A5 narrow ruled notebook standing closed on a plain surface, composition-style cover with a tiled illustration field and a label plate, about eight millimetres thick.

Plain Lab · notebook

Ruled Notebook Narrow

Narrow ruled, quantified: 6.35 mm between lines, the quarter-inch US standard, twenty-seven rows 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: 6.35 mm · 18.00 pt · 1/4 in
Rows per page: 27

Narrow ruled is a phrase most stationery aisles print on the cover and never explain. Here it is a quarter of an inch between lines, 6.35 millimetres, twenty-seven rows down the page. That is the actual US paper standard behind the words, not a rounded guess at it.

The pitch comes from the definition itself: one quarter of an inch, which is 6.35 millimetres, not a figure rounded off a printed page after the fact. Every rule on the page is vector geometry, plotted rather than photographed from a tile, so a hairline this fine never turns into a blur when the page is magnified.

It sits between the other two American rulings on this shelf: wider on one side, narrower on the other. This is the one most people mean by narrow without ever saying the number.

What is inside

Ruled pages: 130pp; 6.35 mm pitch, the quarter-inch US standard, twenty-seven rows to the page.
Reference: 10pp; Owner page, conversion tables computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent 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.

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

Real pages

Five pages from the Ruled Notebook Narrow shown as cards: a narrow-ruled page, a section divider, a conversion table, a world map page, and the pen test page. — Five pages rendered straight from the print file: the narrow rule, a section divider, the conversion tables, the world map page, and the pen test leaf at the back. Every rule is vector geometry, so a hairline this fine never turns into a blur when the page is magnified.

Specification card for the Ruled Notebook Narrow listing 130 lined pages, 6.35 mm pitch, 27 rows, 140 pages total, A5 trim. — One hundred and thirty lined pages at 6.35 mm, a quarter inch, twenty-seven rows to the page. Ten pages of reference follow: an owner page, conversion tables computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources. One hundred and forty pages total, A5, seven sewn signatures of twenty.

Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker

Books that sit alongside it

Lined Notebook 6 mmA finer pitch6.35 mm to 6.0 mm
Lined Notebook 7 mmA coarser pitch7.0 mm to 6.35 mm
Ruled Insert NarrowSame ruling, other trimlined at 6.35 mm: 27 lines at a5 against 24 at 5x7