White space refers to the empty areas in a design that are used to separate and group design elements. It provides visual breathing room and breaks up text and graphics, making a page less cramped. While sometimes called "negative space", white space is not wasted - it can improve readability at the micro level by adjusting spacing between letters and lines, and convey quality at the macro level through the overall spacing. Good use of white space focuses on user experience and content.
2. White space is the empty
spaces in a design. White
space is used to separate
disparate design elements
and group similar ones.
White space is the lack of
graphics or text in the
layout.
What is?
3. White space is not always “white” — it is the empty parts
of the page, but if the page has a different background
color that will be the color of the white space.
4. White space provides visual breathing room for the eye. It breaks
up text and graphics. Add white space to make a page less
cramped, confusing, or overwhelming.
7. Perhaps it is because the terms used to
describe white space sound negative. White
space is nothing. It's the absence of text;
the absence of images. White space is
emptiness.
It is negative space.
But it's not wasted space.
One of the
hardest concepts
to teach is white space
in design
8. White space at the micro level (leading, kerning,
and tracking) can help improveor destroy the
legibility of a Web page. If you havea lot of
content you need to get across in a small
amount of space, you can increase the leading
or tracking to make the text easier to read.
Legibility
White space at the macro level (spacing around
the biggestobjects on the page) can convey a
senseof elegance or down-marketquality to a
design. The morewhite space there is the more
expensive and high-quality a design may seem.
Tone
17. a good approachto using whitespaceis to thinkabout what you would
like to see in a page.
Thinking about improvinguserexperience and focusingon content is
always a good wayto go when designing.
Whitespace can certainlyhelp you deliver the experience that your
client’s readers will enjoy, which usuallyleaves yourclient happywith
the work you’ve done.
Conclusion