From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

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06 Group related page elements

06 Group related page elements

From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

06 Group related page elements

- Law six, Group Related Page Elements. In most documents you're going to have some elements that are related to others in the same document. For example, headings are related to sub-headings. Sub-headings are related to paragraphs. And captions are related to images. So when you look at a document, these relationships should be obvious. Related elements should be physically close to each other in order to form a visual group. There's a Gesalt Principle that's called the Law of Proximity and this law states when people perceive an assortment of objects, they perceive objects that are close to each other as forming a group. Let's see how we can apply this Law of Proximity to our document design and topography. Here is an example of a page with some sub-headings and you can see that the sub-headings are equally distant from the text above them and the text below them. This equal distance actually makes it look like these sub-headings are floating in space. They're really not visually…

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