Blank guitar chord charts, A4
A page of empty chord diagrams on A4, with a heavy nut line and space above each box for the chord name.
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What the thick line at the top means
The heavy horizontal line represents the nut, the strip at the top of the fretboard the open strings pass over. Its presence tells the reader the diagram starts at the first fret. When a shape sits further up the neck you replace the nut with a thin line and write the fret number beside the box, and every guitarist reads that convention without being told. A diagram missing the nut is genuinely ambiguous.
Vertical strings, horizontal frets
The standard chord box is drawn as if the guitar were stood upright facing you, so the strings run vertically with the lowest-pitched string on the left, and the frets run horizontally. This is the opposite orientation to tablature, where the strings run horizontally. Both conventions are firmly established and mixing them up on a handwritten sheet is a reliable way to confuse whoever you hand it to.
Write the fingering, not just the dots
A grid of dots tells the reader where to press but not with which finger, and for anything beyond the first few open chords the fingering is the hard part. The convention is a number under each string at the bottom of the box, 1 for index through 4 for little finger, with an x for a muted string and an o for an open one. Leaving that off is what makes handwritten chord sheets useless a month later.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100%, not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.