diff --git a/styles/default.css b/styles/default.css
index 3ccdc93..48c1850 100644
--- a/styles/default.css
+++ b/styles/default.css
@@ -11,11 +11,24 @@ body {
 	margin: 0 auto;
 }
 
-/* header and footer */
-header {
-	padding: 1rem;
+/* padding */
+header,
+nav,
+article,
+footer {
+	padding-left: 1rem;
+	padding-right: 1rem;
 }
 
+header {
+	padding-top: 1rem;
+}
+
+footer {
+	padding-bottom: 1rem;
+}
+
+/* header and footer */
 #homelink {
 	color: blue;
 	text-decoration: none;
@@ -28,13 +41,13 @@ header {
 	text-decoration: underline;
 }
 
-/* main content */
-main nav {
-	padding: 1rem;
+#copyright {
+	font-size: small;
+	text-align: center;
 }
 
+/* main content */
 article {
-	padding: 1rem;
 	text-align: justify;
 	hyphens: auto;
 	/* about page is janky without this; see
@@ -62,13 +75,6 @@ ol ol ol {
 	list-style: lower-roman
 }
 
-#copyright {
-	font-size: small;
-	text-align: center;
-	margin: 0;
-	padding: 1rem;
-}
-
 @media screen and (min-width: 80ch) {
 	body {
 		border: 3px black solid;