Other forms: layouts
A layout is the arrangement of text and pictures on a page. Design the layout, a clean layout, the page layout.
It decides what the reader looks at first and in what order, which is most of what makes a page readable. Grids, margins and whitespace do the work. The word also covers the arrangement of anything physical: the layout of a kitchen, a factory layout, a model railway layout. Note lay out as the verb, written as two words, where the noun is one.
1nounlayoutThe arrangement of text and pictures on a page.
“The designer changed the layout of the magazine so the photos are bigger.”
2nounphysicalThe arrangement of a physical space.
“We changed the layout of the kitchen so the fridge is next to the door.”
layout is an arrangement.
Deverbal from lay out.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in News & Communication