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HOW MUCH COFFEE TO WATER

six methods · weight, grind, time

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

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Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
drinks · everyone · memo · kitchen

Everything by weight, not volume: a spoon of ground coffee weighs 4 to 7 g depending on the grind.

THE GRIND CONTROLS TASTE, NOT STRENGTH

Strength is set by the ratio: how many grams of coffee to how many grams of water. Change it and the drink gets stronger or weaker; nothing else has happened.

The grind controls something else — how fast the water pulls compounds out of the bean. Finer pulls more and sooner, and at the same ratio the drink turns bitter; coarser under-pulls, and it turns sour.

So "make it stronger" and "make it taste better" are two different dials, and confusing them means turning the wrong one.

On the sheet

  • Everything by weight, not volume: a spoon of ground coffee weighs 4 to 7 g depending on the grind.
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 3 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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