Lined or Blank paper? what do you use?

[Bookman]

I can and do write on all types except lined grids, which I find too obtrusive. Of course, if it's battlefield conditions, I'll even use lined grids.

 

My first choice is dotted. However, while I have at least one Rhodia dot pad within reach at all times (and usually three, all different sizes), I prefer to semi-home-make my own dotted paper at incompetech.com, using beige (color code fdc689) dots, which seem to disappear on the page as soon as I write on them.

[Miaxina]

Wow after 9 years...

 

I can't write straight. That's a fact. My notebooks are usually lined. And I print dot grids onto papers I write on. But the funny part is, I can't write straight even on a lined paper 😅 My words are all over the lines >_<

[Conan the Grammarian]

Grid for note taking. That allows me to line up the indents to align each sub-category and keep my notes organized. For random scribbling or reminders to myself, plain or grid paper will due.

[Studio97]

After 9 years...well this is still a quirky thing with people like us. I use lined and unlined notebooks but if lined i prefer lines not so close together. Need a little space or my writing gets too small. Then i cant read my own writing.

Edited June 20, 2017 by Studio97

[Noihvo]

After 9 years...well this is still a quirky thing with people like us. I use lined and unlined notebooks but if lined i prefer lines not so close together. Need a little space or my writing gets too small. Then i cant read my own writing.

 

[katerchen]

I sometimes use blanks -but- I do print my own backing guide sheets which I cut to size.

 

I found that I like 7mm spacing best.

 

-k

[Studio97]

Lined or unlined sometimes didnt help my writing. Sent letters to my wife when i shipped out in the service. Her mother had to read them to her.

[Mister5]

Most of the time I use lined but I also like grid and once in a while dot. I never use blank. I need lines for shorthand. I don't like wide rule (if there was clairefontaine Triumphe in 6-7 mm rule that would be great!) and tend to write small even in shorthand.

[Almu]

I quite literally use any bit of paper I can find for two reasons; I am cheap and I don't have much money to use on good paper

 

Having said that, nowadays I prefer blank paper. Most of the time I find myself using grid though.

[senzen]

I prefer blank but will use whatever decent paper is available, so I have several Clairefontaine Séyès notebooks.

[FLZapped]

While I prefer blank, often, cheap lined filler paper outperforms it... *grrrrrrr*

[inkstainedruth]

I prefer unlined but it's hard to find journals that have unlined pages, especially when I'm looking for ones with a large capacity, so I get lined ones and write 2 lines for every printed line (I write small).

When I'm trying to do creative writing, I tend to use better quality printer paper, so that's also unlined.

When I'm doing stuff like QotW posts, I use unlined paper but back it with a guideline sheet I printed off for myself which is supposed to be pretty close to standard college rule paper.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[dcwaites]

While I have a range of notebooks, and what ever the ruling they come with (blank, lined 6, 7, 8 mm, grid 5mm, Whitelines ruled and grid) I like the opportunities I have with blank copy paper.

I choose inexpensive cut sheet paper that will feed my printer, and is good with FPs, currently Officeworks house brand J.Burrows Premium.

With that I can print whatever ruling I want on it, and currently printing light grey lines on it. For A5, I use 6mm spacing, B5, 7mm and A4 I use 8mm spacing.

Most of my paper is B5 or smaller, so I use a fine or medium-fine nib (Pilot 742 WA(verley) nib) and that suits my hand nicely.

 

I wanted a bit more flexibility with the ruling for my Kokuyo Campus paper, so I bought a couple of packs of blank paper and print my lines on that.

 

I also have a couple of packets of Nu:Elite refill paper, but don't use it much because I find the 10mm spacing wasteful. (And yes, there is a dissonance between considering using the paper wasteful and leaving it unused on the paper shelf...) Other than that, it's good paper.

[MHBru]

Most always lined... never blank or graph ... just got a dot grid to try and I expect it will be fine.

[inkfade]

When I first started journaling (10+ yrs ago) I used lined, mostly because I didn't know there existed other types. Then when I got into fountain pens and paper I discovered unlined, switched to that. I liked the fact that I could draw and tape in postcards and stuff without it looking odd with lines. But I didn't draw as much as I thought I would, and since I quit my last job, where I could print pictures, etc. for free, I haven't been putting ephemera in my journals. So I am going to give lined another shot once I finish up my current unlined journal.

[Plexipens]

I use both and sometimes even cheat with a lined master sheet behind my unlined Tomoe River ........

[Retro-user]

After reading these comments, I want to try unlined Rhodia or Moleskine notebooks.

[GranTorino25]

I use both and sometimes even cheat with a lined master sheet behind my unlined Tomoe River ........

I recently came across an Australia site that turns Tomoe River into A4 pads and sends a card with lined on one side, grid on the other. So you end up with the best of both worlds- straight writing with no lines on the page!

[dcwaites]

I recently came across an Australia site that turns Tomoe River into A4 pads and sends a card with lined on one side, grid on the other. So you end up with the best of both worlds- straight writing with no lines on the page!

 

Linky, please.

[GranTorino25]

https://www.bookbindersonline.com.au/collections/fountain-pen-paper/products/a4-pad-cream-trp?variant=24991839433

 

Considering a loose leaf pad is $20-25, seems pretty reasonable to me!