How is strict alignment different from non-strict alignment?

Question

Design

The main purpose of alignment is to combine and organize information on a page. As a rule, it is strict alignment (of course, in combination with the appropriate font) that gives the text either a refined, or official, or funny, or serious look. There is always something in the text that makes it possible to align elements, even if the aligned parts of the text are far apart.
Here is a quote from Design for Non-Designers. I can’t really find information anywhere on what is the difference between strict and non-strict alignment. If you have a design guru among you, explain to the newbie what the difference is between these alignments.

Answer 1

Hello, I recommend that you study what types of layout elements exist and how they can be separated.
Bureau Tip, Basic Layout Elements
This tip has 12 more links to this topic, including one about alignment and rhythm alternation. And on the bureau’s website itself, in the tips, you can look for additional answers, I don’t attach them, since you will intuitively find the ones you need.
On my own behalf, I can add that strict sites, for example, a legal services site, can allow non-strict alignment of blocks, sales will not fall from this, since first of all, high-quality text and the meanings that we convey.
To make a sharp jump, I recommend:
1) A selection of advice from the editor-in-chief on the textthere are a lot of them, you can’t master it in a month if you carefully read and understand, but in 2 months, with a video on his channel, it’s quite.
2) A. Gorbunov's book Typography and layout (you can buy a subscription on the bureau's website, or you can download it from the network, for example from VK)
3) James Felici, Typography: font, layout, design. Wow, awesome guide. It is not easy to read. There is a lot of information, almost 500 pages. But after it, you will make decisions in layout at the speed of light. (and this is very important for a good responsive site, for example, complex tables, etc.).
4) Jan Tschichold: The appearance of the book. I'm re-reading it now and I find something new that I didn't notice before. It will also help with layout speed.
5) Edward Tufte. I recommend googling it. and Brockman, Modular Grids in Graphic Design.
6) Exercise. Once I went and bought about 700 sheets of A4, thick, these are several albums, there were also A2. And in turn, everyone painted with a brush, black paint, gray paint, red. I drew stripes, imitating text, headings, drew squares, imagining that these were pictures. Well, all sorts of circles. It took me a few weeks to not be lazy. But after 300 sheets, I began to improvise and self-taught, the taste began to develop. I did it symmetrically, asymmetrically, with stripes, rectangles, squares and circles. And the realization came. And then the understanding came when you need your own grids.
7) style guides

Answer 2

Alignment differences are determined by the composition of the entire page. If I understand the question correctly.
In general, pictures should be attached.