55 The State of Web Design Trends: 2012
The Golden Grid System also ships with its own “Golden Gridlet”;
a JavaScript tool that lays the grid guides over your page to aid
design. Similar tools are available to throw into any old web proj-
ect—take The Heads-Up Grid for example (see previous page). The
Heads-Up Grid lays gridlines (as defined by your desired dimen-
sions) over your webpage to help visualize alignment and relation-
ships between elements in your design. Again, it’s responsive, so it
shrinks and grows along with your layout.
Typography
Obviously, typography isn’t a discipline which has emerged in 2011,
but it’s an area of web design that continues to grow and is facili-
tated more than ever by web fonts and services.
The 16 pixels movement for content.
