White Space vs Pictures vs Words

Report · May 30, 2023

Is there a way to measure the White space in an InDesign file in comparison to the amount of space Text takes up and Images take up? This will help my company know if a book has too many images or too much white space or too many words.

For example: The document is considered 100% filled. Perhaps 10% of the document is filled with images, 30% of the file is take up with text / words, and 60% is filled with white space. 10% + 30% + 60% = 100% of the document.

Could all the white pixels be counted and compared to all the colored pixels maybe to determine this ratio?

Report · Jun 07, 2023

Just going to weigh in that I think counting white pixels in not what most people would consider "white space" in a design. I would say the traditional unerstanding is white space encompasses "blank" areas outside any image areas and type-filled zones and would not include counters in glyphs or white pixels in an image or the leading space in a block of text.

Report · Jun 28, 2023

Thank you! I will keep this in mind as I analyze these pages.