Narrow ruled paper

Narrow ruled is a fair-copy paper rather than a practice one: lists, indexes, a page of notes meant to be kept. Very little classroom writing is set at this size.

No margin line, deliberately. At a quarter of an inch there is not much page left to give away, and this is the ruling people print when they want all of it.

The rules are drawn as real strokes at real sizes — not a picture of lines, and not a background tint. That matters more than it sounds: browsers drop background graphics when printing unless the reader has gone looking for the setting, so ruled paper made the obvious way looks perfect on screen and comes out of the printer blank. Put a ruler on this one. It is the size it says it is.

This sheet is set for US Letter — 8.5 × 11 inches. Paper size is not a preference here: sent to a printer loaded with something else, the browser shrinks the page to fit, and a ruling that has been shrunk is no longer the size it was chosen for. So there is a second copy of this sheet, ruled identically and measured for A4.