Plain Lab · notebook
Dotted Notebook 5 mm
A 5.00 mm dot lattice drawn as vector geometry, thirty-six rows to an A5 page.
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
- 5.00 mm · 14.17 pt
- Rows per page
- 36
The lattice is 5.00 mm exactly, thirty-six rows down the page, printed as vector geometry rather than a tiled image. Dots guide without boxing anything in. Nothing on the page is committed to prose or to a grid until you commit it.
The pitch is the specification, so it is printed here rather than left for the parcel to reveal. Dot weight is 0.4 pt, fine enough to sit under handwriting instead of competing with it.
Because every dot is drawn as geometry rather than tiled from a bitmap, the page holds its edge at any magnification. It also keeps the file small, which matters more than it sounds like it should.
What is inside
- Dotted pages
- 132pp
- A 5.00 mm lattice at 0.4 pt, vector throughout.
- Reference
- 6pp
- Conversions computed from definitions, emergency numbers checked against two sources, and a point-to-communicate page.
- Last leaf
- 1pp
- A pen test page, printed on purpose because the back leaf gets used that way regardless.
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 5 mmSame ruling, other trimdot at 5.0 mm: 36 lines at a5 against 30 at 5x7
- Dotted Notebook 4 mmA finer pitch5.0 mm to 4.0 mm
Questions
What is the dot spacing?
5.00 mm, measured off the finished page rather than off the intention.
How many dot rows per page?
36 down an A5 page.
Will the dots show through my writing?
They are set at 0.4 pt, fine enough to sit under handwriting.
Is there a finer version?
Yes, the Dotted Notebook 4 mm. A 5 x 7 insert for a leather cover also exists.
Is it dated?
No, so it does not expire.
Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
