Foundry Desk
Foundry Desk — Composition System

Type that holds the grid.

A typesetting desk built on the Swiss modular lattice. Every column, rule, and caption snaps to one baseline — phone to proofing wall, the grid never drifts.

The System

Order is the only decoration.

Raster reduces an interface to its load-bearing parts: a visible column grid, hairline rules, oversized grotesk headlines, and a single vermilion register mark at the origin of each heading. Nothing floats; everything aligns.

Edition rules

One ink, one graphite, one register red.

01

Modular columns

A 12-column lattice with uneven spans — a wide lead block leads, narrow rails carry metadata. Asymmetry with intent, never centred filler.

02

The origin rule

Every section opens on a hairline graphite rule with a short vermilion segment marking the left origin of the heading. The whole system, one gesture.

03

Editorial tables

Data reads as a journal table: flush-left labels, mono figures, row dividers. No rounded app widgets, no glassy bloom.

Standing Figures
98%
Alignment held across breakpoints
8px
Baseline every module snaps to
240
Folios typeset this edition
Open Proofs

The page is the ledger.

Pull any folio and it reads as a set sheet — not a dashboard tile.

FolioSectionColsState
F-241Front matter7 / 5Live
F-238Long read8 / 4Proof
F-236Data spread6 / 6Live
Set Your First Folio

Open the desk and the grid sets itself.