The GRID

With the endless number of typographical solutions to compositions, its no wonder why the use of a grid was developed. Grids work to break up space into units to arrange content. The term skeleton, seems to describe the grid most accurately. The grid acts as a skeleton to give shape to a composition, to be the base of which all elements are derived. Yet the grid can and should be broken if needed. When grids are used consistantaly throughout a piece of literature, they give the piece support which allows the viewer to fall into a pattern of readable text. The pattern developed makes reading more comfortable and less of a challenge. Just as if you were to remove the skeleton of a human, removing the grid from a compostion can destroy a compostion. Designers should always make use of the grid yet if needed BREAK it.