From the course: Typography: Working with Grids
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Creating grids for tabular matter
From the course: Typography: Working with Grids
Creating grids for tabular matter
Managing data is one of the trickiest jobs for a designer. Using grids will help you present tabular matter in a format which makes it accessible and understandable to your reader, which is always our goal. Let's look at some good examples of tabular grids. This list of 500 companies has three statistics, a ranking, the company name, and a percentage representing a three-year growth rate. The factors to be considered when establishing the grid were the number of pages allocated for this list, the number of entries, which was 500, the length of the longest company name, and legibility factors including point sizes, type styles, and sufficient space between entries to have clear separation. That calculation resulted in a four-column grid. Notice the light tint bars across every other line. These help readers with separation. This grid addresses the process behind the NBA lottery for draft picks. Each of the 14 teams is ranked by its chances at getting top picks. The team name and…
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