Incremental leading
In editorial design, there is a technique used for sidenotes and boxouts that aligns to the baseline grid, or vertical rhythm. It’s called incremental leading.
View ArticleCompose to a Vertical Rhythm
On the Web, vertical rhythm is contributed to by three factors: font size, line height and margin or padding. All of these factors must calculated with care in order that the rhythm is maintained.
View ArticlephiRatio Proportions Calculator
phiRatio is an iOS tool to calculate different types of proportions. Not only calculates golden proportions, it also calculates 4:3, 16:9 and 3:2 ratios.
View ArticleGridbooks
A collection of books and pads featuring grids for web design and online campaign development.
View ArticleKhoi Vinh — On the grid
Web and interactive designer Khoi Vinh speaks about his process and using the grid.
View ArticleRethinking CSS Grids
Mark Boulton pulls together some of his thoughts and concerns regarding CSS grids and how they could (or, maybe, should) be created.
View ArticleHow You Make A Grid
A PDF written by Andrew Maher to help you design grids and to give you the resources to delve further into the grid world.
View ArticleThe 960 Grid System Made Easy
This article is for web designers and front-end web developers who are interested in grid-based layout systems but are at a loss on how to decipher them.
View ArticlePhotoshop Grid Templates
A small collection of grid templates for various devices and common design scenarios.
View ArticleThe Square Grid
A simple CSS framework for designers and developers, based on 35 equal-width columns.
View ArticleFluid Baseline Grid System
An HTML5 & CSS3 development kit that provides a solid foundation to quickly design websites with ease.
View ArticleAn Initiation in Typography
In this fascinating initiation into visual design and typography. The first chapter deals with proportions: grid systems and typographical measurements.
View ArticleNew RSS Feed
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View ArticleBetter Grids for a Responsive World
I built a proof-of-concept that supported both modular scales and uniform columns. However, I discovered that moving different sized columns around was nearly impossible, and the code was clumsy.
View ArticleA New Canon
As with the printed word, the word on screen would benefit from some rules of form; a new canon of page construction for the web.
View ArticleBasel;ne
Basel;ne is a typographic experiment focused on vertical rythm and real baseline grid for modern browsers.
View ArticleGuideGuide
GuideGuide is a Photoshop extension that allows you to easily create grids with guides.
View ArticleGrids, Design Guidelines, Broken Rules, and the Streets of New York City
What do the streets of New York City have to do with web and graphic design? For better or worse, the grid.
View ArticleMarcus Gärde Grid System
A new method developed by Marcus Gärde to produce grid systems based on old books and scrolls.
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