John Kane, A Type Primer, writes: To determine your grid you need to understand the amount of text and images, the kinds of images and text, the levels of meaning and importance, the relationships between test and image the relationship between text/images and reader. Columnar Layout There are columnar arrangements of books (from Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type site): Working from a hang line. From Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type site. Working from a hang line. From Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type site. Modular Grids More complex information, say an annual report (see below) or a book written in multiple...

Aligning text and elements in your composition can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of a design project. The result has to be clean, easy to