Turn the 26 letters into four-line tracing sheets in one click: uppercase, lowercase or both, four tracing styles, three school handwriting fonts, A4/A3 layout, ready to print or export
The layout is calculated in millimetres, so the four horizontal lines and the three bands between them are strictly equal. Capitals, x-height and descenders each land where they should, and what you print is what you see.
Press "All A-Z" to build a complete alphabet workbook at once, or pick just a few letters to drill. Uppercase, lowercase and mixed forms are all available.
A school handwriting font (slanted, single-storey a and g), an upright print font and a handwritten print font. All are open-source and free for commercial use, with no licensing worries.
Dotted tracing, light grey tracing, hollow outline and a solid black model letter. Dotted tracing feels closest to a real paper dot-to-dot sheet and saves the most ink.
A4, A3 or Letter, portrait or landscape, with adjustable line height, row spacing and page margin. Longer sets are paginated automatically with page numbers.
Layout and image export all happen in your browser. Nothing you type leaves your device, there is no sign-up, and the tool works as soon as the page opens.
Pick uppercase, lowercase or both, then click the letters you want in the grid. "All A-Z" selects all 26 at once, and "Vowels only" quickly narrows the selection to A E I O U.
Beginners do best with "Dotted outline" or "Light grey"; switch to "Hollow outline" once they can write and want to work on structure. The default school handwriting font is the closest match to the handwriting model taught in primary schools.
Drag "Line height" to change the height of each band on the four-line paper (3 mm by default, so the three bands total 9 mm), and drag "Row spacing" to control how tightly the rows sit. Then choose the paper size, orientation and margin, and switch the header on if you need it.
The preview on the right updates live; use "Previous / Next" for multi-page worksheets. Press "Print worksheet" to print every page, or "Export PNG" to save the current page as a 300 DPI image.
Start with a handful of letters such as A to F, using a large line height and dotted tracing, so children first build the instinct for which band a letter belongs in.
Follow the order of the textbook, generate tracing sheets in the school handwriting font, and correct the shape of lowercase a and g as well as the letter slant.
One set of letters per lesson, photocopied as tracing and free-writing sheets. The header can carry the class and the pupil's name, which makes marking and filing easier.
One letter a day, one tracing line plus one blank line, printed on A4. No need to buy a separate letter practice book.
Generate worksheets in different fonts for different class levels in bulk, and export them as PNG to drop into slides or build a digital workbook.
Adults benefit too: use the hollow outline to work on letter structure, then the blank cells to write from memory, gradually moving away from stiff, print-like handwriting.
Four-line paper is made of four parallel horizontal lines that divide a line into three equal bands: the ascender space, the x-height space and the descender space. The top line is the ascender line, the second is the midline, the third is the baseline and the bottom is the descender line. Letters sit on the baseline, and their height is governed by the top line and the midline. Primary school textbooks and exercise books use this ruling because it constrains both the height of a letter and the point where it lands.
Capital letters (A to Z) reach the top line and sit on the baseline, occupying the top two bands. Lowercase letters fall into three groups: a c e m n o r s u v w x z fill only the middle band; b d f h k l t occupy the top two bands; and g j p q y occupy the middle band and drop into the bottom band. In addition, the dots of i and j sit in the top band. Keep this rule in mind and words will come out evenly sized.
Dotted tracing draws the letter outline as a dashed line so the child follows the dots; the pen has to actively control direction, which trains stroke order and control, and it uses the least ink. Light grey tracing uses a pale grey solid letter that the child writes straight over; it is forgiving and suits very young learners. A good progression is light grey first to find the feel, then dotted tracing to work on control, and finally blank cells to write unaided.
In print fonts the lowercase a and g are usually double-storey, while handwriting normally uses a single-storey a and g, with completely different stroke paths. Copying a print font teaches a child to draw the letter rather than to write it stroke by stroke. The default school handwriting font here is a slanted, single-storey teaching font that matches the handwriting models used in primary school textbooks.
Line height means the height of each of the three bands. Young children have weaker hand control, so 4 to 5 mm per band (12 to 15 mm total) gives them room to form strokes properly. Older primary pupils can use 3 mm (9 mm total), which is the common specification of commercially printed exercise books. If you simply want more rows per sheet, 2 to 2.5 mm still works, but going smaller than that is not advisable.
| Category | Letters | Bands used |
|---|---|---|
| Uppercase | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top two bands (reach the top line, sit on the baseline) |
| Lowercase · middle band only | a c e m n o r s u v w x z | Middle band |
| Lowercase · with ascender | b d f h k l t | Top two bands |
| Lowercase · with descender | g j p q y | Middle and bottom bands |
| Lowercase · special | i j | Dot in the top band, body in the middle band (j also drops into the bottom band) |