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Building a typographic grid and designing a clean and modern layout

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Overview

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If you quickly want to step up your design game, it’s time to start designing on a typographic grid !

In this Skillshare class I’ll take you through my workflow and guide you step by step though the process of creating a precise typographic grid using Adobe In Design.

A grid is a powerful tool that will help you :

  • Keep your content organized by having elements aligned and ordered
  • Make your workflow much quicker
  • Enhance the legibility and readability of your content
  • Make collaborating with other designer much easier

In this course you will learn :

  • How to choose the right fonts
  • How to set up the perfect grid using margins and gutters
  • Sketching techniques and why it is important to start any project by sketching
  • How to place and align elements inside the grid and taking in consideration blank space as part of the design

Syllabus

  • introduction
  • class project
  • what is a typographic grid
  • three basic graphic design rules
  • choosing the right font
  • building the grid
  • sketching
  • designing
  • conclusion

Taught by

Magaly Valette

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