Free planner SVG files: pages, inserts and stickers

Page size and ring holes

The pages are A5, 148 by 210 mm, the size of a sheet of A4 folded in half. Each file is 100 mm tall, so scale it to 210 mm tall before printing or cutting. The six ring holes are 5.5 mm across and stand in two groups of three: 19 mm from hole to hole within a group and 70 mm between the groups, with their centres 6.5 mm in from the edge. That is the spacing of the common A5 six-ring binder, but binders are not all alike, so cut one page from scrap paper and try it on your rings before you cut a stack. Disc-bound and spiral planners punch their own holes: for those, use the pages and ignore the holes.

To make pages, print the line drawing on 100 to 120 gsm paper and cut the outline and the holes, or let a cutting machine draw the lines with a pen and then cut. The lines are 2.6 mm wide at A5 so that they hold up as shapes; for finer lines, set the drawing as a stroke in your software and use only the outline to cut.

Dividers, pockets and stickers

Cut the divider and the page marker from something stiffer than the pages: 300 gsm card, or thin polypropylene sheet for a marker that survives a year of snapping on and off. The pocket folds from a single piece of 200 to 250 gsm card. The sticker sheets are plain shapes: cut them from printable sticker paper after printing your own colours, or from coloured vinyl as they are. A kiss cut, through the sticker but not its backing, keeps the sheet together.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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