Spacing scale: where do your spacing tokens live? (audit from the Rhythmguard benchmark)
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# Spacing scale: where do your spacing tokens live? (audit from the Rhythmguard benchmark)
Hi. I maintain [stylelint-plugin-rhythmguard](https://github.com/PetriLahdelma/stylelint-plugin-rhythmguard), a Stylelint rule that checks spacing values against a project's own scale. To keep it quiet on code I do not control, I run it against public design systems on pinned commits and publish the numbers. This repository is one of them, and I would rather you saw the audit here than in a report first.
**What was run.** `npx rhythmguard audit . --scale auto` at `3762086` over `components`. Hairlines of one pixel or less, percentages, and generated or test paths are excluded. Anyone can reproduce it in a checkout of that commit.
**What it found.** The audit could not find a spacing token set here (it looks for `--space-*` / `--spacing-*` custom properties, Sass `$spacer` / `$spacing-*` variables and maps, or a Tailwind `--spacing` base), so it measured against a default 4px scale instead. Against that default it reported 5 literal values, a number that says more about my token discovery than about your CSS, so I am not treating it as a finding.
**The ask.** If you can point me at where the spacing scale is defined (a token file, a Sass map, a package), I will teach the tool to read it, re-run the audit on the real scale, and post the result here. If spacing is intentionally not on a scale, saying so is just as useful and I will mark the row that way.
The row for this repository will appear in a periodic "State of Spacing" table in the Rhythmguard repository, with this issue linked. If you would rather not be listed, say so here and I will remove it.
Feel free to close this if it is not useful. Thanks for the CSS.
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Research direction
Reproduce `npx rhythmguard audit . --scale auto` at commit `3762086`, focusing on `components`, then search the repository for the spacing-token forms named in the issue. Done means identifying the token file, Sass map, or package that defines the spacing scale, or confirming that spacing is intentionally not tokenized.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- design
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100