PepGold Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Hi guys, I'm looking for a better way of doing this. I'm trying to setup a typographic grid system, but my method right now is cumbersome and very manual labor intensive. I know that I want a grid that consists of 59 lines of text in total with 6 modules or subdivisions, that has 9 lines of text in each module followed by a gutter (interline space of 1 line.) The numbers. Typeface: Futura 10/13pt. Document height A4 = 297mm 59 lines = 270mm Module (9 lines) = 39,338mm Gutter = 6,559mm The way I'm going about this right now in the guides manager is setting the top margin (13,5mm). Then create a new guide at set its value to 13,5mm + 39,338mm. Then take the result of that + 6,559mm, then take the result of that and add 39,338mm to, and so it goes. I hope it makes sense. I've attach a screenshot for clarity. Any tips on a more efficient way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bauke Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Hi csj, I didn't try to replicate your situation, but I think you can use the second axis of the grid as a baseline (accessible via the Grid and Axis Manager). Here's a Affinity Designer tutorial on the setting up grids for icon design, but you can use it for typography too: Let me know if that helps! Best, Bauke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PepGold Posted October 5, 2016 Author Share Posted October 5, 2016 Hi Bauke, Yeah it's really close! It is what I need, but not quite, since I can't specify and define an area to draw or constrain to grid into. Like within margins. So I can't control the positioning, but I can get grid fields and gutters. Very close but no cigar. :D Thanks for suggestion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted October 6, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 6, 2016 A tool for setting the origin of the grid will be coming soon. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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