Using the sort of layout that my research suggested would be appropriate and the grid of my website as a starting point, this is what my first idea for a grid is. It uses the same size gaps as the website, but because the page is only A6 they look considerably bigger, which needed to be addressed.
I changed this by halving the size of the gaps between the boxes, expanding the larger boxes to fill in the gaps that were no longer supposed to be gaps.
After this, I decided that the gap between the two boxes at the top wasn't necessary due to the nature of the information that would be going in those two boxes, which will be stuff like how long it takes to make, how many it serves etc etc, so I merged them together.
Doing this makes the layout look a lot simpler on a basic level, and draws more importance to the ingredients and directions as they will be the only information that will have a defined horizontal column.
However, this gives me a problem when considering colour, as the top two boxes will span an area where the background has two different colours in, so I experimented with a few ways round this.
None of the above options really worked, I think it was due to the use of block colours, something which none of the recipe cards I looked at had. By removing the boxes completely there is less contrast, which instantly makes it look softer. I will still use the same grid, but it will just be less defined.
I could use a gradient background like this, where the colour starts to fade as it goes down the list of ingredients.
Or I could use a plain coloured background, I would have to use a tint of the colour that I have been using though, to make it look softer, something like this colour.
I think both options are feasible, I'll come back to this and decide at the end.
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