Text Layout Design

Book binding refers to the whole design process from the book manuscript to the book publication, layout design is an important part of the book binding. Layout design is an important means of visual communication of books, is an important study of book layout; in reality, layout design is not only a skill, but also realize the coordination of technology and art agree. Layout design is said to be one of the basic qualities necessary for modern designers.

The oldest version of the design of the first 500 years ago to the German Gutenberg as the representative of the classical version of the design, which is characterized by the staple for the axis of the left and right pages relative to the symmetry of the internal version of the strict limitations. Word spacing, line spacing has a uniform size standard, the head of the day, the foot of the white inside and outside the edge are in accordance with a certain proportion of the relationship between the composition of a protective frame. Text ink depth and embedded in the center of the black and white relationship of the picture have a strict correspondence standard, classical layout design in the history of book design ruled Europe for hundreds of years unchanged, until today still has a large market.

In the early 20th century, with the emergence of modern civilization, Western Europe and the emergence of grid design, which is the use of mathematical proportionality on the book page, through rigorous calculations, the center of the plate is divided into a myriad of uniform sizes of the grid, in order to allocate the text and pictures of a layout design method. It focuses on the sense of proportion, order, continuity, clarity, science and seriousness. in the second half of the 1940s, the first printed material with a grid was published, and the strict text and picture design scheme, the uniform layout throughout the book and the simple and unadorned expression of the theme represented the new trend. Grids enabled design applications to develop functionally, logically and aesthetically. But with the design process, slowly found that the grid design is too restrictive, there is no free space for creativity, easy to give the layout of the dull feeling, so many insights to carry out research, and strive to break the constraints of the grid to make the picture become more rhythmic.

After the 80's, the use of computer technology in the design industry so that the layout of the language has been unprecedented development, into the late 90's, free layout design in the world widely popular and increasingly important. Free layout design is literally the design without any restriction, it is the design way of free combination and arrangement of its own elements through the layout arrangement. It breaks the constraints of classical design and grid design, breaks the unified order advocated by layout design, and is a contemporary layout form and style with avant-garde consciousness.

With the development of society and the continuous development of science and technology, people's demands on the quality of life are getting higher and higher, and the higher experience of reading books has also become the trend and direction of the current social development. The history of the book layout design will not stay in the design has been determined to stop, but more rapid, refined, simple, feasible and effective continue to develop at high speed. More and more novel and beyond the original concept of layout design will continue to emerge to meet the reading experience of different people.