Plain Lab · notebook
Handwriting Practice Notebook
Ruled at 10.58 mm, sixteen lines to the page, wide enough to leave room above and below the letter as well as around it.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- handwriting
- Ruling pitch
- 10.58 mm · 30.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 16
An ordinary ruled line gives a letter room to sit on. It does not give an ascender room to rise or a descender room to drop, so tall and low strokes crowd the line above and below. The rule here sits at 10.58 mm, wider than a notebook line, sixteen to the page, built for the shape of a letter rather than just its body.
The pitch is the whole specification. There is no copybook alphabet printed down the margin and no model hand to trace. What is on the page is the space a hand needs to move in, repeated for however many pages you fill before the shape settles.
The ruling holds the line steady. Repeating the letter enough times to change it is still the part nobody can print for you.
What is inside
- Practice pages
- 110pp
- Ruled at 10.58 mm, wide enough for an ascender and a descender on the same line.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Conversion tables computed from definitions and emergency numbers checked against two sources.
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
- Handwriting InsertSame ruling, other trimhandwriting at 10.58 mm: 16 lines at a5 against 14 at 5x7
- Language InsertSame ruling, other trimhandwriting at 10.58 mm: 13 lines at 5x7 against 16 at a5
Questions
Does it teach a handwriting style?
No. There is no model alphabet printed on the page, just the ruling.
How wide is the rule?
10.58 mm, sixteen lines to the page, wider than ordinary ruled paper so an ascender and a descender both fit on one line.
Is it for cursive or print?
Either. The ruling doesn't specify a style, only the room a letter has to work in.
Is it dated?
No.
Is there a smaller version?
Yes. The Handwriting Insert carries the same 10.58 mm rule cut for a leather cover, at sixteen lines against the fourteen a smaller trim allows.
In the practice of those things, which the nature of man, as he is a man, doth require.
