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Calendar and Planner Templates
16 printable calendar and planner pages at 8.5 × 11, 300 DPI — monthly grids, weekly spreads, daily pages and trackers. Undated, so a page you print in March is the same page you print next January, and laid out to work two ways: printed loose on a home printer, or bound as a book.
| Trim sizes | 11 × 17 in · 8.5 × 11 in · 11 × 8.5 in · 7 × 5 in |
|---|---|
| Bleed | 0.125 in |
| Resolution target | 300 DPI |
| Templates | 16 |
| Pages | 16 |
Calendar and planner templates (16)
Black and Brass Undated 8.5 × 11 Monthly Wall Calendar8.5 × 11 inA wall calendar rather than a planner sheet: the month set huge across the top third and a compact reversed grid under it. Undated, and the whole sheet is one ink field so it prints as a single flood.
Black and Brass Undated 8.5 × 11 Year at a Glance8.5 × 11 inTwelve month blocks on one sheet, three across and four down. Undated: the month labels and the year are editable text, and each block carries a five-row day grid.
Black and White Undated 8.5 × 11 Time Block Planner8.5 × 11 inA single undated day split into two half-hour columns, so a sixteen-hour day fits on one sheet without the rows going under a quarter inch. Every hour label is editable.
Blush and Oat Undated 8.5 × 11 Monthly Goals Page8.5 × 11 inThe sheet that goes in front of a month: three goals with room to say why, a small win column, and a review block at the foot for the end of it.
Clay and Bone Undated 8.5 × 11 Weekly Planner8.5 × 11 inUndated week on one page, seven day bands down the sheet with a priorities rail beside them. The day names are editable, so a week can start on any day.
Coral and Butter Undated 7 × 5 Desk Calendar7 × 5 inA month on a 7 x 5 card for a desk or a tent stand. Small enough to print six-up on a Letter sheet and cut, with the month, the year and every numeral editable.
Coral and Navy Undated 8.5 × 11 Chore Chart8.5 × 11 inEight chores across seven days with a name band at the top, set in a rounder face than the rest of the set because it is the one sheet that goes on a refrigerator door.
Coral and Navy Undated 8.5 × 11 Weekly Planner8.5 × 11 inSeven filled day bands alternating between the two accents, with the writing area knocked out of each. Undated, and the day names are editable so the week can start anywhere.
Ochre and Ink Undated 8.5 × 11 Monthly Bill Tracker8.5 × 11 inSixteen bills with a due column, an amount column and a paid box, over a total band. Undated, and the column heads are editable so it works for a household or a small business.
Plum and Amber Undated 8.5 × 11 Habit Tracker8.5 × 11 inTwelve habits across thirty-one numbered columns, undated. The column heads are editable text so it works as a month, a fortnight or a thirty-day challenge.
Plum and Amber Undated 8.5 × 11 Monthly Planner8.5 × 11 inThe month grid in the left two thirds with a full-height colored rail beside it for the three things the month is actually for. Undated throughout.
Sage and Bone Undated 8.5 × 11 Weekly Meal Planner8.5 × 11 inSeven days by three meals, with a shopping list column that runs the full height of the sheet. Undated, so it prints once and works every week.
Sky and Blush Undated 11 × 17 Year Wall Planner11 × 17 inA whole year on one oversized sheet, 11 x 17 — twelve month columns with every day numbered down the side. The month names and the year are editable, so it never expires.
Slate and Cream Undated 8.5 × 11 Daily Planner8.5 × 11 inOne undated day per sheet: an hourly column from 6 to 9, a top-three block, and a wide notes field. The hours are editable text, so an early shift or a late one both work.
Teal and Gold Undated 8.5 × 11 Monthly Calendar8.5 × 11 inUndated month on one page, 8.5 x 11. Seven columns at exactly 1.00 in across a 7.00 in live width, with 0.75 in clear on both edges so the sheet is safe punched on either side. The month, the year and every date numeral are editable text.
Violet and Mint Undated 11 × 8.5 Wall Calendar11 × 8.5 inUndated month for the wall, landscape at 11 x 8.5 — the shape a month is actually read in, and the one shape this section did not have. The grid is a single repeat block: change the rows, the gap or the cell border once and all forty-two cells follow.Undated, and why that is the better product
Almost every calendar template on the internet has a year in it, and a year is an expiry date. A 2026 calendar is worthless in 2027, and a planner you liked is a planner you have to go and find again every December.
These are undated. The month name and the day numbers are editable text elements, not baked into the design, so one file serves any month of any year — you set the numbers once and print. A blank grid is also genuinely what a lot of people want: a month planner for a project, a term, a sprint, a trip, or a wall in a workshop where the actual dates matter less than the shape of the month does.
The trade is honest: an undated grid is thirty seconds of typing that a dated one saves you. If you want a specific month filled in, fill it in once and save the file — it takes less time than searching for the right year again next December, and the file is yours to keep.
What this is not: it is a printable, not a spreadsheet
Worth saying plainly, because it is the most common mismatch in this category.
Crevano produces a printable page — a PDF and image files. It does not produce a Word document, an Excel sheet, a Google Sheet or a Google Doc, and the PDF it writes holds each page as an image rather than as live text, so it is not a file you type into after the fact either.
| What you want | Where to get it |
|---|---|
| A page you design, print, and write on by hand | Here |
| A calendar you type into on a computer and keep updating | A spreadsheet or a word processor |
| A digital planner you annotate on a tablet | These export as images, which most note apps import — but a purpose-built digital planner will be better |
If the plan is to keep the calendar on a screen and edit entries in it, this is the wrong tool and that is not a close call. If the plan is to put it on a wall, a fridge, a clipboard or in a binder and write on it, this is exactly the right one.
Printed loose, or bound as a book — decide first
The decision changes the margins, and changing it later means relaying every page.
Loose pages, printed at home and clipped, filed or stuck on a wall, want even margins — half an inch all round, with nothing eating the inside edge.
A bound book — spiral, disc, comb, or a printed planner — needs the binding edge much wider, because part of it is punched away or curled into a spine. 0.75 inch on the binding edge is a working number, and for a punched binding you need a completely clear half inch: no grid line, no rule, no date, nothing the punch can go through.
Double-sided printing swaps the binding edge from page to page. If the planner prints double-sided, the wide margin is on the left for one page and the right for the next. Getting this wrong is the most common reason a home-bound planner has half its dates punched out.
Grid lines are for writing on, not for looking at
A calendar's grid is functional, and the design instinct works against it in two specific ways.
Rules should be light. A grid in strong black competes with the handwriting that is the actual content, and a month with entries in it looks cluttered before it is full. A gray rule at 20–30% does the same job and disappears under ink.
Cells need real height. A monthly grid on 8.5 × 11 gives about 1.1 to 1.3 inches per row after the header. That holds two short entries in adult handwriting and not four — which is fine, because a monthly grid is a map rather than a diary. If people need to write more, they need a weekly spread, and no amount of tightening the monthly grid will fix it.
The related rule: the date numeral goes in a corner, small. A large centered date number eats the cell it is labeling.
Weeks start where your reader's week starts
A small thing that generates real annoyance. Sunday-first is the North American convention; Monday-first is the ISO standard and the convention across most of Europe and much of the rest of the world. Neither is correct in general and both are correct locally.
Pick one deliberately, then be consistent across every page in the set. A monthly grid starting Sunday next to a weekly spread starting Monday is genuinely disorienting to use, and it is the kind of error that survives proofreading because each page is right on its own.
If you are adding public holidays, they are national too — a template cannot know them, and a calendar carrying the wrong country's holidays is worse than one carrying none. Type in the ones you actually observe.
Printing a planner at home
- Print one week or one month as a test before printing a year. Twelve months of a layout with a problem in it is an expensive way to find the problem.
- Print at actual size, not fit-to-page, or the grid stops matching a punch and a disc binding.
- Duplex carefully. Long-edge binding is what you want for a book; short-edge flips alternate pages upside down. Test with four sheets.
- Paper: 28 to 32 lb at minimum. Planner paper gets written on with whatever is to hand, and ordinary 20 lb copy paper shows a gel pen or a marker from the other side, which makes the reverse page unusable.
Questions
What size is a printable calendar?
8.5 × 11 is the standard US calendar and planner page and the one every home printer takes. Half-size (5.5 × 8.5) is common for carried planners and prints two to a letter sheet with one cut. Wall calendars are often 11 × 17, which needs tabloid paper or a print shop.
Are these calendars dated or blank?
Undated — the month name and the day numbers are editable text, so one file works for any month of any year. Fill in a month once and save the file, and you never have to go looking for the right year again.
Can I add the year and the dates myself?
Yes, and that is how they are meant to be used. The month, the year and every day number are separate text elements you retype. It takes about thirty seconds for a month.
Can I edit these in Word or Excel?
No. Crevano makes a printable page, not a document you type into — the PDF holds each page as an image rather than as live text. If you want a calendar you keep updating on a computer, use a spreadsheet. If you want one to print and write on by hand, use these.
What margins does a bound planner need?
Half an inch all round for loose pages. Three quarters of an inch on the binding edge if it is punched or bound, with that strip completely clear of grid lines and dates. On double-sided pages the wide margin swaps sides.
Should the week start on Sunday or Monday?
Sunday in North America, Monday in most of the rest of the world and under the ISO standard. Choose one and use it on every page in the set — mixing them across a monthly grid and a weekly spread is what makes a planner confusing to use.
How much room does a calendar cell need?
About 1.1 to 1.3 inches of height on an 8.5 × 11 monthly grid, which holds two short handwritten entries. If more is needed, the answer is a weekly spread rather than a tighter month.
What paper should I print a planner on?
28 to 32 lb at least. Ordinary 20 lb copy paper shows gel pen and marker through to the other side, which wastes half the pages in a double-sided planner. Print at actual size, or the punch holes will not line up with the layout.
Can I sell a planner I make from these?
Yes. Anything you make is yours to publish and sell, including as a digital printable, a listing, or a bound product, on the free plan, with no royalty, no credit and no expiry.