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title: "Spacing System - Air Market"
description: "If the gaps in your design are picked by feel and never quite match, this helps you set a scale. You start from one base unit and get steps, plus rules for when each step applies. Reach for it when y…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/spacing-system"
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[Air Market](/) / [Design](/category/design) / Spacing System

Skill by [MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

# Spacing System

Stop guessing padding numbers and settle on a scale

## What this does

If the gaps in your design are picked by feel and never quite match, this helps you set a scale. You start from one base unit and get steps, plus rules for when each step applies. Reach for it when you are tidying up padding and margins. Page-level columns and gutters are handled by a separate layout-grid skill.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Build a spacing scale from one base unit
- Decide which step to use where
- Standardise padding and margins across a design

## Information

**Spacing System at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [MC Dean](/@owl-listener) |
| Category | [Design](/category/design) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 1 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [Owl-Listener/designer-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/ui-design/skills/spacing-system) |
| GitHub stars | 2,144 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Spacing System and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Spacing System's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e |
| Content hash | bb15f6f1345a7dd5bd2db65411dbefaaa31d88211367d4f1523fdefc8d6705d5 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/blob/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/ui-design/skills/spacing-system/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Spacing System](/security/spacing-system)

## About Spacing System

This skill creates a spacing scale from a base unit, along with rules for when each step in the scale applies. The rules matter as much as the numbers: a scale without guidance on where each step belongs still leaves every gap up for negotiation.

Reach for it when you are standardising padding and margins. If what you need is page-level columns and gutters instead, the description points you to `layout-grid`.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Spacing System safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Spacing System and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 20e34c4a587e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/spacing-system.

### How do I install Spacing System?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/spacing-system on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/ui-design/skills/spacing-system. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Design listings](/category/design)
- [Everything by MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/spacing-system>