Printable lined paper
College ruled, wide ruled, or handwriting paper with a dashed midline — at the real spacings, not an approximation.
Wide ruled is 8.7 mm between lines, college ruled is 7.1 mm and narrow ruled is 6.4 mm. Those are the actual US paper standards, and they are the presets here.
Handwriting mode adds the midline and descender guides that early writers need, with the dashed middle line they are taught to aim at.
Lined paper by ruling
- College ruled paper7.1 mm line spacing · the US default
- Wide ruled paper8.7 mm line spacing · for larger handwriting
- Narrow ruled paper6.4 mm line spacing · the tightest common ruling
Questions
What is the difference between college and wide ruled?
Line spacing. Wide ruled is 8.7 mm and is used in primary school; college ruled is 7.1 mm and fits about four more lines on a page.
Can I add a margin line?
Yes, on the left, the right, or both, at whatever offset you set.
What are the dashed lines for?
Handwriting practice. Lower-case letters sit between the baseline and the dashed midline; capitals and ascenders reach the top line.
Other tools
- Staff and tab paperBlank manuscript and tablature ruled to a staff height you can measure with a ruler, not to whatever the PDF you found happened to be.
- Beading graph paperCharting paper drawn from the bead's own measurements, so the beads on the page are the size of the beads in the tube.
- Cross stitch pattern paperCharting paper at the size your stitches will actually be, for the count of fabric you actually have.
- English paper piecing templatesPick a shape, type the side length you actually want, and print it at true size.
- Bubble answer sheet generatorScantron-style answer sheets, built to your question count.
- Blank clock facesClock faces with hands drawn where they genuinely belong — at 3:45 the hour hand sits three quarters of the way to four, because that is what a clock does.
- Blank periodic tableEvery blank periodic table online is a fixed image.
- Attendance sheet and gradebook gridsPaste twenty-eight names, choose a month, print.
- Printable graph paperAny spacing you like, in millimetres or inches, printed at true size.
- Printable dot grid paperDot paper at the spacing you actually use — 5 mm for a bullet journal, or whatever you type.
- Year in pixelsOne cell a day for a whole year, drawn for the year you name — so February is the right length and the months stop where they actually stop.
- Savings and goal colouring chartsType your goal and how many cells you want.
