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Match Visual & Hit Targets

MUST

MUST: Hit target ≥24px (mobile ≥44px) If visual <24px, expand hit area

If visual target is < 24px, expand hit target to at least 24px

Bad

Good

Why it matters

Small interactive elements are hard to click or tap. While an icon might be 16px visually, its clickable area should be at least 24px on desktop and 44px on mobile. Use padding or pseudo-elements to expand the hit target without changing the visual appearance.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.