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-# grids
-Proportional Grid Generator
+# Grids
+A typesetting tool for creating functional page grids with accurately sized type. 
+
+Based on Josef Müller-Brockmann's [📙 *Grid systems in graphic design*](https://www.niggli.ch/en/produkt/grid-systems-in-graphic-design/).
+
+## Why
+Creating pixel perfect typeset grids is not hard, but it is inaccessible because [text is not the size it says it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zg3NnqWz9U). You have to do a manual process of measuring letterforms directly to calcualate the correct type size and line spacing to match your grid.
+
+🤔 hold on, calculate?... isn't that, like, what computers are good at??
+
+Precisely!
+
+## What
+A local electron app that takes your grid specifications and choice of typeface, crunches the numbers, and returns a preview of your type grid and the exact layout and type parameters to input in your design software (InDesign, Affinity, Figma, etc.)
+