
10 Best Practices for Graphic Designers: Grids and Page Layouts
and grids are the most basic and impor-
tant tools to utilize. Putting information
in a hierarchy, groups, or columns, or
utilizing any of the many layout and grid
tools available, helps us, as graphic
designers, design in a clear and useful
way. We can embellish our designs and
make them more appealing, and therefore
draw the reader in by incorporating fonts
and colors and images. But the initial
groundwork of a solid, thoughtful layout
is the key element that holds the design
together—and makes order out
of ambiguity.
We wrote this book to be a tool to help
designers achieve ...