Plain Lab · notebook
Dotted Notebook 4 mm
A5 dot grid at 4.0 millimetres, forty-six rows to the page, drawn as vector geometry rather than a bitmap.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 140
- Leaves
- 70
- Sheets
- 35
- Signatures
- 7 × 20pp
- Spine
- 8.01 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- dot
- Ruling pitch
- 4.00 mm · 11.34 pt
- Rows per page
- 46
Four millimetres, corner to corner: that is the specification, and on a page sold for its ruling it is the only fact worth arguing about. Forty-six rows fit the column at that pitch, run the same distance apart from the first page to the last, with no divider or index interrupting the count.
The dot is drawn, not tiled. A grid built from a repeated bitmap goes soft at the edges the moment somebody zooms into a scan or a print run enlarges it past its own resolution; a grid built from vector lines does not, because there is no fixed resolution to run out of. Most listings for a dotted page stop at the words 'dot grid' and leave the spacing to arrive with the parcel.
This one states it up front: 4.0 millimetres, one hundred thirty-two ruled pages, plain. Nothing on the page explains what the grid is for. That was never this book's job.
What is inside
- Dots
- 132pp
- One continuous run of 4 mm dot ruling, drawn as vector lines so it holds its edge at any zoom.
- Reference
- 8pp
- Owner details, unit conversions computed from definitions, and the pen test leaf.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Dotted Insert 4 mmSame ruling, other trimdot at 4.0 mm: 46 lines at a5 against 38 at 5x7
- Dotted Notebook 5 mmA coarser pitch5.0 mm to 4.0 mm
Questions
What is the exact dot spacing?
4.0 millimetres, measured centre to centre.
How many rows fit a page?
Forty-six, at that pitch.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 140 pages, 8.01 mm across the spine.
Is the grid printed as a bitmap image?
No. Every dot is a drawn point in the page's own geometry, so it stays sharp at any zoom rather than softening like a tiled scan.
Is it dated?
No.
Nothing must be thought to belong to a man, which doth not belong unto him as he is a man.
