The quiet return of the grid.
Why the sharpest interfaces of the decade look like a poster from 1958.
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Vol. IV — 96 pp.
“White space is not empty. It is the loudest thing on the page.”
Ines Okafor — Art director
“A grid is a promise you make to the reader, and keep.”
Tomas Lindqvist — Typographer
“Set the type first. Everything else is furniture.”
Mara Solv — Editor
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Letter from the editor
4On leaving things out, and why this issue is eight pages shorter than the last.
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The quiet return of the grid
12Twelve columns, one baseline, and the studios that never stopped using them.
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Type that moves
28Motion as punctuation: when a headline should rise, and when it should stay put.
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Notes on white space
41A field guide to margins, gutters and the courage to leave a page half empty.
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Colophon
94Typefaces, paper stock and everyone who made the issue.
31pieces match
The quiet return of the gridRead by Ines Okafor
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Art director — LagosWrites on grids, restraint and the margin1 of things.
1 The white kind. Occasionally the profit kind.