Ugh. This doesn't show the benefits of a baseline grid, but of good interline spacing (leading in print typography jargon). Baseline grids are used in print for

Ugh. This doesn't show the benefits of a baseline grid, but of good interline spacing (leading in print typography jargon). Baseline grids are used in print for multicolumn layout, so you don't get lines that are vertically offset from their neighbours in nearby columns. Blank-line typography is a big problem with baseline grids. A full line-height gap between paragraphs is disasterous for vertical rhythm. Any paragraph spacing is suspicious (there are purists, of which I'm not one, Jan Tschischold particularly was scathing), but if you have, say 16/24 spacing then add a blank line between paragraphs, you're losing any kind of coherence, I think. For that reason baseline grids are either set with indented-paragraph markings (normal in print) or set with rather close leading to keep paragraphs from getting lost. So a bit of a weird post, I didn't find it clear, typographically beautiful, or giving good advice.