SLIDESHOW
The Grid: Introductory Slideshow

READINGS
Thinking With Type – Grid

Thinking with Type_Grids (3rd Edition)

An Ode to the Layout Grid 

Dynamic Grid System

Making and Breaking The Grid (pg. 22), Anatomy (24-25)

Typographic Grid Resources

TIPS

How to Combine Typefaces
See article: Smashing Magazine – How To Combine Fonts
Ellen Lupton Video – How To Combine Fonts
Ellen Lupton Video: Wine, Cheese, Fonts

Font Research
Font Research – Fonts In Use

Setting Up Your Grid
1. Go to InDesign and create a new document: 10″ x 16,” Facing Pages.
2. The single page at the top of your Pages panel is Page 1 of your Editorial (often your Title Page, or a Blank).
3. Drag two pages down from the Pages panel to create the first Spread in your document.
4. Now go to Layout > Margins and Columns and adjust the Margins as you want them, and then the Columns. Don’t forget to check off “Preview” in this window. *Note: Think of the relationships between the margins. Like many things in design, if all your margins are the same it gives a more “static” composition. If you want something more dynamic, consider the size relationships between your margins, ensuring that the inner margin on both pages of your spread is generous enough to accommodate once the publication is bound.
5. If you want a “modular grid,” then go to Layout > Create Guides, and set your rows and columns. *Under Options, make sure to Fit Guides to: “Margin.”
6. Next, to create the text box that matches your grid, go to Object > Text Frame Options. Here set your column # and gutter to match what you set under Margins and Columns.
7. Draw a text box that fills the entire area defined by the margins you created. You will now have one text box that contains the 2 or 3-column grid you set up. Begin to flow content into it.
8. Copy the same text box to the right-hand page, and you will now have a full spread with your grid and text area defined.
9. Add your page numbers/folios and running heads/feet – the latter is where you define the Name of your publication on the left-hand side, and the section you are in on the right-hand side, often grouped with page numbers with typographic differentiation or another device (i.e. a virgule, bullet, etc.)
10. Explore different possible grid structures


Video: InDesign Modular Grids, An Introduction
Setting Up a Grid (Adobe)
Designing with Grids in InDesign (Lynda.com tutorial)

Printing Editorial to Present as Hard Copy Spreads
With your Editorial doc open in InDesign, go to:
1. File > Export
2. Choose “PDF” from dropdown menu below in dialog box
3. When next dialog appears, choose Press Quality in top dropdown
4. Then under Pages the range you want to print
5. And choose to print “Pages” (not Spreads)

6. On left-hand menu in dialog, go to “Marks and Bleeds”
– Click box to print Crop Marks
– Put value .125″ into Bleed area

7. Click “Export” button on lower-right of dialog box
– PDF will be generated
8. Print PDF of single Pages from Acrobat making sure to print 100% (actual size)
– For test prints, print in black-and-white
9. Cut out Pages using crop marks, and then tape together into “Spread”

How to Turn Off Hyphenation
1. Go to Menu > Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph
2. In your InDesign document, select type to turn off hyphenation for (Select All, etc)

3. When “Paragraph” pane opens, use little “hamburger” menu upper right and scroll down to choose Hyphenation

4. When Hyphenation Settings dialog opens, un-check “Hyphenate” in upper left of dialog box.
5. Then select “OK”