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Dot Grid Paper

Free printable dot grid paper — dots 5 mm apart across the page, with a name and date line at the top.

First page of the Dot Grid Paper — Get the guidance of squared paper without the ruled lines showing through whatever you draw on it.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.

Print it and write on it

Fill it in type and save

The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.

What this sheet is for

Get the guidance of squared paper without the ruled lines showing through whatever you draw on it.

Who it is for

Bullet journallers, sketchers, planners, and anyone laying something out by hand.

How to use it

  1. Print as many as you need.
  2. The dots are deliberately faint. They guide without dominating.
  3. Print double-sided; the dots do not show through.

What is on the sheet

The layout is fixed at a size that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the A4 and Letter files are visually identical and print at full size on either. Rows are set at a height that an adult can actually write a date and a few words into with a pen — most printable tables are built in a word processor and never tested with one.

Questions

Why dots rather than lines?

Because once you have written or drawn on the page, lines compete with the content and dots disappear. It is the same guidance with less noise, which is why journals use it.

What spacing is it?

5 mm, matching the squared paper, so the two can be used together in the same notebook.

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