If your base gutter is 12, the next step might be 18 or 24. You can also employ units with padding as you mentioned. To keep a well organized grid, you can set the type in some kind of container that adheres to the base grid with the type inset by a unit or two or three.
Updated for January 12, 2017 (Toddlers) patch. Pose Player. This is a mod that will add the option to play poses and animations in game. It adds an interaction to your sims called Pose By Name and Pose By Pack. Just click on your sim like you would to do anything else.
Now your pose is finished! Now you can go in game and check out your pose! How to Use Pose Player: To use the pose player once you are in game, âClick your Simâ and you will see âPose by Packâ. Click that then you will have a new window, scroll through that window until you see your pack. âClick your Packâ then you will see a list of all the poses in your pack.