About Foolscap

How a sheet is made

Nothing on this site is a scan or a copy of somebody else’s template. Each calendar is
drawn from the calendar rules themselves – leap years included – by code running in your
browser. Change the paper, turn the sheet, start the week on a Monday, and the drawing
redraws. What you see on screen is produced by the same code that writes the file, so the
preview and the download cannot disagree with one another.

What comes off the press

Six formats, all written here rather than fetched from anywhere. The PDF carries a real
page box – A4 is 210 by 297 millimetres, Letter is 8.5 by 11 inches – so printing at 100%
rather than “fit to page” gives you the size the sheet says it is. There is also a PNG for
dropping into other documents, the vector artwork as an SVG, a spreadsheet with the dates in
cells, a word-processor document with the month as a table, and a calendar file.

What this site deliberately does not have

No holidays are marked. Holiday dates differ by country and by year, and a sheet that
quietly used one country’s list would be wrong for most of the people printing it. No school
terms and no institution’s calendar either: this site does not have your district’s or your
university’s real dates, and drawing something that could be mistaken for them would be
worse than leaving them out. And no templates for closed applications – what is offered here
is what open formats can carry.

Why the years stop where they do

The sheets cover 2026, 2027 and 2028. Years already past are not offered, because a
calendar for a year that has finished is not a calendar. The arithmetic would happily run
further ahead, but three years is as far as most people are planning.

What it costs you

No account, no email address, no sign-up step before a download. Your sheet is drawn and
written on your own machine.