Trace Press

Letter tracing workbooks for Amazon KDP · A–Z tracing workbook · Handwriting paper · Name tracing

Handwriting practice paper, as a free PDF

Blank four-line handwriting guides on every page: a solid top line, a dashed midline, a solid baseline and a dotted descender line. Choose a page size, a line size and how many pages. Print it at home, or upload it to Amazon KDP as the interior of a blank handwriting notebook. The margins are already KDP's. It's free, with no footer, no sign-up, and nothing uploaded.

The height from the top line to the baseline. Bigger lines are for younger hands.

24 to 300. KDP's minimum for a paperback is 24 pages. The inside margin grows past 150 pages, as KDP requires.

Only for KDP, and only if you chose bleed there. For printing at home, leave it off and pick 8.5" × 11".

The four lines

The same four lines as every page of the Trace Press workbook. Tall letters (b, d, h, capitals) reach the top line. Small letters (a, c, e) stop at the dashed midline. Every letter sits on the solid baseline, and tails (g, j, p, q, y) drop to the dotted line below it. The line size is the distance from the top line to the baseline: 1" for ages 4–5, down to 0.45" for older children.

How many lines fit on a page

Writing lines on each page, by page size and line size, without bleed:

Page1"0.75"0.6"0.45"
5" × 8"4569
5.5" × 8.5"4579
6" × 9"46710
7" × 10"57811
8" × 10"57811
8.5" × 11"57912

The page count doesn't change these: KDP's wider inside margin for thicker books takes width, not height. Bleed costs one line in three places: 5" × 8" at 0.45" (8), and 7" × 10" and 8" × 10" at 0.75" (6). A 100-page 8.5" × 11" notebook at 0.45" lines has 1,200 lines to write on.

Built to KDP's manuscript rules

Want the letters as well?

Trace Press makes a full A–Z tracing workbook: for each letter, capital and lowercase, a model with numbered start dots and stroke-order arrows, rows of dotted letters to trace, and rows like these for writing it alone. It includes the cover. It's free to try; $19 once makes it ready to sell.