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Typography Essentials
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Typography Essentials

by Ina Saltz
July 2009
Beginner
208 pages
5h 24m
English
Rockport Publishers
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THE PAGE88 The multicolumn text grid

GRID SYSTEMS FORMATTED TO CONTAIN TEXT and images can take many forms and be multifunctional. They should be flexible enough to accommodate all possible situations in the case of a complex document or project. Grids are invaluable in organizing text and other visual elements and in creating a comfortable environment for the reader. Depending on the size of the vessel (page or screen) and the size, leading, and weight of the text, multicolumn grids may contain as many as twelve columns (as in the well-known grid used by Willi Fleckhaus for the German magazine Twen) or as few as two columns. The width of the column may vary, but principles of legibility (optimum line length and character count) should be observed. ...

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