Plain Lab · notebook
Hex Grid Insert
A hexagon tessellation across every page, thirty rows deep, for drawing that a square grid keeps fighting.
Specification
- Trim
- 127 × 177.8 mm · 5 × 7 in
- Pages
- 128
- Leaves
- 64
- Sheets
- 32
- Signatures
- 4 × 32pp
- Spine
- 7.32 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- hex
- Ruling pitch
- 4.94 mm · 14.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 30
A square grid draws a square with no effort and a hexagon badly. This grid does the opposite. Pointy-top hexagons tile the page edge to edge, sharing a wall wherever two of them meet. A shape built from hexagons reads as one continuous surface, not as a set of lines forced into a hex outline after the fact.
Hex grids turn up wherever a plane needs dividing into cells that touch each other the same way in every direction. A hand-drawn map with consistent movement costs, a beadwork pattern, a stitch count: all of them want a hexagon, not a square. Thirty rows fit the page at 4.94 millimetre pitch, tight enough to hold a detailed map without every cell needing a magnifying glass.
The grid does not care what gets drawn inside it. It holds a hand-drawn map exactly as well as it holds nothing at all.
What is inside
- Notes
- 125pp
- Pointy-top hexagon tessellation, edge to edge, thirty rows to the page at 4.94 mm pitch.
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
- Hex Grid NotebookSame ruling, other trimhex at 4.94 mm: 35 lines at a5 against 30 at 5x7
Questions
How is the hexagon oriented?
Pointy-top, tiled edge to edge with no gap between cells.
What is the pitch?
4.94 millimetres, thirty rows to the page.
How does this compare to the A5 hex notebook?
Same grid, thirty rows here against thirty-five there. The smaller sheet holds fewer rows.
Does it come with a cover?
No. It is the sewn block, sized for a leather cover made separately.
Is it dated?
No.
The primary shadow is always the basis of the derived shadow.
