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position of the picture in the text
Hello everyone!
I have a question:
I've search for lot of materials and books on design, but still have no satisfactory answer at all. Opinions differs, so I ask yours!
Problem: position of the picture in the text on the page and it's relation to the baseline grid and text, In the case of modular grid.
Now I found two general opinions:
1)
The bottom always is standing on the baseline, and the top is on the mean line (x-hight).
2)
The bottom is standing on the desent line, and the top is on the ascender line (Caps hight).
What you think about it?
Maybe there are straight solutions, or reasoned opinions.
Thank you
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9 Sep 2009 — 8:26am
I always let images rest on the baseline, and cut them at cap-height.
9 Sep 2009 — 8:25am
And if there is text at the top? A line space?
9 Sep 2009 — 8:29am
Editing the post messed up the order, but to answer your question:
9 Sep 2009 — 8:30am
The image resolution messed this up, but the top is cut at cap height. I rarely design anything with so thin borders between text and images though.
9 Sep 2009 — 8:47am
Thank you,
And why?
I'm not against, but I'm also interested in reasons!
9 Sep 2009 — 9:04am
Very helpful comments frode frank. I'll keep that in mind for my upcoming documents.
9 Sep 2009 — 9:04am
Why I chose to align images with the caps? Because ascenders and letters at x-height make up the most of any line, and they are rather different in height – I figured something in between would make sense.
9 Sep 2009 — 9:16am
Thank you,
I understand.
I'm from Russia, and in Cirillic typography there are very few ascenders (so Cirillic lower case looks like small-caps), so we have a line mostly in x-hight.
So the idea is the same, but with some differences.