Drew Ink The year

Column grid

A grid divided only vertically, which is what most pages and nearly every web layout actually use.

Column grid: a drawn diagram with the column grid marked in vermilion.
Column grid, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-09.
Column grid: a page of Schönsperger's Nuremberg Chronicle, Augsburg 1497, two columns of text under a woodcut that spans both, the portraits and paragraphs each held to one column or the other.
A page of Schönsperger's Nuremberg Chronicle, 1497, Johann Schönsperger, printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Augsburg in 1497; Schönsperger died before 1521, and the page is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful scan of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright.
The whole page. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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What it is made of

what it isa page divided into a fixed number of columns of equal width, with a gutter between them, and every block sized to a whole number of them
measured on our own site, and the measurement is a nilgrid-template-columns appears ZERO times in ink.css, and so do repeat(), auto-fit, auto-fill and minmax(). The site lays out with 9 flex rows and 3 grids and declares no column track anywheremeasured on ink.css, which is the whole of this site's CSS. So this entry describes the thing and not our use of it. A site with two breakpoints and one spacing token does not need a column grid to be consistent, which is worth saying beside the nil rather than leaving the nil to read as a gap