Messenger — Design Score: 78/100 (grade B)
Strong typography & color foundation (80–86), but spacing grid breaks at 75% of instances and body text is too tight—users strain to read paragraphs.
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The four measured dimensions
- Typography & Hierarchy: 80/100
- Color & Contrast: 86/100
- Spacing & Layout: 62/100
- Motion & Polish: 80/100
What we measured
- Typography & Hierarchy — type ladder rhythm: 3.81× · 1.11× · 1.27× · 1.07× (23.7/35)
- Typography & Hierarchy — weight contrast: [400, 500, 600, 700] (spread 300) (20.0/20)
- Typography & Hierarchy — body line-height: 1.20 (6.0/15)
- Typography & Hierarchy — heading line-height: 1.06 (10.0/10)
- Typography & Hierarchy — size discipline: 5 (20.0/20)
- Color & Contrast — body text contrast (WCAG): 16.71:1 (30.0/30)
- Color & Contrast — primary button contrast: 4.82:1 (10.0/10)
- Color & Contrast — accent discipline: 3 (20.0/20)
- Color & Contrast — surface coverage: 61% dominant (16.0/20)
- Color & Contrast — scheme consistency: light (10.0/20)
- Spacing & Layout — spacing grid: 8px grid · 65% confidence (22.8/35)
- Spacing & Layout — grid adherence: 3/12 on 8px (6.2/25)
- Spacing & Layout — breathing room: 0.39 density · dense (17.6/25)
- Spacing & Layout — structure & responsive: 2 breakpoints (15.0/15)
- Motion & Polish — motion tokens: 200ms dominant (25.0/25)
- Motion & Polish — choreography: 0 reveal candidates (0.0/20)
Every line above is read from the live DOM — the exact contrast ratio, the detected spacing grid, the forced hover states — not an AI's guess from a screenshot.
Top fixes
- Increase body line-height from 1.20 to 1.50+
- Lock spacing to 8px grid: audit & enforce remaining 75% of gaps
- Add entrance choreography on page load and scroll reveal
The comprehensive report — every fix with why + the exact how-to — is part of Mozaika Pro.
An automated measurement of Messenger's publicly-visible design (color, type, spacing, motion) — not affiliated with messenger.com. Removal requests: hello@mozaika.design.