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The defining feature of masonry is that it supports mixed aspect ratios. That's its whole thing. If you aren't mixing landscape and portrait images, you shouldn't be using masonry layout.
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The defining feature of masonry is that it supports mixed aspect ratios. That's its whole thing. If you aren't mixing landscape and portrait images, you shouldn't be using masonry layout.
Masonry layout fixes one of the dimensions. That means either portrait or landscape images will look visibly smaller (less detailed, more ignorable, etc) than those of the inverse aspect ratio, because their longer side must be the same length as the latter’s shorter side. This has real UX consequences. What masonry works best with is images of different aspect ratios but the same orientation.