Design with grids in In Design Flashcards
How many columns + rows can you fit on 8.5 x 11” page?
How many columns can fit on half of your area?
8 columns
12 rows
6 sub-columns
What does the size of the gutter correlate to?
Size of body text leading to develop grid fields which will give you flexiblity to change the layout based upon your grid
What is an ‘active corner’?
An active corner lives inside a grid field.
When you place an element on grid field you will place it at top left hand of your grid field
What is grids important?
- It provide the structure that underpins good design.
- Your design will be better if you use a grid
- They take the guesswork out of where to place content
- Establish rhythm and hierarchy
What do you set up once you establish margins, columns and layout grid?
Baseline grid
What is one of the challenges of the grid?
And the main reason we use them?
Grids impose constraints but gives us flexiblity.
Part of using grids well is knowing when to break them
When did grids developed?
- As early at 20th century
- Constructivism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, New Typography
- After 2nd World War, 1950s, 60s, 70s
- Josef Muller-Brockmann
- Wim Crouwel
How do you turn on baseline grids?
CTRL + ALT
View / grids + guides / show document grid
What is document grid?
It is used when you design a chart but not for when you have established your own grid on a base line
What is one thing we want our layout grid to have?
- Give us flexiblity of being able to size our images to different scales
- Maintain their aspect ratio
- Not have to do much cropping of those images
- Easily accomediate a 1-1 or 3-4
Why is baseline an incremented ruler?
- We’ve used this number of 12
- Everything about our paragraph needs to be based on 12 for those paragrahs that we want to be locked to baseline grid
- Meaning leading value plus any space before, plus any space after needs to equal 12. Or multiple of 12.
What are some things you have to consider when you work with overlapping text or picture frames?
The amount of offset should equal baseline grid increment
You will need to ignore text-wrap
What is going to ensure that the copy you copy will cut pasted onto layers it came from?
Paste remembers layers
What do you use when you work with variety of objects?
Object styles
What can simultaneously apply the format to the frame and content to the frame?
Object styles
What do you have to match if you use serif and sans-serif together?
Match x-heights and cap heights of same size
What is the first step in creating your grid?
- Create it through guides
- Layout / Create Guides
- CMD + OPT + ‘
- Grids + Guides: Hide, lock, snap, smart guides
What is a common aspect ratio of Trade Paperback, Magazine, iPad or A4 when determing page size?
- Trade Paperback is 2:3 as it is 6” x 9”
- Magazine, iPad is 3:4 as it is 8 1/4” x 11”
- A4 is 5:7
How can you use common aspect ratios when you develop your layout?
You break the page down into common ratios of elements on page
For ex:
- 4:6 (medium size vertical image)
- 3:2 (smallest horizontal image)
- 2:3 (smallest vertical image)
- 6:4 (largest horizontal)
How do you set up your baseline grid?
- Preferences / Grids
- Grids / Document Grid: Light Gray
- Relative to: Top Margin
- Increment Every: 12 points
- Select Grids in Back
- Align to grid: All lines
What does it mean when you ‘ensure the text columns bottoms out’?
The text doesn’t have an orphan or widow
Margins and columns / Bottom: 6p5
What are some potention problems you can have with baseline grid?
Grids / Relative to: top of page, margin
What is one rule of thumb when you work with aspect ratio?
Control the aspect ratio of your type area
What are some things to remember when you work with text wraps and grids?
- It can wrap both ‘right and left’ sides
- You can chose to ‘ignore text wraps’
- You can apply text frame general options to the wrap
What type of layers works well with grids?
Active corner, grid field, gutters, columns, row, type area, layout grid, text and pictures
How do you combine object styles with grids?
Frame fitting options / Fill Frame Proportionally
Align From Center
How can you use the GAP TOOL with grids?
- It is the Nr. 4 tool
- (looks like opening a gap)*
- Frame Fitting Options / Auto-Fit
- (If checked, content resizes as its frame resizes)*
How can you use the grid in a powerful way?
- After you constructed 6-column grid, with rules
- Draw out 3 boxes, locked to 6-column grid
- Hold LMB+cmd + LEFT or RIGHT arrow
- Duplicate selection: shift + option + click + drag
- Fit frame proportionally
- Use paragraph styles
- Keep options / start paragraph in next frame
- Indents and spacing / last line indent
- Text frame baseline / use custom baseline grid
How can you use the MAKEGRID script?
Scripts / MakeGrid.jsx
- Type in Rows, Columns, Row Gutter, Column Gutter, Frame Type
- Retain Formatting and Contents
- Populate a grid with images for you
What are some other handy tools when you use grids?
Guides & Pasteboard
Guide Options / “Snap to Zone”
What type of functionality can you give guides?
hide, lock, snap, smart, delete all
What are some options of using your rulers?
Right click on ruler
- Ruler Per Spread
- Ruler Per Page
- Ruler On Spine
You have 3 shapes and you want to distribute it evenly.
How can you do this?
Draw 3 shapes
Apply the spacing after you select Distribute Spacing
How do you align text with different leading values?
Paragraph / Only Align First Line to Grid
Paragraphs and Spacing / Align to Grid: First Line Only
