What's New in Grid Maker Pro

New Features

• 286 SEO landing pages: 11 category hubs, 78 overlay leaves, 6 Tier-S tool landings, 12 educational pillars, 19 glossary entries, 4 audience hubs, 14 sub-segments, 8 competitor comparisons
• Flagship 5,640-word pillar at /learn/82-composition-overlays
• Founder + methodology E-E-A-T anchor pages
• Public overlay data API at /api/overlays.json (CC BY 4.0)
• Workspace export/import (JSON of all presets)
• Hero tool deep-link integration (?overlay= and ?paper= URL params)
• CSS-only mega-menu in the site header
• Master glossary index page

Improvements

• 5-script audit infrastructure (internal links, schema, similarity, deep links, image alt)
• 85 per-page OG images for social previews
• Analytics + PostHog scaffolding
• Newsletter dual-backend (Buttondown + Web3Forms)
• Editorial calendar + 6 new blog posts
• 10-video YouTube content kit

Bug Fixes

• Schema validation pass across all 1,153+ JSON-LD blocks (0 errors)
• 21 legacy Gridmaker [Name].html URLs now 301-redirect to clean paths
• Fixed sibling-similarity drift on the sacred-geometry leaves

New Features

• Sacred geometry hub launched with all 19 traditions — Flower of Life, Seed of Life, Metatron's Cube, Vesica Piscis, Sri Yantra, Tree of Life, Merkaba, hexagram, pentagram, Egg of Life, Fruit of Life, Yin-Yang, Enneagram, Islamic 8-point, Islamic 12-point, Borromean Rings, Torus Field, Ain Soph, Celtic Triquetra, Platonic Solids
• Typography hub with 6 overlays incl. 12-column web grid, baseline grid, 8pt spacing
• Design templates hub with comic panel, storyboard, logo construction, icon grid, mobile app layout, poster/editorial, social media safe zones
• Architecture grids with Le Corbusier Modulor calculator + structural grid + tartan grid
• Per-overlay color, opacity, and line-width controls

Improvements

• Overlay stacking — keep multiple overlays active at once, reorder with drag handles
• Refined transform handles: rotation, scale, skew now snap to common angles
• Improved high-DPI rendering for export

New Features

• Overlay search box on the right-hand panel — type to filter 80+ overlays by name or category
• Reilly head construction overlay as an alternative to Loomis (aliased under the same head-method IDs)
• Isometric grid with adjustable density for technical illustration and game art
• Dimetric and trimetric projection overlays for industrial drawing

Improvements

• Improved touch gesture support on iPad — pinch to scale, two-finger rotate
• Sharper line antialiasing at high zoom
• Faster startup with route-level code splitting

New Features

• Share button: copy the current overlay + transform state as a shareable URL
• Recents panel: last 5 uploaded images stored locally for quick recall
• Crop tool for trimming reference images before applying overlays
• Per-overlay opacity slider in the right-hand panel

Bug Fixes

• Fixed transform handles disappearing after rapid overlay switches
• Resolved colour-picker reset when toggling overlays

New Features

• All 8 composition overlays complete — rule of thirds, golden ratio, golden spiral, golden triangle, diagonal method, center cross, rule of fifths, quadrant
• Per-overlay transform finalized: move + rotate + scale + skew with snap-to-axis
• Diagonal method, center cross, and rule of fifths added to the composition hub

Improvements

• Right-hand panel reorganized by category for faster discovery
• Image upload now accepts HEIC alongside PNG/JPG/WebP

New Features

• Complete platform rewrite on Next.js with static export for instant loads
• ~40 overlays across 7 categories — composition, artist guides, dynamic symmetry, perspective, specialty, sacred geometry, advanced composition
• Client-side processing remains — images never leave your device
• Real-time preview as you adjust settings
• High-quality PNG export with retina-aware rendering

Improvements

• 3× faster performance compared to v3.x
• Better browser compatibility (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge — last two majors)
• Fully responsive mobile design with refined touch targets

Breaking Changes

• Removed any remaining server-side processing — now 100% client-side
• Dropped support for IE11 and pre-2022 browser builds

Grid Maker Pro launched in late 2024 with 6 overlays — square, rectangular, custom grid, rule of thirds, golden ratio, and the basic diagonal method. Through 2025 the catalogue grew to ~40 overlays based on user requests, with the dynamic symmetry root rectangles, golden spiral, the first head-construction guides (Loomis), and the early perspective grids landing across the year. Founder narrative is at /about/sarah-chen/; the long-form methodology is at /methodology/.