Plain Lab · notebook
Ruled Notebook College
College ruled, quantified: nine thirty-seconds of an inch, 7.14 mm, twenty-four lines to the 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
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
- Rows per page
- 24
College ruled is a phrase used constantly and defined almost nowhere. The number behind it is nine thirty-seconds of an inch, 7.14 mm, and twenty-four of those rules fill the page top to bottom.
The same pitch runs finer and coarser on the same shelf: 7.0 mm one step down, 8.0 mm one step up, both close enough to college ruling that the difference only shows up with a ruler against the page rather than by eye.
None of that changes what the page is for. It stays a plain ruled sheet; what is different is that the pitch behind 'college ruled' is printed here exactly, instead of left for a ruler to find out later.
What is inside
- Notes
- 130pp
- Lined at 7.14 mm (9/32 in), twenty-four rules to the page.
- Reference and furniture
- 10pp
- Conversion tables, emergency numbers, and the pen test leaf that closes the block.
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 Notebook 7 mmA finer pitch7.14 mm to 7.0 mm
- Lined Notebook 8 mmA coarser pitch8.0 mm to 7.14 mm
- Ruled Insert CollegeSame ruling, other trimlined at 7.14 mm: 24 lines at a5 against 21 at 5x7
Questions
What does 'college ruled' actually measure?
Nine thirty-seconds of an inch, 7.14 mm, twenty-four rules to the page.
Is there a finer or coarser version?
Yes: 7.0 mm one step finer, 8.0 mm one step coarser, both close to college ruling by eye.
Is there a smaller version of this exact ruling?
Yes. The Ruled Insert College carries the same 7.14 mm pitch cut for a 5 x 7 leather cover, twenty-one lines to the page instead of twenty-four.
Is it dated?
No.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 140 pages, 8.01 mm across the spine.
Even where it is thought of at all, the most extraordinary misconceptions reign about it.
