I spent two weeks last winter cataloging rim fragments in a cold storeroom, each one more severe than the last. The lesson was not poverty of means; it was discipline. One black sentence could hold the edge of a bowl while the middle stayed open for breath, food, and thought.
The margin is doing the work
Most digital pages behave as if silence were a defect to patch. The better question is what a reader can finish in her own mind. When the frame is strong, a single line, a measured date, and a clay-colored field can carry more authority than a wall of panels.