diff --git a/src/vxfw/Padding.zig b/src/vxfw/Padding.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..070a1b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vxfw/Padding.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+const vaxis = @import("../main.zig");
+
+const Allocator = std.mem.Allocator;
+
+const vxfw = @import("vxfw.zig");
+
+const Padding = @This();
+const PadValues = struct {
+    left: u16 = 0,
+    right: u16 = 0,
+    top: u16 = 0,
+    bottom: u16 = 0,
+};
+
+child: vxfw.Widget,
+padding: PadValues = .{},
+
+/// Vertical padding will be divided by 2 to approximate equal padding
+pub fn all(padding: u16) PadValues {
+    return .{
+        .left = padding,
+        .right = padding,
+        .top = padding / 2,
+        .bottom = padding / 2,
+    };
+}
+
+pub fn horizontal(padding: u16) PadValues {
+    return .{
+        .left = padding,
+        .right = padding,
+    };
+}
+
+pub fn vertical(padding: u16) PadValues {
+    return .{
+        .top = padding,
+        .bottom = padding,
+    };
+}
+
+pub fn widget(self: *const Padding) vxfw.Widget {
+    return .{
+        .userdata = @constCast(self),
+        .eventHandler = typeErasedEventHandler,
+        .drawFn = typeErasedDrawFn,
+    };
+}
+
+fn typeErasedEventHandler(ptr: *anyopaque, ctx: *vxfw.EventContext, event: vxfw.Event) anyerror!void {
+    const self: *const Padding = @ptrCast(@alignCast(ptr));
+    return self.child.handleEvent(ctx, event);
+}
+
+fn typeErasedDrawFn(ptr: *anyopaque, ctx: vxfw.DrawContext) Allocator.Error!vxfw.Surface {
+    const self: *const Padding = @ptrCast(@alignCast(ptr));
+    return self.draw(ctx);
+}
+
+pub fn draw(self: *const Padding, ctx: vxfw.DrawContext) Allocator.Error!vxfw.Surface {
+    const pad = self.padding;
+    if (pad.left > 0 or pad.right > 0)
+        std.debug.assert(ctx.max.width != null);
+    if (pad.top > 0 or pad.bottom > 0)
+        std.debug.assert(ctx.max.height != null);
+    const inner_min: vxfw.Size = .{
+        .width = ctx.min.width -| (pad.right + pad.left),
+        .height = ctx.min.height -| (pad.top + pad.bottom),
+    };
+
+    const max_width: ?u16 = if (ctx.max.width) |max|
+        max -| (pad.right + pad.left)
+    else
+        null;
+    const max_height: ?u16 = if (ctx.max.height) |max|
+        max -| (pad.top + pad.bottom)
+    else
+        null;
+
+    const inner_max: vxfw.MaxSize = .{
+        .width = max_width,
+        .height = max_height,
+    };
+
+    const child_surface = try self.child.draw(ctx.withConstraints(inner_min, inner_max));
+
+    const children = try ctx.arena.alloc(vxfw.SubSurface, 1);
+    children[0] = .{
+        .surface = child_surface,
+        .z_index = 0,
+        .origin = .{ .row = pad.top, .col = pad.left },
+    };
+
+    const size = .{
+        .width = child_surface.size.width + (pad.right + pad.left),
+        .height = child_surface.size.height + (pad.top + pad.bottom),
+    };
+
+    // Create the padding surface
+    return .{
+        .size = size,
+        .widget = self.widget(),
+        .buffer = &.{},
+        .children = children,
+    };
+}
+
+test Padding {
+    const Text = @import("Text.zig");
+    // Will be height=1, width=3
+    const text: Text = .{ .text = "abc" };
+
+    const padding: Padding = .{
+        .child = text.widget(),
+        .padding = horizontal(1),
+    };
+
+    var arena = std.heap.ArenaAllocator.init(std.testing.allocator);
+    defer arena.deinit();
+    const ucd = try vaxis.Unicode.init(arena.allocator());
+    vxfw.DrawContext.init(&ucd, .unicode);
+
+    // Center expands to the max size. It must therefore have non-null max width and max height.
+    // These values are asserted in draw
+    const ctx: vxfw.DrawContext = .{
+        .arena = arena.allocator(),
+        .min = .{},
+        .max = .{ .width = 10, .height = 10 },
+    };
+
+    const pad_widget = padding.widget();
+
+    const surface = try pad_widget.draw(ctx);
+    // Padding does not produce any drawable cells
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(0, surface.buffer.len);
+    // Padding has 1 child
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(1, surface.children.len);
+    const child = surface.children[0];
+    // Padding is the child size + padding
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(child.surface.size.width + 2, surface.size.width);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(0, child.origin.row);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(1, child.origin.col);
+}
+
+test "refAllDecls" {
+    std.testing.refAllDecls(@This());
+}
diff --git a/src/vxfw/vxfw.zig b/src/vxfw/vxfw.zig
index 43a60d4..201da17 100644
--- a/src/vxfw/vxfw.zig
+++ b/src/vxfw/vxfw.zig
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ pub const Center = @import("Center.zig");
 pub const FlexColumn = @import("FlexColumn.zig");
 pub const FlexRow = @import("FlexRow.zig");
 pub const ListView = @import("ListView.zig");
+pub const Padding = @import("Padding.zig");
 pub const RichText = @import("RichText.zig");
 pub const Text = @import("Text.zig");
 pub const TextField = @import("TextField.zig");