Spiral Graph Paper
Evenly spaced coils or the golden logarithmic spiral, drawn to trace, to design on, or to lay out a composition against.
Evenly spaced coils or the golden logarithmic spiral, drawn to trace, to design on, or to lay out a composition against.
Choose Spiral Graph 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.
An Archimedean spiral gains the same distance on every turn, so the gap between coils never changes. It is the groove on a record, the coil of a rope, and the layout behind spiral mandalas and rose windows. A logarithmic spiral instead multiplies its radius by a fixed ratio each quarter turn, so it grows without ever changing shape — the nautilus shell, the seed head, the hurricane.
At 162% growth per quarter turn the logarithmic spiral is the golden spiral, which approximates the sequence of squares built on the Fibonacci numbers. Lower the growth and the coil tightens; raise it and it opens out.
Rotation sets where the spiral starts, which matters when you are composing to it.
Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.
162% per quarter turn. That is the golden ratio, 1.618, applied every 90° — the spiral that fits the Fibonacci rectangles.
Archimedean. Evenly spaced coils give you concentric bands of the same width to fill, which is what a mandala needs.
Because it is — a logarithmic spiral has no centre in the ordinary sense, it only approaches one. Use the rotation setting to turn it to where you want it.
