Plain Lab · notebook
Squared Notebook 4 mm
A four-millimetre square grid, forty-six rows to the page, fine enough to hold a scale drawing without the squares arguing with the lines inside them.
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
- graph
- Ruling pitch
- 4.00 mm · 11.34 pt
- Rows per page
- 46
A square grid at 4.00 mm sits closer than the usual graph paper pitch, forty-six rows down an A5 page. At that spacing a small technical drawing can carry real proportion. A bracket, a floor plan, a stitch chart: anything where the grid needs to disappear once the drawing is finished with it.
A coarser square grid works fine for a bar chart or a quick sketch. It starts to fight a drawing that needs four or five squares to a real centimetre, because the lines compete with whatever is drawn over them. This pitch gives that kind of work more room before the grid becomes the loudest thing on the page.
Four millimetres is the whole pitch. Nothing else about the page is decided for you.
What is inside
- Squared pages
- 132pp
- A 4.00 mm grid, forty-six rows to the page, drawn as vector lines.
- Reference
- 8pp
- Conversion tables computed from definitions and emergency numbers checked against two 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
- Cross-Stitch Chart NotebookA finer pitch4.0 mm to 2.0 mm
- Squared Insert 4 mmSame ruling, other trimgraph at 4.0 mm: 46 lines at a5 against 38 at 5x7
- Squared Notebook 5 mmA coarser pitch5.0 mm to 4.0 mm
Questions
How fine is the grid?
4.00 mm squares, forty-six rows down an A5 page.
Is this finer or coarser than ordinary graph paper?
Finer. Most graph paper runs coarser than this; the tighter pitch is built for work that needs real proportion at a small scale.
Is the grid printed as an image?
No, vector lines throughout, so the squares hold their shape at any zoom.
Is it dated?
No.
Is there a finer or coarser version?
Yes. A finer grid exists for detailed chart work, and a coarser one for a looser page.
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