Best Of: CSS Grid Tools

Using a CSS grid framework for your design is a great starting point on which you can build a consistent and slick looking website with pixel perfect horizontal and vertical spacing.

Layout grids have been in use long before the web. Magazines and newspapers have long been using grids to achieve visual cohesion for their headings, paragraphs, pictures and ads.

If you have not yet used a CSS grid framework for you design work, I suggest to get started you try out some of these tools and see how they can help you improve your next web design project.

960 Grid System

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem

CSS Boilerplate

One of the original authors of Blueprint CSS has decided to re-factor his ideas into a stripped down framework which provides the bare essentials to begin any project. This framework will be lite and strive not to suggest un-semantic naming conventions.

YUI: CSS Grid Builder

The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. The 4kb file provides over 1000 page layout combinations.

#grid

#grid inserts a layout grid in web pages, allowing you to hold it in place, and toggle between displaying it in the foreground or background. To see it in action on your website, hit G on your keyboard.

Gridmaker

Gridmaker is a handy tool that alows you to create grid based templates for use in photoshop.

netProtozo: Grid Generator

Grid designer lets you create your own grid based on the your desired parameters.

Blueprint

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.

1 KB CSS Grid

Other CSS frameworks try to do everything—grid system, style reset, basic typography, form styles. But complex systems are, well, complex. Looking for a simple, lightweight approach that doesn’t require a PhD? Meet The 1KB CSS Grid

Gridr Buildrrr

Gridr Buildrrr allows you to create and layout your own grids.

Typogridphy

Typogridphy is a CSS framework constructed to allow web designers and front-end developers to quickly code typograhically pleasing grid layouts.

Grid Calculator

Grid Calculator allows you to select your desired font size and select the number of columns, column width, and gutter width based on that base font size.

Fluid 960 Grid System

The Fluid 960 Grid System templates have been built upon the work of Nathan Smith and his 960 Grid System using effects from the MooTools and jQuery JavaScript libraries.

Grid Designer

Input your desired number of columns, total width, gutters and margin and calculate the basic typographic settings for your design.

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