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.
3 verb If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people. The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders. V as n. 4 verb If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you.