Letter tracing workbooks for Amazon KDP · A–Z tracing workbook · Handwriting paper · Name tracing
Type a name and get a printable PDF. The sheet shows it large at the top, with a numbered green dot where each stroke starts and a red arrow for the way it goes. Below that are rows of the name in dots to trace, and empty lines at the bottom to write it without help. Print it at home. It's free, with no sign-up, and the name never leaves your browser.
Paste your class list and get one PDF with a sheet for every child, up to 60 names, with no footer line. That comes with Trace Press, $19 once: the same licence as the workbooks, for one teacher.
The height from the top line to the baseline. Bigger lines are for younger hands. A long name gets smaller letters so it fits across the page.
Print, with numbered start dots and arrows, or joined cursive: the name solid once, then grey rows to write over.
For printing at home, 8.5" × 11" is US Letter.
One page, like this one for Maya. The name once, big, with start dots and arrows on every letter, in the same print letters as the Trace Press workbook. Then the name in dotted letters, repeated across each row as many times as it fits. The last rows are blank four-line guides: a solid top line, a dashed midline, a solid baseline and a dotted line for tails. Pick Cursive under Handwriting and the name is joined instead (see a cursive name tracing worksheet), in the same cursive as the cursive worksheets: once in solid letters, then rows in light grey to write over.
The line size sets how many rows fit on the page, and the name's length sets how many times it fits across a row. Here are Maya (four letters) and Christopher (eleven) in print on a US Letter sheet. The last column is the size of the big name at the top, against Maya's.
| Line size | Rows to trace | Rows to write | Maya a row | Christopher a row | Christopher at top |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1" (ages 4–5) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44% |
| 0.75" (ages 5–7) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 57% |
| 0.6" (ages 7–9) | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 74% |
| 0.45" (older) | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 95% |
At 1" lines one copy of Christopher doesn't fit across a row, so its tracing rows use 0.8" lines instead, which leaves room for four rows to trace and two to write. The big name at the top carries the start dots and arrows, and a long name shrinks most there: Christopher's is drawn at 44% of Maya's size on 1" lines and at 95% on 0.45" lines. Measured in inches, that comes out the same at every line size: for a long name it's the width of the page, not the line size, that sets how big the name at the top is drawn. The line size still sets the tracing rows.
Capitals A–Z, lowercase a–z, the accented letters in names like Sofía, José, Zoë, Noël and Ñúñez (á é í ó ú ý, à è ì ò ù, â ê î ô û, ä ë ï ö ü ÿ, ã õ ñ, å, capitals too), and the numbers 0–9, up to 16 characters and spaces. Hyphens, apostrophes, ç, ø and æ are drawn too, so "Mary-Kate O'Neil", "François" and "Søren" trace as spelled; ß, œ and other punctuation aren't drawn yet. The note under the name box says when something was left out.
The sheet traces the name exactly as it is typed: MAYA comes out in capitals, Maya as a capital and then lowercase. The start dots show what that changes. Each dot is one time the pencil goes down, and capitals take more of them: E takes 4; A, F, H and I take 3 each. Every lowercase letter takes 1 or 2. So Maya is 6 strokes and MAYA is 10; Christopher is 13 and CHRISTOPHER is 24. Either can be printed: type it both ways and print one sheet of each.
The same dots and arrows come in free holiday sets, one PDF each with 20 words and a picture to colour on every page: Thanksgiving tracing worksheets (pumpkin, apple, acorn, maple and more) and Christmas tracing worksheets (mug to gingerbread).
Trace Press makes a full A–Z letter tracing workbook with these same letters and guides, plus its cover, laid out to Amazon KDP's rules so it can be sold as a paperback. It's free to try; $19 once makes it ready to sell. Or see a finished book first.