8pt Grid system in XD using a soft grid - Spacing in XD - Descender, Baseline or Blue XD guide?

Hi @David25440450afzs, spacing, vertical rhythm etc all is improved by practice as you know, I suggest you to take screenshots of some professional/top notch designs you like from the sites/products and/or Behance etc galleries and just try to recreate it by lowering down its opacity and using it as a blueprint etc (as an experienced designer I also need to do that from time to time as a great exercise actually 🙂 and I guess you'll see, to keep consistency they usually do their spacing based on the actual visible parts of text and all other elements and they're not too strict about the grid system. We have auto aligning, distributing tools etc which helps us a lot while spacing/aligning elements but sometimes because of some other parameters like visual hierarchy, contrast etc we need to eyeball stuff until it feels right in terms of UI/UX design principles, context etc. So trusting our design eye and tweaking stuff can be very important and also adds a human factor to design I must say (of course I'm not talking about breaking some core design principles, but I'm sure you got what I mean, once you feel like you know the rules well enough to break them, you will anyway 😉) So keep designing, practicing, experimenting and feel free to update us whenever you want to. Happy creating!