International Style — Annual ReportVol. 01 / 1953
01Overview

The grid is the system.

Grid is a design platform for studios and editorial teams who believe the typographic raster is the only honest foundation for visual communication. Objective. Legible. International.

Period
FY 1953–
Grid
12 Column
Status
Audited
02Index

+88.0

Legibility Index / 6yr

’48’53
03Spec
Typeface
Inter
Baseline
8 pt
Margin
Asymmetric
Color
Mono + Red

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Built for scale

Everything you need to ship

One platform, every primitive. Replace a half-dozen tools and ship in an afternoon.

Modular Raster

Define an 8 or 12-column raster once and apply it across print, screen, and signage. Margins, baselines, and breakpoints derive automatically.

Typographic Hierarchy

A predefined scale based on Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica proportions. Headlines, leads, and body copy align to the baseline on every device.

Objective Color

Neutral primaries with a single accent. Color decisions are documented with reasoning, not preference. No gradients, no decoration.

Asymmetric Layout

Tools for left-aligned, ragged-right composition. Grid encourages the asymmetric balance that defines the International style — never forced symmetry.

Image Discipline

Editorial photography pipeline with crop ratios, duotone presets, and caption styles that hold up in print and on a 4K display alike.

Multilingual Setting

Built for cross-border editorial work. Hyphenation, kerning, and orphan control honour the conventions of 14 European typographic traditions.

Unified dashboard for everything you ship

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Unified dashboard for everything you ship

Built for developers, loved by teams

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Built for developers, loved by teams

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Active businesses

99.99%

Uptime SLA

195

Countries supported

4.9

Developer rating

Loved by builders

Teams that ship faster, choose us

The API documentation is the best I've ever worked with. We integrated in under a day and haven't looked back since.

Sarah Chen

Sarah Chen

CTO, TechFlow

Moving to this platform reduced our failures by 40% and saved our team hundreds of hours in reconciliation work.

Marcus Rivera

Marcus Rivera

Head of Engineering, Bloom

What impressed me most was the global coverage. We expanded to 30 new markets in a single quarter — something that would have taken us years otherwise.

Aisha Patel

Aisha Patel

Founder, NexaPay

Simple pricing

Start free. Pay as you grow.

No hidden fees. No contracts. Switch plans anytime.

Apprentice

For independent designers and students learning the discipline of the grid.

$0/mo
1 project, 3 templates
Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica metrics
PDF and PNG exports
Public typographic forum
Most popular

Studio

For editorial and brand studios producing serious work for serious clients.

$99/mo
Unlimited projects and templates
InDesign, Figma, and Sketch sync
Multi-language typesetting
Print-ready color profiles
Shared studio archive

Institute

For publishers, museums, and universities maintaining a long editorial archive.

Custom
On-premise archive and CMS
Custom typeface licensing
Editorial style enforcement
Trained typesetting consultant
ISBN and DOI metadata pipeline
Frequently asked

Questions, answered

No. The grid is the same whether you are typesetting a quarterly, a museum signage system, or a SaaS dashboard. The discipline applies to any surface where reading is the primary task.

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