Accessibility
Large print, on every page of the book.
Large print here is a setting, not a separate product. Tick one box in the builder and the whole book is set larger — any template, either family, the same page count and the same price. There is no “large-print edition” to choose between and no shorter list of layouts to pick from.
What the setting changes
- ■ Type size. 52 sizes go up, across every one of the 18 page layouts you can put in a book — the page title, the date on a weekly spread and on a one-page week, every calendar square, the hour labels on a day sheet, the questions in a keepsake, the column headings on a log. Every size the option touches goes up; none of them comes down.
- ▲ Writing lines. The ruled lines are spaced further apart wherever you write — weekly spreads and one-page weeks, the notes column beside a month, day sheets, lined and dot-grid pages, and under a keepsake's questions — so the handwriting has somewhere to go instead of being squeezed between rules meant for smaller letters.
- ● Darker labels. The weekday and day-of-week labels are set in a darker ink. That matters most in a black-and-white interior, where a pale grey label is the first thing to disappear.
- ◆ Both kinds of book. A keepsake gets it too, and not just on the headings: the questions, the ruled answer lines, the chapter openers and the section labels all move with it. That is the reader with glasses on, filling in a book at the kitchen table.
- ✕ And what it leaves alone. 2 pieces of type do not move, and here is why: a title bar in a custom week — it already sizes itself to the block you drew, and forcing it bigger cuts the end off a long title instead of wrapping it; a chapter title — it is already 30 pt, bigger than anything else in either book.
How large is large print here?
In points, so you can judge it rather than take our word for it. These are read straight out of the stylesheet the printer uses, so this table is the book.
| What you are reading | Ordinary | Large print |
|---|---|---|
| The title at the top of a page | 20 pt | 24 pt |
| The date on a two-page weekly spread | 13 pt | 18 pt |
| The date on a one-page week | 15 pt | 20 pt |
| The line a typed answer is printed on | 11 pt | 13.5 pt |
| The date in a calendar square | 9 pt | 12 pt |
| A fill-in question | 8.5 pt | 11 pt |
| An hour label on a day sheet | 7.5 pt | 9.5 pt |
| The weekday strip above a month grid | 8 pt | 9.5 pt |
| The column headings on a log page | 7.5 pt | 9 pt |
| A holiday or your own event, inside a calendar square | 6 pt | 7.5 pt |
| A date in a mini month | 5.6 pt | 7.5 pt |
| A holiday or event beside a day on a one-page week | 6 pt | 7 pt |
And what it is not
This is not a 16–18 pt face set throughout, which is what a dedicated large-print edition of a novel means by the phrase. Our largest type is 24 pt (the title at the top of a page) and our smallest is 7 pt (a holiday or event beside a day on a one-page week). A planner is a grid before it is a page: an A5 column is about 19 mm wide, and type past a certain size stops being a calendar and starts being a list. If you read best above 24 pt, we would rather you knew that here than found it out from a parcel.
Two things help. The first is free, and it is the one to do before anything else: print a page at home. Open any book in the builder and press “Preview as book” — that is the finished interior, laid out in millimetres, so an A5 page is 148 × 210 mm on the paper. Print that page from your browser at 100% scale — not “fit to page”, which shrinks it — and you are holding this type at this size, under the light you would actually use it in. It carries a watermark, it needs no account and no order, and it costs nothing.
The second is the 8.5 × 11 in trim, which gives every one of these sizes a much wider column to sit in — and that one is not free. It is a bigger sheet of paper and our printer charges more for it: about $6 on a 128-page planner, less on a shorter book. The builder reprices as you change the size, so the figure you see there is your own book's rather than this example's.
It costs you rows, not pages
Taller lines mean fewer of them fit on a sheet. A log page is one page whatever its rows do, so rather than spilling the surplus onto a second page we lower the row count to what the paper can hold at a writable height. Turning large print on therefore never changes your page count, and never changes your price — which is the whole point of an accessibility option you can switch on after you have already seen what the book costs.
| Size | Rows per log page | In large print |
|---|---|---|
| A5 · 5.8 × 8.3 in (148 × 210 mm) | 22 | 16 |
| 6 × 9 in | 24 | 18 |
| 5.5 × 8.5 in | 22 | 16 |
| 8.5 × 11 in | 31 | 23 |
| 8.5 × 8.5 in (square) | 22 | 16 |
The builder's row control moves with the setting, so the number it offers you is the number that prints — a log page asks for 22 rows unless you say otherwise, and the bigger sheets keep more of them. Nothing else in the book changes length: month grids, weekly spreads, notes and keepsake chapters are the same count of pages either way.
Templates that start with it on
These are built large-print from the first page, so there is nothing to switch. Every other template can have it as well — it is a checkbox in the builder, not a different book.
The same switch on a keepsake book
The fill-in books are where this matters most. A grandparent reading the questions aloud, or someone writing an answer with reading glasses on, is the ordinary case rather than the exception — so large print on a keepsake enlarges the questions themselves and the lines you answer them on, not only the heading at the top of the page.
See the keepsake books →See it before you buy it
The builder previews the real printed page, at the real size, with the setting on. Press “Preview as book”, print one page from your browser at 100%, and hold the actual thing under the light you would actually use it in — before you order, for nothing.
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