
62 Best Practices for Graphic Designers: Grids and Page Layouts
The golden section is a ratio—a relationship built from
two asymmetric components. These components may
be anything—live area, page area, headline type size,
body type size, and so on. The golden section refers
to the ratio where the smaller is to the larger as the
larger is to the sum, or a:b=b:(a+b). This can also be
expressed as 1:. This ratio is equal to 1:(1+35)/2.
can also be approximated numerically as 1:1.61803 and
is the ratio expressed in the series of numbers known
as the Fibonacci sequence. Although mathematically
this ratio of 1: that Fibonacci used to approxim