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The secret to any good design lies in the way its visual elements are organized and positioned in relation to each other. This is exactly what layout design is all about.

Layout gives meaning to your design and makes it look visually appealing. It helps maintain balance from page to page or slide to slide.

An important component of layout design are grids. Grids are the backbone of all layouts, infographics and presentations. When you are designing on an online editor like , you are using grids without even knowing it. Our in-house designers use grids to create the templates you love.

Layout design involves using one grid or a group of grids, depending on what needs to be achieved. Believe it or not, grids also exist to help you break the rules.
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Let's look at all the kinds of grids that exist in the layout design toolkit, starting with the anatomy of grids so you can better understand them.

Layout Design: The Parts of a Grid

The anatomy of a grid is made up of several parts. Not every part is present in every grid; it depends on the sort of grid. Here we will look at the most important parts of a grid.

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You might recognize many of these terms from document creation programs like Microsoft Word, Google Docs or Pages. The way your document looks is defined by these sections of a grid, including the margins, the header, the footer and page numbers.

Format

The format is the full area where the final design will be laid out. In print design, the format is the page and in web design the format is the browser window.

Margin

Margins are the empty spaces between the edges of the format and the content. The size of the margins is what gives the content a general shape, usually a rectangle.

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Flowlines

Flowlines are horizontal lines that separate the different sections of a grid into parallel bands. They help the reader follow the content of the layout. Flowlines also create stopping points, or edges for the elements to be placed on. Some flowlines are called hang lines and others are called baselines.

Modules

Modules are the building blocks of any grid. They are the spaces created between the flowlines and vertical lines. Vertical groups of modules together create columns. Horizontal groups create rows.

Spatial Zones or Regions

Groups of adjacent modules in vertical and horizontal areas create spatial zones or regions. A vertical region can hold a block of text, a horizontal region can hold a video. Regions can be organized proportionally or used to create overlapping zones.

Columns

Columns are vertical spatial zones or regions that fit fully from the top to the bottom margin.

Rows

Rows are horizontal spatial zones that fit fully from the left to right margin.

Gutters

The spaces between rows and columns are called gutters. These should always be equal between columns or rows, in order to maintain a visual balance.

Markers

Markers are areas inside the running header or footer that mark the exact place where repeating information is placed from page to page.

Types of Grids

Layout grids are used for design projects that have as little as one page or as many as hundreds. These are the kind of grids that organize elements inside a space. Word documents, for example, have a grid, they just aren't always visible. Layout grids help designers position text and images in a way that looks coherent and easy to follow.

Most layout editors, online or otherwise, have a tool called "snap to grid." These are blue or red lines that show up when elements are being moved inside the design. They let the designers know when the edges are lining up according to the grid or when it's centered. More complex layout editors will show the distance between elements so that they can be positioned proportionately.

All layout grids can be designed in two ways: symmetric or asymmetric. Symmetric grids follow a center line. The vertical margins are equal to each other, as are the horizontal ones. Columns in a symmetric layout are also the same width. In an asymmetric layout, both margins and columns can be different from one another. It is important to always look for balance when using an asymmetric layout.

Let's look at five kinds of layout grids; manuscript, column, baseline, modular and hierarchical.

Manuscript Grids are used in documents, ebooks, pdfs and presentations with lots of text.

Column Grids are used for magazines to organize content in columns so it is easier to read.

Baseline Grids are a bit more technical and are defined by the line in which the text sits. This grid creates a good reading rhythm for any design with lots of text.

Modular grids are like a checkerboard that can display many things for easy access.

Hierarchical grids are mostly used on websites, organizing content according to their importance.

Manuscript Grid

A Word document or a presentation template will always have a manuscript grid. Sometimes these grids are invisible, although they can be toggled to show up on documents editors like Word. Manuscript grids in a text document separate the header, the footer and the space on the edges (margins). The manuscript layout creates a rectangle inside the page (format), like a bounding box for text.

The Manuscript Grid is the foundation for all magazine, newspaper, ebook and all text-based design. The manuscript grid layout design is set up on the first page. The rest of the pages will follow the same measurements. It's good practice to keep the manuscript grid consistent inside one document design. Even if there are elements bleeding off the edge, like a shape or a photograph, the grid will still be there to help keep a good balance for the entire design.

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Column Grid

Column grids are used to organize elements into columns. Magazines use column grids to place the text in easy-to-read sections. Some academic textbooks also use them. Column grids are used inside websites as well, like in online newspapers or blogs.

Column grids can have as little as two columns or as many as six or more, but that is not very common.

Text and images in a column grid are placed following the vertical lines and flowlines that make up the columns. Images can be placed inside one column, or across two or more to create a different visual layout. The spacing between columns (gutters) should be proportional and consistent throughout the entire document.

A symmetric column grid has all columns the same width, while an asymmetric grid will have some columns proportionally thinner or wider than others.

Printed newspapers usually use a symmetric column grid to organize their stories.

A great example of an asymmetric column grid is the general layout of a blog post (beneath the header). If you look at a this example blog post below, you can easily see that it is made up of two columns of different widths: the blog post content and the sidebar.

The magazine example below uses a three column grid with proportional widths. The title and subtitle take up the space of all three columns while some highlighted text takes up the space of two columns.

Modular Grid

A modular grid is similar to a column grid in that it has columns, but it also has rows. This kind of grid is used when there are more elements to organize and a column grid isn't enough. Newspapers use column and modular grids to organize the stories comfortably and easy to read. Modular grids have equal size modules. This makes it easier to "break the rules" and use the spatial zones in different ways.

Modular grids are also great for laying out forms, charts and schedules. They are also used a lot in e-commerce websites. Your phone homepage that shows all the apps, has a modular grid. Instagram also uses a modular grid to show your feed.

Baseline Grid

A baseline is the line where text sits. Leading is the spacing between baselines. A baseline grid can be applied to any of the grids mentioned above. Using a baseline grid will give a flowing rhythm to the text. It will also give the headings and subheadings a proportional space in relation to the body text, making them more pleasing to the reader.

There is a baseline grid in something you used a lot during school and might still be using now. Lined notebooks have a baseline grid. It's no wonder teachers always wanted us to write on notebook paper instead of white paper. It kept a good rhythm in our written assignments. Unless of course our handwriting was really tiny or really huge, and then the rhythm went out the door.

If you look closely at this piece of written notebook paper you will see that it also has a document grid that creates margins. Grids are pretty much everywhere that text and images are laid out on. Why not challenge yourself to find them?

Hierarchical Grids

Hierarchical grids are mostly used in web design. The purpose of a hierarchical grid design is to organize elements in order of importance. It is still called a grid because the modules are still set up inside a measured manuscript grid.

A hierarchical grid can be set up freestyle, or with a modular grid as a guide. Having the knowledge to set up a balanced hierarchical grid without a guiding modular grid, takes years of practice. This is why designers create website templates for non-designers to simply place their information in. Even seasoned designers use already built templates to save precious time.

In their move to digital platforms, newspapers moved from the usual symmetric column grids to hierarchy grids with columns inside the spatial zones.

A Little Design History Trivia

Before the age of computers, layout grids were drawn on mockups with blue pen. Every single line of the grid had to be measured and drawn by hand with T-rulers. If designers wanted to use a standard grid, they could use grid templates printed in blue ink that were placed underneath thick tracing paper.

The designer then set up their layout on top. Images were drawn as rectangles or squares with two criss-cross lines from corner to corner. Computer based layout editors mirror the layout grid design practices from years ago. Blue ink was used because it didn't show up on the pre-print films.

How Do Designers Use Hierarchy in Web Design?

Hierarchy is a condition in which elements are set up in order of importance. The word comes from the concept of royalty: the king and queen are first, then the prince and princess, then the dukes and so forth. Web designers use hierarchy to make sure the most important information is seen first. Call to actions and special notices are the first to stand out.

It depends on the kind of website that is being designed. For example, an online magazine or blog might use an hierarchical design on its homepage, showcasing articles in different sizes. Using headlines in different font sizes as well. E-commerce websites use landing pages that have one or two calls to action and those need to be the most noticeable.

Hierarchical grids are the most unnoticed of all the grids. Their purpose is to call attention to specific elements and they do that without the viewer knowing that that it has been done on purpose. A good hierarchical layout can get you better conversions!

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Composition Grids

The Rule of Thirds

This is a composition grid that separates any space into a grid of nine equal spaces. This grid system can be vertical or horizontal but all the nine spaces always have to be the exact same size. The elements in the design are positioned in two ways. Focus points are placed according to where the lines cross from top left, top right, bottom left and then bottom right. Other important elements, usually body text, is placed inside the spaces created by the intersecting lines.

The Rule of Thirds is believed to create a pleasing composition for the viewer. By following the Rule of Thirds grid, you are making sure that your design is balanced and proportional. It is used in graphic design and also in photography.

The Golden Ratio

The Golden Ratio is also called the Golden Spiral or Golden Mean. It is a phenomenon of composition found in nature that is also applied to design. Many famous logos were created using the Golden Ratio and it is very commonly used in photography as well.

The Golden Ratio is closely related to the Fibonacci sequence. This mathematical equation rules the measurement of the Golden Rectangle, a shape that is perfectly balanced. Using the Golden Ratio or a group of Golden Rectangles in your designs will follow the ancient composition of nature.

Composite Grids

When designers use grids they do not always stick to the basics. Mixing grids is a common way of making layout design more creative and appealing. A multi page document will follow the same measurements of the manuscript grid but will have different grids for different parts of the formats.

Take a look at what a magazine layout looks like when the pages are opened and set up side by side. Notice the spaces that maintain the same proportion from page to page and the others that are different on every page. Using composite grids in a creative way will make your designs more pleasant. This mastery takes a lot of practice!

This example of the page by page layout of an entire magazine template from graphic river is a great example of a composite grid. Every page is different yet every page keeps a basic grid. You can notice it in the footer and page number and the centering of the columns and elements.

Choosing the Right Grid for Layout Design

Choosing the best grid will depend on what kind of design will you be working on. Designs with lots of text, need layout grids. Designs with lots of abstract color and shape compositions do better with the rule of thirds or golden mean. If you are hiring a designer, trust your designer!

Templates exist to save you (and your designer) precious grid-building time. You can be sure that most of the templates inside the Visme editor were created on a grid. The ones that were not, were created by designers who have grids ingrained in their vision after years of practice. You can toggle the "snap to grid" option in the view options of the Visme editor.

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What is design if not a process of turning chaos into order? From this perspective, grids serve as the main tool for graphic and user interface designers. Grids help designers to place and align design elements on the page, in other words, create a certain order.

Eleken designers create digital products and use grids to make the design process faster and more efficient. In this article, we would like to share a few tips and the best examples of grid layout design.

What is a grid in layout design?

First off, let's define the term "grids". In layout design, grid is a structure of columns and lines that helps to structure a website, app, or print project. Grid determines where the block of text and other design components sit on the page. Every grid despite its size or type consists of three main elements: columns, gutters, and margins. Grid layout design is the design that relies on the grids.

Graphic and web-designers work in the dimension that can be broken down to the rectangle, be it a page or a screen. This determines the shape of the grid as well. The lines within the grid are customized. Creators can build the grid themselves or rely on ready grid systems, while designers can use the same grid system throughout the whole piece of design, or create a new grid for each page to express their ideas.

Grid layout consists of three main components:

Columns: Vertical divisions that contain content and define the layout's structure.

Gutters: Spaces between columns that separate content and improve readability.

Margins: Empty areas on the outer edges of the layout that frame the entire design.

Grid is an essential element of UI and graphic design that allows dividing the web page into specific, predictable areas. Grids might be invisible but they are everywhere. Practically every user interface you see is built with the help of grids.

History of the grid design

We can trace the idea of the grid layout design down to the ancient times when the first books were handwritten. But with time grid importance evolved dramatically and went from unconscious aligning to carefully measured grid systems.

Grids became essential after the printing press was invented. Early prints repeated the handwritten books' design, but the printing press made alignments even more clear-cut. A good example here is the Gutenberg Bible, one of the first printed artifacts where we can easily see a two-column grid.

In the 19th century, the majority of newspapers adopted a grid-like format that would continue to be refined over the years. It has laid the groundwork for the more complex and efficient modular grids used today.

By the end of the 19th century grids remained straightforward and simple. But in the 20th century grid layout was influenced by the big design movements of the time like Bauhaus and De Stijl. Grid designs became much more interesting involving round grids and brave braking of the grid.

As we can see, grids are not some sort of a trend coming by occasionally, buta powerful design tool that has been constantly developing as the time goes. Now, let's go back to our times and see how designers use grids nowadays to create digital products.
1. Manuscript grids. The simplest grid, where text is placed in one column, like on the book page.

Used in: Books, long-form articles, academic papers, and some blogs.

Most useful for: Presenting large amounts of continuous text, enhancing readability, and maintaining a clean, uncluttered look.

What are the five types of grids?

Used in: Newspapers, magazines, websites, brochures, and multi-column documents.

Most useful for: Organizing diverse content types (text, images, ads) in a structured layout, providing flexibility in content placement, and creating visually balanced designs. Columnar grids are useful for layouts with varied information. They allow creating zones for different content. For example, you can dedicate a specific column for illustrations. In blog designs, you might use two-thirds of the layout for main content, while the smaller third displays information about the blog or its author.

There are four main types of grids in design. They are manuscript, column, modular and hierarchical grids. However we can also name the baseline grid as the fifth one.

Used in: Complex layouts such as newspapers, calendars, charts, and some website designs.

Most useful for: Organizing varied content types in a highly structured manner, creating consistency across multi-page layouts, and facilitating easy scanning of information. It's used to create pixel-perfect designs or sites with many levels of hierarchy (where there are various font sizes, different headings, etc.).

2. Column grids. The most common type of grid used by graphical and web designers. Basically, it's a number of columns that help place and align text and other design elements.

Used in: Unique web designs, infographics, posters, and some mobile app interfaces.

Most useful for: Adapting to specific content requirements, creating visual interest through asymmetry, and emphasizing certain elements over others to guide user attention.

3. Modular grids consist of columns and rows creating "modules".

4. Hierarchical grids are any irregular grids. This type of grid is the most flexible to content needs. It can be composed of two different kinds of grids brought together, or even be free-form.

The baseline grid - a grid of horizontal lines like a school copybook. Or a pixel grid used mostly for digital screens - a grid of multiple rows and columns creating a pixel net. The baseline grid is important for print design, such as book layouts, but is also used in web design. It serves as the foundation for creating a modular grid.

These different kinds of grids are used in both print and web design.

Five inspiring grid layout design examples

For you to get some inspiring grid layout ideas and better understand how important it is to use a grid in UI design, we have collected some great examples to show you.

Perfect alignment. It's the essential function of grids to align design elements. Its role in user interface designs can't be underestimated. Pay attention to how the landing page grid below makes use of empty white space and keeps the other elements perfectly aligned.

Complexity reduced. The grid can help tominimize the complexity of SaaS products. The neat structure of grid-based design helps to organize the data. For example, Eleken designers have created a neat grid-based design for TextMagic customer experience platform.

Go diagonal. We mostly imagine grids as coordinate systems. But they can be used to create diagonal designs that look fresh and interesting, just like the landing page below - looks more like a contemporary artwork, doesn't it?

Grid breakers. You can use a grid to... break out of a grid. Grid is good not only for aligning design elements, but can also help designers create the effect of movement and make the design much more interesting. Take a look at the example below of how vertical scrolling can help to break out of the horizontal and vertical grids.

Animation. The symmetrical patterns of the grids match perfectly with animated effects. It is a great way to make the grid layout more vivid and eye-catching. Here's an idea how grid approach can be combined with animation.

Think out page elements and functionality you will design.

Sketch a rough page layout, depicting all blocks and elements schematically. This helps determine module dimensions for the grid.

Build the baseline grid.

Overlay a column grid on the baseline.

Too big gutters in modular grid layout are rather a bad idea
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Set the dimensions of each module.

When you'd like to see more examples of grid-based design, check out our article about Angular Material design layout.

How do I create a layout grid?

Here are five simple steps to build grid design:

And here are five useful tips for working with grids design:

1. Keep in mind the screen size. In responsive design, it is important to be able to adjust your grids to different screen sizes. For example, the number of columns in the grid is different for mobile, tablet, and desktop screens. Usually, it is four columns for mobile, an eight-column grid for tablet, and twelve columns for desktop.

2. Gutters matter. The screen size also determines the size of the gutters. Smaller gutters look better on mobile screens and for web screens, you can use a little more space between columns. Avoid big gaps in modular grids.

3. Go horizontal. You can use the grid to scroll horizontally. In the horizontal grid, layout columns are placed from left to right, and design elements scroll the opposite way.

4. Design the grid. You can design your own grid and work with it. Mix several grids at the same time, or, in other words, play with the hierarchical grid. Adjust the height and width of the columns, change margins and sizes of the gutters to create the grid that will meet your needs.

5. Don't let the grid limit you. Don't think of the grid as of limits. Rather approach it as a certain logic that will help you bring design elements to order within the page. And don't be afraid to break out of the grid.

Can I build a UI without grids?

Grids in UI design are more important than ever. Digital products require symmetry and perfect alignment. It's part of a smooth user experience. However, it is not mandatory to use grids. You can work without a grid for sure, it will just take more time and effort to align the blocks of text and images within the web page.

If you feel like the grid is killing creativity and gets you on track with the same old patterns, you can surely try working without raws and columns. But we recommend customizing the grid and using it to enhance your ideas.

Conclusion

Grid is a system of columns and rows that helps to organize and align elements in the visual design. We at Eleken use grids to create page layouts, user interface designs, or graphic designs. Using a grid in UI design makes the process much more effortless and simple.

The grid layout is becoming more and more important with the growth of responsive design. The reason for it is that grids facilitate multi-device support and reduce complexity. Designing on the grid allows you to bring the visual hierarchy to the page and gives your content a clear structure and makes it readable. As a result, your users will navigate better through well-structured pages of your digital product.

If you find this topic interesting and want to explore it more, you can also read our article on design systems. And when you want to know how the grid can help to design your product specifically, don't hesitate to reach out to us.

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