Plain Lab · notebook
Squared Notebook 2 mm
A 2.0 mm squared grid across the page, eighty-seven rows deep, fine enough for chart work rather than everyday writing.
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
- 2.00 mm · 5.67 pt
- Rows per page
- 87
Most squared paper sold for a notebook runs at five millimetres or wider, a spacing an ordinary hand can rule a table inside without the lines closing in on each other. This grid is finer: two millimetres between lines, eighty-seven rows down the page. At that pitch a single square is not much wider than a pencil tip.
The lines are drawn as vector geometry, not laid down as a tiled bitmap, so a square this small still holds a clean edge when the page is enlarged on a screen. Two millimetres is close to the finest pitch a page can hold before two neighbouring lines start to read as one.
It is not a page built for a shopping list. Writing a sentence inside a square this size means writing between the lines rather than on them, and most hands tire of that within a paragraph.
What is inside
- Grid
- 110pp
- Two millimetres between lines, eighty-seven rows to the page, fine enough for chart work.
- 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
- Lined Notebook 6 mmAlso in Plain Lab
- Squared Notebook 4 mmAlso in Plain Lab
- Lined Notebook 7 mmAlso in Plain Lab
- Squared Notebook 5 mmAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
How fine is the grid?
Two millimetres between lines, eighty-seven rows down the page.
Is the grid printed as an image?
No, it is drawn as vector lines, so it holds a sharp edge at any zoom instead of softening like a scanned grid.
How big is the book?
A5, one hundred and twenty pages, six sewn signatures of twenty.
Is it dated?
No, so it never expires.
Who is two millimetres too fine for?
Anyone writing full sentences by hand. It suits counting squares more than filling them.
What number may have sunk under them we can never know.
