Printable Periodic Tables
Seven free vector PDFs — colour, mono, with charges, with configurations, and blank practice sheets.
Seven printable versions, all free, all generated the moment you click from the same data this site renders — so there is no stale PDF on a server slowly going out of date. Each is vector, not an image, which means it prints just as crisply at poster size as it does on A4.
Atomic weights are the IUPAC values including the 2024 revisions. No sign-up, no watermark, no email address.
Colour periodic table
The standard classroom table: atomic number, symbol, name and atomic mass, colour-coded by element category.
Black and white
The same table without colour — prints cleanly on a mono laser printer and photocopies without turning grey.
With atomic mass only
Symbol and atomic mass, names dropped, so the numbers are as large as possible. Useful next to a molar-mass problem set.
With charges
Each element labelled with the ion it commonly forms — the version you want when learning to write formulae.
With electron configuration
Noble-gas shorthand configuration in every tile. Dense, but it puts the whole of orbital filling on one page.
Blank — symbols only
Atomic number and symbol, nothing else. For students to fill in names, masses or categories.
Blank — numbers only
Just the atomic numbers in the right shape. The hardest practice sheet, and the best test of whether you know the table.
Printing tips
- Choose landscape and set scaling to “fit to page”. The PDFs are already A4 landscape, so most printers need nothing else.
- For a wall poster, take the PDF to a print shop and ask for A1 or A0. Vector artwork will not pixelate at that size.
- Photocopying? Use the black and white version. Colour tiles photocopy into indistinguishable greys, which defeats the point of the colour coding.
- For revision, print the blank symbols-only sheet and fill in names and masses from memory, then check against the interactive table.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Are these printable periodic tables free to use?
Yes — free to download, print, photocopy and hand out in class. They are generated from public-domain property data from PubChem and IUPAC atomic weights, so there are no licence restrictions to pass on.
What size do these print at?
The PDFs are A4 landscape by default, which also prints cleanly on US Letter. Because they are vector rather than images, they scale to any size without going blurry — printing one at A0 for a wall poster works exactly as well as printing it at A4.
Which printable version should I use?
For general classroom use, the colour table with names and masses. For photocopying, the black and white one, which stays legible where colour turns to grey mush. For learning, the blank versions: symbols-only to practise names, or numbers-only if you want the hardest test.
Is the data up to date?
The PDF is generated at the moment you click, from the same dataset this site renders, using IUPAC standard atomic weights including the 2024 revisions to gadolinium, lutetium and zirconium. There is no stale file sitting on a server to go out of date.