Cross Grid Paper
A tiny plus at every intersection and nothing in between, so the grid is there to measure against but quiet under your writing.
A tiny plus at every intersection and nothing in between, so the grid is there to measure against but quiet under your writing.
Choose Cross Grid Paper from the list. It opens with the usual size already set.
Pick the paper size, the grid and the orientation. Customize holds colours, margins and more.
Download the ready PDF, or print straight from the page at 100% scale.
A ruled grid competes with everything you put on it — writing sits in a cage, a sketch fights the lines. Crosses give you the same intersections to work to, but the page between them stays white. It is the compromise dot grid made popular, with one advantage over dots: a cross has direction, so you can line something up horizontally or vertically against it rather than just landing on it.
The cross length is a percentage of the spacing, so the marks scale with the grid. Around 20% reads as a grid; push it towards 60% and the page starts to look ruled again; drop it to 10% and it is barely more than a dot.
Anywhere you want structure underneath without structure on top.
Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.
A dot marks a position; a cross marks a position and two directions. If you line things up by eye, the arms help. If you want the lightest possible page, dots are lighter.
About 20% of the spacing is the usual balance. Go smaller for a page that barely shows, larger if you want something closer to a ruled grid.
Yes, but keep the line weight at or above 0.15 mm below 5 mm spacing, or an inkjet will drop parts of the shorter arms.
