fix: design QA sidebar spacing and alignment

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Summary

Fixes from design QA (sidebar spacing and alignment):

• Sub-nav horizontal padding → 28px per Figma
• Remove extra bottom padding on card wrapper (green padding issue)
• Remove gap between top link items in sidebar
• Section spacing at 24px between nav groups

Test plan

• Sidebar items left-aligned with logo
• No extra padding below content card
• Sub-nav padding matches Figma (28px)
• Top links (Documentation/Dev Guide/API) have no extra gap
• Build and tests pass

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• packages/chronicle/src/themes/default/Layout.module.css

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR refines layout spacing and flexbox styling in the default theme's Layout.module.css. Changes include converting .topLinks to a flex-column layout, zeroing .cardWrapper padding, adjusting .subNav spacing variables, tightening .navGroupHeader spacing, and adding a new rule to reset h3 margins within sidebar nav-group elements.

Changes

Default Theme Layout Styling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Layout spacing and flex adjustments packages/chronicle/src/themes/default/Layout.module.css	.topLinks adopts a flex-column layout with zero gap. .cardWrapper padding is simplified to 0. .subNav spacing variables are updated to --rs-space-8. .navGroupHeader margins and padding are tightened. A new nested selector targets h3 elements within sidebar nav-group classes to zero their margins.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The pull request title directly and specifically describes the main changes: design QA fixes for sidebar spacing and alignment.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is clearly related to the changeset, providing detailed context about design QA fixes with specific pixel values and a test plan aligned with the CSS changes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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