Lately, I’ve been obsessed with white space and using it in my Breeze page designs. Obsessed enough to dedicate an entry to it. 
Here’s a quick introduction to white space:
White space, also known as negative space, is the term describing open space between design elements. It can be between letters, words, or paragraphs of text; space in and outside of graphics, and between all of the elements of the page. It is essential for providing spatial relationships between visual items, and actually guides your reader’s eye from one point to another.
White space takes on an added importance on the web because more of a strain is placed on the eyes than with print material. You’ll find that going through the same amount of web pages as print pages can be more visually demanding, one of the reasons being that you usually find yourself staring up at monitor flickering pixels coarser than printed ink. White space provides our brains with much-needed breathing room to absorb the material displayed before us.
It’s imptortant to remember there are two kinds of white space:
- Active white space is space that’s deliberately left blank to better structure the page and emphasize different areas of content.
- Passive white space is empty space around the outside of the page or blank areas inside the content that result from a poor design.
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