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Nathan Ford: Don’t just choose a grid. Design it!

Notes from Nathan Ford’s talk on grids and Gridset from what looks like an excellent evening at Port80 localhost in Newport, Wales.

You should design a grid based on your content’s constraints, not design your content based on a grid’s constraints.



Written by Andy Clarke who filed this in talks .


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