With Pinterest coming out of the woodwork and taking social media by storm in the recent months, it’s apparent that a lot of it’s popularity is down to it’s aesthetically pleasing layout. Pinterest’s “grid view” style for displaying pins is what the design world refers to as a Masonry Grid.
Masonry Grids are different from normal grids in that they do not have to be the same size as each other (like traditional grids created with CSS & HTML) and they slot in perfectly with each other despite their different lengths.
Traditional Grid
