One habit that makes a Framer template read as expensive: pick one spacing unit and let everything snap to it.
I work off an 8px base and only allow gaps of 8, 16, 24, 40, 64. No 13, no 27, no eyeballed one-offs. It feels rigid for about ten minutes, then it becomes the difference between a page that looks designed and one that looks assembled.
The real trick is setting those as variables before you place a single section, not after. Retrofitting spacing is where the hours vanish. Decide the rhythm up front and sections just drop in and sit right, and anyone remixing the template inherits that discipline for free.
19 years in and this is still the first thing I lock before layout. What is your base unit?
One habit that makes a Framer template read as expensive: pick one spacing unit and let everything snap to it.
I work off an 8px base and only allow gaps of 8, 16, 24, 40, 64. No 13, no 27, no eyeballed one-offs. It feels rigid for about ten minutes, then it becomes the difference between a page that looks designed and one that looks assembled.
The real trick is setting those as variables before you place a single section, not after. Retrofitting spacing is where the hours vanish. Decide the rhythm up front and sections just drop in and sit right, and anyone remixing the template inherits that discipline for free.
19 years in and this is still the first thing I lock before layout. What is your base unit?
