The app had FIFTY-FOUR distinct font sizes and forty of them sat between
0.58rem and 0.95rem — a three-pixel band. The most-used size was 0.78rem, so
body copy was 12.5px. That is not a hierarchy, it is a fog of small grey text,
and it is the main reason the screen read as a decade old: nothing could be
emphasised because everything was already the same size.
Nine steps now, with real jumps. 12px is the floor and is reserved for
uppercase eyebrows — every one of the 53 declarations sitting there that was
not an eyebrow has been lifted off it. The surfaces people actually read — the
trail's entries, WhatsApp bubbles, field values, table cells — are at body size
rather than meta size.
The hairline cages are gone with them. The lead metrics and the overview KPIs
were seven equal cells in a 1px grid, every value the same size as its label,
which left the reader to do the prioritising themselves on every lead. They are
separated by whitespace now, values at 22px against 12px labels, with premium
and commission larger again: size does the prioritising instead.
Panels breathe at 32px rather than 24, radii went 10/14 -> 12/16/20, borders
dropped to the softer line, and the stage rail, the queue table and the cards
were rebuilt on the same spacing rhythm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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