Schematic, thoughtless centering blocks. Decorative, impractical, uneconomic (=ugly) The diagrams on this and the facing page are from pioneering Dutch typographer and designer Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography believes that placing images in such a way that they interfere with a text block wastes space and reduces the overall aesthetic
Constructive, meaningful, and economical (=beautiful) In contrast, when images are places in consideration of layout guidelines the overall balance is more dynamic and pleasing.
These two pages have symmetrical grids, as the two pages are mirror images of each other. Thus outer margin is the same on each page
These pages use an asymmetrical as the grid of one is exactly copied on the other page. Thus the left-hand margin is the same on each page.