Pothooks, printable handwriting sheets
Handwriting sheets drawn in your browser and written to a file there. Type a name, choose the ruling, and take the PDF.
Take one as it stands
Each of these writes a PDF on the spot, at the ruling shown. Open the sheet itself to change the size, the hand or the letter first.
- Name tracing
9mm ruling · print · 8 lines
- Letter tracing
9mm ruling · print · 8 lines
- Cursive alphabet
9mm ruling · cursive · 8 lines
- Alphabet tracing
7mm ruling · print · 10 lines
- Handwriting practice paper
9mm ruling · 8 lines
- Number tracing
9mm ruling · print · 8 lines
- Cursive worksheets
9mm ruling · cursive · 8 lines
- Preschool letter tracing
12mm ruling · print · 6 lines
Every sheet on this site is drawn here, in the page you are reading, and the PDF is written here too. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is fetched. A name you type is set by code running in this page and never leaves your machine.
The letters are not a typeface
They are stroke alphabets, drawn from geometry as the paths a pen takes. That is the difference between tracing a letter and tracing a picture of one: an outline has two sides, so going over a printed outline means drawing every letter twice. It is also why a sheet here can put a dot where a stroke begins and number the strokes when a letter takes more than one. A typeface has no first stroke and no direction.
The ruling is the whole sheet
Everything follows from the x-height: a writing band is three x-heights of writing with air beneath it, a small letter is one x-height tall and a capital is two. Choosing that size in millimetres is the one control that matters, and it is why a worksheet printed at the wrong size is no use to the child it was printed for.
It prints in black
Handwriting paper is conventionally ruled in blue with a red dashed midline. These sheets are not, because a guide line that vanishes on a mono printer is a guide line that arrives as nothing at all. The x-height line is dashed instead, and a dash survives any printer.
Every sheet
Printed letters
Names and numbers
Ruled paper