
156 Best Practices for Graphic Designers: Grids and Page Layouts
At times, areas of the layout can work on multiple levels.
Content cannot always be clearly broken into categories
as clear as “text” and “image,” and this can create
an engaging relationship between the viewer and the
content. At first, the brain processes all words visually
as the eyes take in the letter combinations, before
they are processed into small sound units and before
these are combined and linked with ideas which give
them meaning to the viewer. This process happens when
reading any text. All text has visual components that
go beyond what is needed purely for the proce ...