Name tracing worksheet maker: free printable practice sheet

Every row has a top line, a dashed middle line at the height of the small letters, and a heavier baseline, with room under it for letters that hang below. The first row is the name in solid letters as the model. The next rows are the name to trace, as a dashed outline, a dotted outline or faded letters, and the rows after that are empty lines to write the name alone. You choose how many of each; if the page cannot hold them all at the line height you chose, it says how many fit and shows that many.

You choose the distance from the top line to the baseline: 0.5 in (13 mm), 0.75 in (19 mm), 1 in (25 mm), 1.25 in (32 mm), 1.5 in (38 mm). The sheet shows exactly that distance, so what you pick is what is printed (print at 100%). A name too wide for the line is made smaller to fit, and the result line says so and gives the new height.

A dot at the top of each letter marks a place to start. It is not the stroke order: the fonts carry no information about which way a letter is drawn, so the sheet cannot teach that. Joined script letters get one dot for the whole joined piece. The dots can be switched off.

Comic Neue Bold and Patrick Hand are plain, single-storey letters with strokes wide enough to trace inside. Comic Neue Bold draws a and g in one storey, the way young children are usually taught to write them. The round display fonts also work, and the script font gives a joined-up sheet.

Every one of the 8 fonts draws A to Z, a to z, digits, the usual punctuation and the accented letters of the Latin-1 block (é, ñ, ü, ç, ø and the rest of À to ÿ). Characters beyond that, such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Greek or Cyrillic letters, symbols and emoji, are drawn only where the font has them. Where it does not, the character is left out of the drawing and the page names it under the preview, so you can pick another font. Nothing is swapped for a different character, except that a missing capital or small letter is drawn as the other case, and the page says so. Names are limited to 40 characters. Bungee has capitals only, so its lower case letters come out as capitals.

The PDF page is exactly the paper size you chose, so print it at 100%, or "actual size", with "fit to page" off. Then the line height printed is the one you chose. The PNG is 300 dpi for the same paper.

No. The font is downloaded to your browser, and the name is typed, drawn and saved on your own device. The site counts that a page was used and that a file was saved (as a file type), never the name, and it has no way to read what you typed.

The fonts are under the SIL Open Font License, which allows using them in your own work, including things you sell, and does not allow selling the font files by themselves. The licence text for each font is linked at the bottom of the page. This is the licence as written, not legal advice; read it if your plans are unusual.

One name at a time, with every font and option, is free. With Pro you can paste a list, one name to a line, up to 50 names, and get one ZIP with a PDF or PNG for each and a short report (names-report.txt) that lists every name, the settings used and any character the font could not draw. Every name uses the font and settings on the page. A name past the 50th is listed in the report, not dropped quietly.

It does not teach stroke order or draw arrows for how to form a letter, it does not check handwriting, and it is not a handwriting course. It makes the practice sheet.