Printable Paper

This page draws one sheet of paper to your settings and sends it to your printer at its true size: graph paper for maths, plotting and floor plans; dot paper for bullet journals and sketching; lined paper for writing; and isometric paper for drawing three-dimensional shapes. Nothing is uploaded and there is nothing to sign up for. The sheet is drawn in your browser, and the settings travel in the page's link, so a teacher can send a class exactly the paper they want.

Spacing. Set it in millimetres or inches. Graph and lined paper measure it between neighbouring lines, dot paper between neighbouring dots, and isometric paper as the side of each triangle. Common choices are 5 mm or a quarter inch (6.35 mm) for graph paper, 5 mm for dot grids, and 7 to 9 mm for lined paper; 1 mm graph paper is the engineer's fine grid. The grid is centred on the page in whole squares, so no row or column is cut short at an edge.

Index lines and axes. "Heavier line every" draws every fifth or tenth line thicker, the way engineering paper marks centimetres or inches, so you can count squares at a glance. On graph paper, the x and y axes option draws two heavier lines through the middle of the grid for plotting coordinates, and the heavier lines are then counted from the axes outwards.

Isometric paper is a grid of equilateral triangles: vertical lines and two sets of lines at 30 degrees either side of horizontal. Drawing along them gives a cube or a building its three visible faces with no perspective, the way technical drawings and many video-game maps show depth.

Printing at true size. The Print button opens your browser's print dialog with only the sheet: no site header, no controls. The grid keeps a margin of at least 14 mm from every edge, which every printer can reach, and is drawn at its real size inside it. In the dialog, choose the same paper size as here and print at "100%" or "Actual size" rather than "Fit to page", or the spacing will shrink. The dialog can also save the sheet as a PDF. Download SVG keeps the sheet as a vector drawing at true size, and Download PNG saves it at 300 dots per inch.

Colours. Pale blue lines on white are the default, as on most graph pads, because they guide the pen without competing with what you draw. Any line or paper colour works; a light grey on white photocopies more cleanly, and black lines are the choice when the grid itself is the drawing.