If you're starting a web project, you're probably starting with a CSS reset, and for most of us, that means reaching for a trusted community solution - dropping it in and moving on. If you're building a design system, though, that habit may be working against you.
The existing solutions
The community reset ecosystem is genuinely good. Each tool approaches the browser compatibility problem from a slightly different angle. Some examples include:
Eric Meyer's Reset is a classic: it zeros out margins, padding, and font sizes across every element, giving you a completely blank slate. It's minimal and predictable, which made it influential.
Normalize.css smooths over inconsistencies while preserving the ones that are actually useful.
