A: Multicolumn grids provide flexibility for layouts. Variations of columns widths and spacing are available when using multicolumn grids. The more columns there are the more flexible and un-static a layout can be.
Q: How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line?
A: 75 characters, 12 words
Q:Why is the baseline grid used?
A: anchor all or nearly all to common elements. To create consistency.
Q: What are reasons to justify? Unjustify?
A: 75 characters, 12 words
Q:Why is the baseline grid used?
A: anchor all or nearly all to common elements. To create consistency.
Q: What are reasons to justify? Unjustify?
A: Justification creates efficient use of space on a layout. It also creates a clean compact shape on the page and useful for newspapers and books.
Unjustify when large gaps occur or if the line length is too long on a page.
Q: What is a typographic river?
A: river of white gaps in typesetting which can run through a body of text. These are extremely visible and distracting in copy.
Q: What does clothesline, hangline or flow line mean?
A: Clothesline-
Hangline-
Flowline-
Q: What is type color/texture mean?
A:The light or bold aspect of a font
Q: How does x-height effect type color?
A: Smaller text look more dens, while large text can look less bold even though they can occupy more of the space.
Q:
A:You can indicate a new paragraph by an indent or line break even a symbol.
Some rules to follow Line break and ½ line space, outdent and line break, extra space inside line
