What is a Grid?

A grid is a very old method, used since the Japanese-Zin Buddhism. It was first introduced into typography in 1930. Contributors included Max Bill, Herbert Bayer and Richard Paul Lohse. A grid today is of the well-known column typography of newspapers. Columns produce a vertical typographic structure and a grid adds a horizontal-orientated structure. Grid can produce modules that can be shapes other than squares.

The grid system is very basic and it can be applied for different typographic tasks. It adds simplicity to all the complex tasks such as newspapers, catalogues, magazines etc.

Grids are used everywhere. Here are several examples of works done using the Grid system.