Align texts and objects to a design grid

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Don’t position text frames and other objects arbitrarily.

Align all objects to a common design grid so that they have common distances from the page or screen margins.

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Typical applications of a design grid

Some typical examples of objects that should be aligned to a common design grid are:

graphical elements and text elements on a title page

headers and footers that are aligned with the text column

logos, dates, version numbers, and page numbers

texts within a picture

For the same reason, always align tables and pictures to the left of the text column instead of centering them. All elements then have a common starting line on the left side of the page, which looks much more consistent and less cluttered than a mixture of left-aligned and centered elements.

Example

In the following example, the lines indicate the common alignments on the different page types of a user manual:


Guide the reader’s eye