- [Instructor] There are various different grid systems
that can be used to assist with your layouts.
The simplest of course,
is the just stick stuff wherever single column grid
that is really meant for novels and text-only books.
We follow that with a slightly better two column grid
and then a three column and a six column.
Now you can make these as column dense as you like,
to be honest,
but my personal go-to is the 12 column
because it's divisible by two, three, four, and six.
The three column grid is actually the foundation as well
for the asymmetrical two column grid that you see here,
which I use for some of my technical textbooks.
Hierarchical grids may be split into several rows,
but this example is actually using the golden rectangle
which I find most useful for postal work.
But there are many other uses, of course.
Modular grids are I think the hands down favorite
of the day because they are so flexible
and the horizontal flow lines are a great help.
You break things down into modules and chunks
and spread them across the different modules there.
Let's not forget the world of the web
where grids are very prevalent.
Modern grid systems make responsive design much easier
than it used to be too,
which is handy if you think about
all the different device sizes
and aspect ratios around these days.