build / 2026 / daily-build + editorial-design Gridloom shows an editorial artboard with occupied columns, baseline intersections, derived measurements, geometry controls, and SVG export.

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Gridloom: Modular Layout Grids Without Guide Arithmetic

A daily creator-tool release for editorial designers who need deterministic modular grids and production-ready SVG overlays.

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Gridloom is for editorial designers preparing recurring magazine and campaign layouts in Figma. Every new artboard format brings the same geometric job: establish columns, gutters, margins, baselines, and module rows, then preserve the relationships well enough for the layout system to survive production.

The usual workaround is spreadsheet arithmetic followed by manually dragged and duplicated Figma guides. A changed artboard ratio or baseline interval means recalculating the system and rebuilding the guide layer. Small mistakes become structural inconsistencies across a publication.

Gridloom derives the modular layout system from the artboard and geometry controls, previews occupied columns and baseline intersections, and exports a standards-compliant SVG guide overlay for Figma. Each geometry control independently changes the canonical output. Preview and export share the same derived grid, and saved state round-trips through a shareable URL.

Project marker: gridloom-2026-08-11.

The release verifier runs the canonical editorial fixture against the deployed app, writes fresh SVG bytes, and reruns the committed validator. Shipment requires the live workflow to produce the same authored grid structure promised by the reviewed release.