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Layout Essentials
100 Design Principles for Using Grids
Beth Tondreau
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Layout Essentials
100 Design Principles for Using Grids
Beth Tondreau
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Adhering to certain layout and grids standards and principles is important for any job from brochures, to annual reports, to posters, to websites, to publications. However, knowing how to bend the rules and make certain grids work for the job at hand takes skill.
This book outlines and demonstrates basic layout/grid guidelines and rules through 100 entries including choosing a typeface, striving for rhythm and balance with type, combining typefaces, using special characters and kerning and legibility. These essentials of grid design are critical to the success of any job.
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DesignSubtopic
Graphic DesignWorking Grids
SINGLE COLUMN
11. Give the Subject Matter a Face
When choosing an appropriate typeface for a page or spread of a single-column grid, consider the subject matter. Some faces are classic and neutral and work with most material, while other faces give a point of view and nearly mimic the topic. A typeface can help set an attitude or it can recede discreetly. The type area of the page, type size, and leading (interlinear space) affect the overall fit of the text. No matter how the material fills the given or desired space, proportions are important.
Project
For the Love of Animals
For the Love of Animals
Client
Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company
Design
Fritz Metsch
Fritz Metsch
A simple and elegant page with neutral typography displays restraint and concentrates on readability.
12. Design with Ample Margins
If a project contains many pages, a good practice is to leave a gutter margin large enough to keep the text from getting lost in the binding. When the project is a book, a spread that looks proportionate on screen or in laser printouts can change radically once the book is printed and bound. The amount of spatial loss in the gutter depends on the length of the book or brochure as well as the binding method. Whether the piece is perfect bound, sewn, or saddle stitched, itâs a good idea to make certain that nothing goes missing.
BINDING METHODS AND MARGINS
Depending on the number of pages in a project, some binding methods cause type to get lost in the gutters more than others. A project with a sewn or notch binding can be opened flatter than a perfect-bound (glued) project. Type may get lost in the gutter of a perfect-bound project and readers may be reluctant to crack the binding when pulling the book open. If the project is spiral bound, leave enough space in the gutter for the spiral holes.
Project
Sauces
Sauces
Client
John Wiley and Sons
John Wiley and Sons
Design
BTDNYC
BTDNYC
Eight hundredâplus pages of hard-core cooking information begs forâand receivesâhealthy portions of gutter space.
Images are from Sauces, published by John Wiley & Sons, © 2008 by James Peterson. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
13. Work in Proportion
Keep proportions in mind, even for the page foot, and leave plenty of space for your page number.
THE GOLDEN RATIO
Designers often work by eye and instinct to determine the most handsome proportions. They then find that other people working ...