Plain Lab · notebook
Ruled Insert College
College ruling at 9/32 inch, 7.14 mm, twenty-one lines to this page against twenty-four on the A5 edition of the same pitch.
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
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
- Rows per page
- 21
College rule is an American paper convention fixed at 9/32 of an inch between lines, which comes out to 7.14 millimetres. On this shelf it sits one step coarser than the version at 7.0 mm and one step finer than the version at 8.73 mm. Twenty-one lines fit a page at this pitch.
The A5 edition of the same ruling holds twenty-four lines instead of twenty-one. The pitch does not change between the two trims. The page does.
None of the pitches on this shelf is more correct than the others. A finer one suits a small hand and a dense page. A coarser one suits large handwriting or a page meant to be read back quickly. College sits where it has always sat, in the middle.
What is inside
- Notes
- 125pp
- College ruling, 7.14 mm pitch (9/32 in), twenty-one lines to the page.
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
- Lined Insert 7 mmA finer pitch7.14 mm to 7.0 mm
- Ruled Insert WideA coarser pitch8.73 mm to 7.14 mm
- Ruled Notebook CollegeSame ruling, other trimlined at 7.14 mm: 24 lines at a5 against 21 at 5x7
Questions
What is college ruling?
An American paper standard, 9/32 inch between lines, 7.14 mm.
How many lines are on a page?
Twenty-one, against twenty-four on the A5 edition of the identical pitch.
How does this compare to the neighbouring pitches on this shelf?
One step finer sits at 7.0 mm, one step coarser at 8.73 mm. College sits between them at 7.14 mm.
Is it dated?
No.
Does it come with a cover?
No. It is the sewn block, sized for a leather cover made separately.
In the practice of those things, which the nature of man, as he is a man, doth require.
