Plain Lab · notebook
Ruled Insert Wide
Wide ruling at 11/32 inch, 8.73 mm, seventeen lines to this page against nineteen at A5.
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
- 8.73 mm · 24.75 pt · 11/32 in
- Rows per page
- 17
Wide ruling gives a large hand room it does not get on the finer pitches on this shelf. Seventeen lines fit the page at 8.73 mm, 11/32 of an inch, against twenty-one at the college pitch.
Fewer lines is not a loss on this ruling. It is the point. A page meant to be read back quickly, or written by a hand that has not yet learned to write small, gets more air around each line and less crowding at the margin.
A wide page fills faster than a narrow one, which some people read as generous and others read as a page that runs out too soon. Both readings are correct at the same time.
What is inside
- Notes
- 125pp
- Wide ruling, 8.73 mm pitch (11/32 in), seventeen 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
- Ruled Insert CollegeA finer pitch8.73 mm to 7.14 mm
- Ruled Notebook WideSame ruling, other trimlined at 8.73 mm: 19 lines at a5 against 17 at 5x7
Questions
What is the line pitch?
11/32 inch, 8.73 mm, seventeen lines to the page.
How does this compare to college ruling?
College sits at 7.14 mm and fits twenty-one lines. Wide is the more generous of the two.
Who does a wide pitch suit?
Large handwriting, or a page meant to be scanned back quickly rather than packed with notes.
Is it dated?
No.
Does it come with a cover?
No. It is the sewn block, sized for a leather cover made separately.
Their bulk is large, and we can easily apply experiments to them.
