Education, Typography

Background 04.04: Grids

Jason W. Howell
January 1, 2019

Goal

This goal of this doc­u­ment is to estab­lish the con­text for cur­rent course content.

Objective

Com­plete the Back­ground Read­ing and define the Vocab­u­lary spec­i­fied below. Writ­ten, ver­bal and visual iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and uti­liza­tion is required.

Background Reading

  • Bringhurst: Chap­ter 8, p 143–178
  • Kane: Text, p 2–13; Sim­ple Orga­ni­za­tion, p 116–181

Vocabulary

  • Active Cor­ner
  • Base­line Grid
  • Cells
  • Columns
  • Fac­ing Page
  • Field
  • Folio
  • Footer
  • Fore-edge
  • Golden Sec­tion
  • Grid
  • Guides
  • Gut­ter
  • Header
  • Inter­nal Gutter
  • ISO Paper System
  • Mar­gin
  • Pas­sive Corner
  • Rows (Grid and Table)
  • Run­ning Foot
  • Sin­gle Page
  • Sink­age
  • Spine
  • Tables
  • Textblock

Bibliography

Bringhurst, Robert, The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style. 3rd Edi­tion, Hart­ley and Marks Pub­lish­ers: 2005. ISBN-10: 0881792063; ISBN-13: 978–0881792065

Dab­ner, David; The New Graphic Design School; John Wiley & Sons Inc; Fourth Ed, 2009; ISBN-10: 0470466510 ISBN-13: 978–0470466513

Kane, John; A Type Primer;Pren­tice Hall. 2003. ISBN-10: 013099071X; ISBN-13: 978–0130990716

Kane, John; A Type Primer; Lawrence King; 2nd Revised edi­tion: 2011; ISBN-10: 1856696448; ISBN-13: 978–1856696449