It’s a good idea to start experiment with your layout by deciding on the Margins. You have to play with the Margins, Columns and Rows all at the same time. The start of the first Imageline is calculated in the Imageline-section. Imagelines are always one less than the Baselines and are an aid to adjusting the height of pictures to the type.
Baseline and Horizontal Lines are mainly useful to those who are making grids in Illustrator. Ratio H:W is simply to see how far we are from a one by one proportion.īaselines is the number of lines from top to bottom of the page when Correct Leading is used.
You will have to zoom very deep to see a difference. But it’s very close, in this case, 0.12th of a point. The result gives us the width of the Grid Units and a number we can use to fill in the Horizontal > Gridline Every in InDesign.Īs you see in this example, the height and the width of the Grid Unit is not a perfect square. The Horizontal Leading 11.905 pt is the result of the same kind of calculation as the Correct Leading but for the width. In this section, we get all the starter results which we calculated from the page size and leading.įirst we have the Correct Leading as explained above.
It is used to calculate the grid and also to set the Document Grid and Baseline Grid in InDesign. This Correct Leading (see next section) is very important. The result gives us 12.027 pt as a new leading. What the calculator does is to round this number to 70 and then use it to divide into the page height again. Dividing into this with 12 pt leading you would get 70.15 lines for the grid lines. In the example here the page height is 297 mm. Then you put in the leading you want to use the Original Leading field. Start by setting the size of your page, poster, business card or whatever you are designing in millimeters into the Paper Height and Paper Width. Let me guide you through the elements of the calculator one by one to explain what they do. It’s rare to get 100% square, but the calculator gets you very close. The width is as close to the height as possible. The height of the squares is the same as the leading of the main text in the document. Usually, I prefer to base my layout grids on equal sided squares, each square being a grid unit to calculate the layout. Now it is time to dive into what this calculator is all about. The Easy Grid Calculator will save you a lot of time-consuming calculations and allow more time experimenting. I finally glued the different parts together and placed online as the Easy Grid Calculator – Square Units, or if you prefer, Easy Grid Calculator – Proportional Units, free for everyone to use (donations welcomed of course). A collection of over a dozen different calculators for finding out different elements of the grid. One of the tools I have used while calculating a grid for a layout was an Excel file I had used to experiment with different kinds of calculation methods.
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