5mm Graph Paper
Printable 5 mm grid paper on A4, A3, Letter and more: a vector PDF whose squares really measure 5 mm, or PNG / JPG. Free, made in your browser.
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Printable 5 mm grid paper on A4, A3, Letter and more: a vector PDF whose squares really measure 5 mm, or PNG / JPG. Free, made in your browser.
Five millimetre squares are the everyday grid: the paper in school exercise books across Europe and Asia, the sheet for hand-drawn floor plans at 1:100 (one square is half a metre), knitting and cross-stitch charts, and rough engineering sketches where a 1 cm grid is too coarse and 2 mm too fine. This page prints it: a 5 mm grid on A4, A3, A5, Letter, Legal or Tabloid, portrait or landscape, in faint grey through black, blue or green. On A4 that is 38 by 55 whole squares inside a 10 mm printer margin - or switch the margin off and the lines run edge to edge. A heavier line every 5 squares makes a 2.5 cm major grid, every 10 a 5 cm one, which is what turns squared paper into counting-friendly quad paper.
A 5 mm grid is only useful if a square measures 5 mm on the printed sheet, so the file is built to make that easy. The PDF is drawn as vectors in millimetres with the sheet size in its page box; set the print dialog to actual size (100%, never "fit to page") and the squares come out exact. The PNG and JPG are rendered at 300 DPI (200 on A3 and Tabloid) and carry that resolution in the file, so apps that honour it place them at true size too. The Print button opens the browser's print dialog with the paper size already set. If a printer insists on scaling, keep the 10 mm margin on: a page with ink right to its edge is what makes a driver shrink it. Pages puts up to 20 identical sheets into one PDF and one print run; the PNG and JPG are always a single sheet.
The grid size control switches the same sheet to 2 mm, 1 cm, or the inch grids (1/10, 1/4, 1/2 and 1 inch), so one page covers the odd job. Metric drawing generally wants 5 mm or 2 mm; children and board games want 1 cm; US classroom work wants 1/4 inch. The details card on the sheet shows how many whole squares fit on the paper you picked.
The same engine draws the rest of the set - graph paper in any grid, 1 cm, 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch, 1 inch, 10 per inch, dot grid, isometric, polar graph paper, lined paper, music staff paper and blank sudoku grids - every one a vector PDF at true size. They are all listed on the printable paper page.
The grid is drawn on your device and the PDF is written by the page itself; nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored, and the page keeps working offline once it has loaded.
With the default 10 mm margin, 38 across and 55 down. Without a margin the lines run to the paper's edge and 42 by 59 squares fit, the last row being a little short because 297 mm is not a multiple of 5.
Yes. 5 mm, half centimetre and 0.5 cm all describe the same grid; two squares make a centimetre. It is also close to, but not the same as, the American 1/5 inch grid (5.08 mm), which the grid size control also offers as 1/10 inch with a heavier line every 2.
The print dialog scaled the page, usually "fit to printable area" at about 95%. Choose actual size or 100% and print again; the PDF's own page size matches the sheet, so no scaling is needed.
No. The sheet is generated in your browser and the file is written locally. No account, no server, no queue.