Drew Ink The year

Gutter

The space between two columns, and the only place a gap between them is allowed to be.

Gutter: a drawn diagram with the gutter marked in vermilion.
Gutter, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-09.

Near it

GridColumn gridMarginWhite space

What it is made of

what it isthe space between columns, which belongs to neither of them
measured on our own sitethere is ONE spacing token, --pad: clamp(1.5rem, 4vw, 3.5rem), and it is the page rail and the gutter bothmeasured on ink.css, which is the whole of this site's CSS: one stylesheet, 95 rules, 2 media queries. A site with one spacing value has no relationship between its gutter and its margin to get wrong, which is a decision and not an oversight; it is also why this entry cannot show the two differing