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Deliberate Alignment

MUST

MUST: Deliberate alignment to grid/baseline/edges/optical centers—no accidental placement

Every element aligns with something intentionally

Bad

Good

Why it matters

Nothing should be randomly placed. Every element should visibly align with another element, a grid line, or have a clear relationship to its neighbors. This creates visual harmony and helps users scan content efficiently.

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.