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.
Buster Posey will be a star for years to come if he stays healthy; that much is already Skip-Bayless-is-an-idiot obvious. The youngster has played 308 games and accumulated 1,255 plate appearances over parts of four Major League Baseball seasons.