chosen typography, that is both fitting for the medium, and grounded in a
historical understanding of how to use type. It provides plenty of practical
typographic advice, while lamenting “hack designers” and University design
departments that lack “classic” typographic curriculum
2.Setting Type on the web to a Baseline Grid
This article reviews issues with aligning elements to a baseline grid with CSS
and provides a solution. The solution is an attempt to take a common print
based grid technique and apply it to the web. “We can apply the same
principles of proportion and balance to the type within those columns by
borrowing another technique from our print brethren: the baseline grid.”
This solution helps to control the flow of the page.