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Gage's Applied Design for Printers on proportion, balance, symmetry, variety and motion
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What this guide covers
For designers laying out printed pages, comics or picture books. It summarises five sections of Harry Lawrence Gage's 1920 handbook on arranging masses and spaces, with the text's own numbers and a short checklist. The text is about printing, not comics, and the comic uses are marked as inference and untested.
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Guide title
Gage's Applied Design for Printers on proportion, balance, symmetry, variety and motion
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For designers laying out printed pages, comics or picture books. It summarises five sections of Harry Lawrence Gage's 1920 handbook on arranging masses and spaces, with the text's own numbers and a short checklist. The text is about printing, not comics, and the comic uses are marked as inference and untested.
Useful starting points
- The handbook says exact centring looks slightly low, so a lone title block is raised to the optical center.
- It treats an area's pull as size and tone together, so a dark mass counts for more than a pale one of equal size.
- Variety layouts are described as common in advertising display and rare in book work.
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