Handwriting Worksheet Generator (Tracing Worksheets)

Tracing letters on proper guide lines is how children, and adults learning a new script, build steady handwriting. This generator turns any letters, words or sentences into a printable worksheet. Latin text gets four-line ruling with a dashed midline for the x-height. Korean, Chinese and Japanese get square 칸 boxes with cross guides. Each line can be traced in light grey or as dotted outlines, or shown once as a model above empty rows. You get a PDF to print and a preview of the first page.

How to use this tool

1. Type each letter group, word or sentence on its own line.
2. Choose the practice style, the guide lines (or leave Automatic) and the letter height.
3. Set how many practice rows and empty rows follow each line, the letter style and the paper size.
4. Press Calculate, check the preview and print the PDF at 100%.

Formula

Row height (four-line) = letter height × 1.5 for ascenders and descenders + 0.55 × letter height of spacing · Box row = letter height × 1.35

The font size is chosen so a capital H is exactly the letter height you set, measured with the font on your device. The dashed midline sits at that font's x-height. In boxes, each character is centred in its own square at 78% of the box size. Short items are repeated across the row when "Repeat short items" is on, and long sentences wrap onto further rows. Pages are drawn at 200 dpi and placed in an A4 or Letter PDF.

Example

With the default text (Aa Bb Cc, apple, I can write. and 가나다라), 10 mm letters, two practice rows and one empty row per line, each Latin line takes three ruled rows of about 20.5 mm. The Hangul line takes three rows of 13.5 mm boxes, 18 boxes across an A4 page. The first copy in every row is solid black, so the child sees the model before tracing.