Bigger paper, bigger dates
Large Print Calendar
The same month sheet, sized up: choose A3 at 297 by 420 millimetres and clear the ruled lines, and the dates come off as large as the grid will allow, in PDF, PNG or SVG.
The rest of the run
The sheets
Set differently
- Large print
- Ruled lines
- Landscape
- Largest paper here
- A3, 297 × 420 mm
- Date size
- A fixed fraction of the week-row height
- Rows
- Five or six, depending on the month and the week start
- Ruled lines
- Set to none to leave the cell clear
Where the size actually comes from
Nothing on this bench has a large-print mode. Every measurement is worked out from the paper: the margin first, then the heading, then the height of a week row, and the dates last of all at a fixed fraction of that row. Change the paper and the whole sheet moves with it.
A3 is 297 × 420 mm against A4’s 210 × 297 — the same shape, twice the area — so a date printed on A3 comes out around two-fifths taller than the same date on A4. A5 shrinks it by about the same proportion in the other direction.
Two smaller choices count as well. A month that fits into five rows of weeks sets larger dates than one needing six, because the same height is shared between fewer rows; May and August are the two months of 2026 that need six, and only when the week begins on Sunday — move the start to Monday and the pair is not the same. And turning the paper to landscape works against you here: the columns get wider but the rows get shorter, and the dates follow the rows, so portrait is the larger setting.
The ruled lines do not change the size of the dates, but they occupy the space under them. Set them to none and the cell is clear. This page opens the bench on A3 with two ruled lines to a cell, which is the largest the dates get without losing the writing space entirely. Neither is fixed: the paper and the line count are both settings, and A4 with no lines gives larger dates again on smaller paper.
Printing it
Print at 100%. Sending an A3 sheet to a printer loaded with A4 hands the whole point back to the driver, which will scale it down to fit; where A3 is not available, A4 portrait with the lines cleared is the next best setting. The PDF carries its page box, so a print shop can take the size from the file rather than from a description of it.