Dot Grid · 1/4"

About Dot Grid · 1/4"

A 1/4 inch (6.35 mm) dot lattice - the imperial counterpart to the standard 5 mm metric dot grid. Used in nearly every American notebook brand, including Field Notes, Baron Fig, and Rhodia North America. Further reading: A practitioner reading list covers the standards lineage in more depth.

Standards lineage

No formal standard; pitch matches imperial 1/4" cell of US engineering paper.

A short history

The 1/4" dot grid emerged as the dominant US notebook ruling after Baron Fig launched the Confidant in 2014 and Field Notes followed with their dot variant.

Where designers reach for it

• American bullet-journal practice
• Engineering field notebooks
• Lab-bench sketches and quick calculations
• Sketchnoting at conferences

Printing this grid

Every variant on this page is delivered as a vector SVG with physical millimetre dimensions baked into the file, so a compliant printer driver will reproduce it at exact 1:1 scale by default. Choose the sheet size that matches your printer tray, set scaling to 100 % (never "fit to page"), and verify with the calibration check on our how-to-print guide. Buyer's guide: Comparing the major architectural scale rulers can help you pick the right physical scale rule to use over the printed grid.