Narrow-ruled lined paper: 6.4mm line spacing, more text per page.

Free narrow-ruled lined paper. 6.4mm spacing. Fits more text per page than college or wide ruled.

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Narrow Ruled Lined Paper

Write a paragraph at your natural size on narrow ruled before committing to it for a project. If your descenders cross into the next line, the spacing is too tight for your hand and college ruled will serve you better.

Test with your handwriting first

0.3 to 0.5 mm pens are the sweet spot. Anything wider produces ink that visually doubles the line height. Pencil at H or HB also works well. Softer leads (2B+) smudge across the tight spacing.

Pair with fine pens

Narrow ruled is excellent for fast capture of dense information (lectures, meetings, references) but uncomfortable for re-reading at length. Many writers use narrow ruled for raw notes and transcribe key passages to wider-ruled paper for study.

Use for capture, not review

On narrow ruled, leaving a blank line between paragraphs has more visual impact than on wider rulings, it gives the eye somewhere to rest. Use it generously to break up long passages.