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Getting started

1. Type your text, or pick one of the samples.
2. Choose a font. The preview shows exactly what the PDF will contain.
3. Pick the guide lines. Each colour marks one typographic line: violet for the ascender and descender, blue for the cap height, green for the x-height, red for the baseline.
4. Set the ink. Template prints at full strength so you can slip the sheet under a clean page; Trace and Ghost are light enough to write over.
5. Download the PDF and print it at 100%, with no page scaling.

Sheet types

• Flow wraps your text across the sheet, like a page of writing.
• Repeat tiles a short word or letter across every row — the classic drill sheet.
• Trace puts a model at the top and leaves the rest blank for you.

Using the guide lines

• The baseline is where the letters sit. The x-height line caps the lowercase body.
• Keep ascenders and descenders reaching to their own lines; that is what makes writing look even.
• Slant lines help you hold a consistent pen angle. 55° is the copperplate convention; 90° is upright.

• Ascender
• Cap height
• x-height
• Baseline
• Descender

Decorating a sheet

• Flourishes sit around the text — left, right, above, below — once per block. Set an invitation, print it, then trace it onto an envelope over a lightbox.
• Rows to trace fills every row with the same flourish instead, which is the drill version of the same shape.
• A decorated initial enlarges the first letter across two or more rows and sets the text beside it. It can use a second font: a period face for the letter and a script for the text.
• Both pair well with Outlines to colour in — a 60pt letter you fill with a brush teaches more than a solid one.

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