I can see how the canons work for the vast majority of black letter on clear background book printing but the minute one adds color to a page layout or inverts a black and white scheme the gutter question comes back.
Web page gutter.
The gutter alley and creep are all terms common in the publishing or graphic design field.
System closed october 8 2014 1 38am.
Stepping beyond the web none of my reading on book design and the canons of page construction talks about this issue either.
The inside margins closest to the spine of a book or the blank space between two facing pages in the center of a newsletter or magazine is known as the gutter.
A gutter margin is the white space formed by the adjoining inside margins of two facing pages in a book or the space between columns on a page.
Grid systems also dictate the size of such design elements.
A common setup is to use 12 columns and 30px of gutter.
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