From the course: Designing with Grids in InDesign
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Determining margins - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing with Grids in InDesign
Determining margins
- [Instructor] Margins frame your page. They also provide a place for you to hold the book or magazine without your fingers and thumbs obscuring the content. In certain types of book they can provide a place for the user to take notes. Too often people just accept the default margins without consideration to this important design decision. I'd like to show you three possible ways for choosing the size of your margins. I'll be using a letter size page, but the same approach will work with any size of page. Note that these methods are best suited to a multi-column page. For a single column or manuscript grid see my course on designing a book here in the training library. My first approach is going to have the margins be determined by the aspect ratio of the page. As we saw in the previous movie, the aspect ratio of a letter size page is one to 1.29. In InDesign I'll create a new document, Command or Control + N, it's going to be a Print document, Letter size. I'll set the Units to…
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