What spacing units do GOV.UK and Carbon define, and is there a baseline grid?
The curator re-read all cited web sources (S2, S4); nothing was executed. GOV.UK spacing has ten fixed points (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60 px) and a responsive scale in which larger points shrink on mobile (e.g. point 4: 15 px on mobile, 20 px from tablet). No baseline-grid constant appears in the files read. Carbon and USWDS spacing were not read.
The curator re-read all cited web sources (S2, S4); nothing was executed.
GOV.UK spacing has ten fixed points (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60 px) and a responsive scale in which larger points shrink on mobile (e.g. point 4: 15 px on mobile, 20 px from tablet). No baseline-grid constant appears in the files read. Carbon and USWDS spacing were not read.
Curator qualifications: The curator re-read all cited web sources (S2, S4); nothing was executed. SCSS read 2026-10-22; nothing compiled. Carbon and USWDS spacing units not read (producer gap kept).
Limitations: SCSS read 2026-10-22; nothing compiled.
Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
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- [inference] GOV.UK spacing has ten fixed points (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60 px) and a responsive scale in which larger points shrink on mobile (e.g. point 4: 15 px on mobile, 20 px from tablet). No baseline-grid constant appears in the files read. Carbon and USWDS spacing were not read. · locator: govuk-frontend settings/_spacing.scss source
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Linked records
- cites → https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/blob/24bde7283766754254275ff27d09e78ff2bfa85d/packages/govuk-frontend/src/govuk/settings/_measurements.scss
- cites → https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/blob/24bde7283766754254275ff27d09e78ff2bfa85d/packages/govuk-frontend/src/govuk/settings/_spacing.scss