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HexPaper Pro is a mapping font with 62 different glyphs for composing and printing sheets of specialized graph paper (especially hex paper, but also isometric and others), and for applying grids to existing maps. Because it's a font, the grids are immediately available in all your graphics, layout, and word-processing programs, and you can scale and combine the grids as you please, for any medium in any size. It's a graphic tool for Game Masters, game designers, and cartographers.

Along with the font, you get the 181-page Sheet Book (60 pre-composed graph sheets in black, cyan, and dark-cyan versions), and the 5 page HexPaper Guide, which is both the font documentation and a visual catalogue of its many styles. The best way to get a feel for HexPaper Pro is to download and print the Guide (see the Publisher Preview link, above).

This is version 3.0 of the classic HexPaper font, a Cumberland Games staple since 1999. This latest version comes with a commercial-use license at no extra charge; see the Guide for details! The font is provided in TrueType, OpenType, and Adobe Type 1 formats, so it works with any modern desktop Operating System.

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John R May 23, 2022 12:10 am UTC
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Is there any way to save a single page from the 'sheet book' as a separate file (so I can draw on it in Procreate or another piece of software)? It seems I can't export a single page due to the PDF being locked. I'd like to just be able to take a single page and import it into photoshop/procreate so I can draw on it digitally. Thank you!
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S. John R May 23, 2022 12:45 am UTC
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Ooh thank you for pointing this out! The sample sheets shouldn't be locked at all. I'll upload a corrected file within the next 24 hours (I'm away from my computer today due to travel).
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S. John R May 23, 2022 6:41 pm UTC
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The updated file should now be available to everyone =)
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Steve N September 29, 2021 5:23 pm UTC
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Using "a" for some 1 inch hex grids. Want to get a similar look with a square grid, but the "6" option has overly thick lines at 1 inch. Any options for getting thinner lines with the squares?
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S. John R September 30, 2021 6:12 am UTC
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While I love a hexgrid above all, squares have the special advantage of being griddable in seconds in basically any graphics program (using Patterns in Photoshop, Swatches in Illustrator, etc) so it's a snap to just lay down a square grid of whatever weight you need. The squares in HexPaper Pro are mainly there as a convenience for when you're working outside graphics software (in a word processor, for example) or for when you need standard quads and quints. If there's ever sufficient demand, though, I might do a font devoted to squares.

That said, you CAN thin the line-weight for the squares in the font, but how will depend on what software you're working in, and whether you're working with raster or vector output. For example, in Illustrator you can merge the grid and then give it a paper/background-color outline stroke, or in Photoshop you could rasterize the grid and apply a select-contract-delete or even use the Minimize/Maximize filter to adjust weight. Each application has its own ways that...See more
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Steve N October 01, 2021 2:04 am UTC
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Thanks for the reply! I was using Word. Square graph paper is easy as a table in Word, but this time, I wanted more precision with the agreement between horizontal and vertical, which is good with the fonts, whereas the tables I guess aren't made for that. I'll look into some sort of graphics program.
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Guy C December 04, 2020 1:29 am UTC
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I am having persistent issues with some of the hex-rows having a slight space between them when I save the document.
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S. John R December 04, 2020 2:35 am UTC
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Hi! These "phantom gaps" are explained on page 1 of the guide. They vanish during printout or when you rasterize. Depending on the software you're using, there are also tricks to make them vanish when screen-viewing the font as a font. Drop me a line at sjohn@cumberlandgames.com if you need additional help with it.
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Francisco B December 15, 2018 12:23 pm UTC
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Can you make a DIN-A4 version?
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Christoph S September 04, 2017 9:58 pm UTC
Can you make a hex map with space between the hexes?
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S. John R September 04, 2017 11:44 pm UTC
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Sure can! Just layer a lightweight hex over a heavier hex in a darker color. For example, I made the following graphic: https://goo.gl/Uj9uiR by layering the lowercase d (in white) over the lowercase e (in black). By choosing different hex-weights, you can adjust the line-weight and gap-weight in several combinations. In a vector program like Illustrator (or using the vector tools in InDesign), you could then subtract the upper from the lower to render the gaps transparent. In a raster program like Photoshop (or Gimp, etc), you can adjust the blending mode, and so on. Lots of possibilities to have fun with =)
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Christoph S September 01, 2017 3:14 pm UTC
Im seeing a PDF error on the Full size preview and a blank quick preview
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S. John R September 01, 2017 8:56 pm UTC
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Yeah =( It's an issue with the store they'll hopefully resolve soon; there doesn't seem to be anything publishers can do beyond what I already have (there's an alternate preview link at the top of the description).
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S. John R September 05, 2017 8:36 pm UTC
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Previews are now working properly, I think =)
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