Grid (graphic design)

The grid serves as an armature or framework on which a designer can organize graphic elements (images, glyphs, paragraphs, etc.)

[1] After World War II, a number of graphic designers, including Max Bill, Emil Ruder, and Josef Müller-Brockmann, influenced by the modernist ideas of Jan Tschichold's Die neue Typographie (The New Typography), began to question the relevance of the conventional page layout of the time.

In the early 1980s, a reaction against the entrenchment of the grid, particularly its dogmatic use, and association with corporate culture, resulted in some designers rejecting its use in favor of more organic structure.

The typographic grid continues to be taught today, but more as a useful tool for some projects, not as a requirement or starting point for all page design.

Artists used grid systems to layout the content – text and images – in a manner that makes reading and absorption easier.

A page layout grid (shown in white lines) composed of a series of intersecting vertical and horizontal grid lines. The text ( content ) is not part of the grid. The text content is applied to a particular page using the grid " flush left " along the bottom sides and right-hand sides of grid lines. The same grid may be applied to multiple pages using different types of content or different styles of the same content type.
A grid applied within an image (instead of a page) using additional angular lines to guide proportions.