Plain Lab · notebook
Seyes Ruled Notebook
French school ruling: a horizontal rule at 8.01 mm crossed by a vertical grid, twenty-one rows to the page.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- seyes
- Ruling pitch
- 8.01 mm · 22.70 pt
- Rows per page
- 21
A Seyes page carries two grids at once: a horizontal rule to write on and a vertical grid crossing it, so a line of handwriting has both a baseline and a column to sit inside. The horizontal rule repeats every 8.01 millimetres, twenty-one rows down the page.
The vertical lines do a job a plain ruled page cannot: they hold a letter's width steady across a whole line as much as its height. That is what the format is actually for, keeping the slant and the spacing of handwriting even while the hand doing it is still learning to manage either.
That is a great deal of paper for one hand still finding a comfortable width to write at, and the format offers no shortcut through it.
What is inside
- Seyes ruling
- 110pp
- Horizontal rule at 8.01 mm crossed by a vertical grid, twenty-one 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.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Manuscript NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Handwriting Practice NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Polar Grid NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Sermon and Lecture NotesAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
What is Seyes ruling?
A horizontal rule crossed by a vertical grid, the French school ruling, at 8.01 mm.
What does the vertical grid do?
It holds a letter's width steady across a line, not only its height, which a plain ruled page cannot do.
How many rows to a page?
Twenty-one.
How big is the book?
A5, one hundred and twenty pages, six sewn signatures of twenty.
Is it dated?
No, so it starts at the first lesson.
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