Layout essentials [electronic resource] : 100 design principles for using grids / Beth Tondreau.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Beverly, Mass. : Rockport Publishers, c2009.Description: 208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)Other title:
  • Layout essentials : one hundred design principles for using grids
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 686.2/252 22
LOC classification:
  • Z246 .T65 2009eb
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Contents:
Getting started : Elements of a grid -- Basic grid diagrams -- Determine the appropriate grid -- Formatting text -- Hierarchy of information -- Grid and image -- Combining grid, type, and image -- Color -- Space -- Rhythm and flow -- Working grids : Single column -- Two column -- Three column -- Multicolumn -- Modular -- Tables and charts -- Color as a dominant element -- Color as organizing principles -- Horizontal hierarchy -- When type forms the grid -- Filled and functional -- Spacious but not barren -- Seemingly gridless -- Organic shapes -- Swiss grid -- Grid, interrupted -- Grid, reconstructed -- Layered grid -- Grids and motion -- Breaking the rules.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203).

Getting started : Elements of a grid -- Basic grid diagrams -- Determine the appropriate grid -- Formatting text -- Hierarchy of information -- Grid and image -- Combining grid, type, and image -- Color -- Space -- Rhythm and flow -- Working grids : Single column -- Two column -- Three column -- Multicolumn -- Modular -- Tables and charts -- Color as a dominant element -- Color as organizing principles -- Horizontal hierarchy -- When type forms the grid -- Filled and functional -- Spacious but not barren -- Seemingly gridless -- Organic shapes -- Swiss grid -- Grid, interrupted -- Grid, reconstructed -- Layered grid -- Grids and motion -- Breaking the rules.

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