Plain Lab · notebook
Squared Notebook 10 mm
A 10.0 mm square, wide enough to write a word inside one without crossing into the next.
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
- graph
- Ruling pitch
- 10.00 mm · 28.35 pt
- Rows per page
- 17
Ten millimetres is wide enough to write a whole word inside one square rather than crossing three of them to finish it. Seventeen rows of squares fill the page at that pitch, wider than the graph paper the word 'squared' usually brings to mind.
The same shelf carries a finer version of this grid, with more rows fitted into the same page. This one is the coarser of the two, so it trades density for room: a big numeral, a small table, or a rough diagram fits without the grid arguing over which line it belongs on.
It does not do maths any better than a blank page would. It only keeps whatever gets drawn from drifting sideways while a hand crosses the sheet.
What is inside
- Notes
- 110pp
- Squared at 10.0 mm, seventeen rows 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
- Squared Notebook 6 mmA finer pitch10.0 mm to 6.0 mm
Questions
What is the square size?
10.0 mm, seventeen rows down the page.
Is there a finer grid on the same shelf?
Yes, a finer squared notebook on the same shelf, more rows to the page.
Is the grid printed as a bitmap?
No, as vector lines, so it holds its edge at any zoom rather than softening into a staircase.
Is it dated?
No.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 120 pages, 6.86 mm across the spine.
You observe, we must have made it quite full of steam to have it sent out in that great quantity.
