Welcome to the official documentation of One-Pager Chords, a collection of guitar chords that nicely fit on one page.

Show me an example!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a screenshot of the one-pager PDF—and the associated page on One-Pager Chords—for the song What’s Up? by 4 Non Blondes. You can also find it on the following platforms:

This probably looks very different from the traditional chords you’re used to. Beware, one-pagers are not to everyone’s taste!

What’s so special about these one-pagers?

Like their name indicates, one-pagers fit all the song information on just one page. Their main goal is to maximize the font size of the content while retaining all the essential information about the lyrics and the chords.

While making sense of a one-pager should be pretty intuitive, some more advanced concepts might seem a bit unfamiliar to the untrained eye. Don’t hesitate to check out the Usage section to learn more.

Many strategies have been combined to create these one-pagers, but in summary it all boils down to this: avoid duplicated information and make the most out of the leftover empty space. See this section about creating your own one-pager to learn more.

Perfect for e-readers

The format of a one-pager PDF is US Letter (8.5" x 11") with 0.5" margins on all sides. The main reason behind this choice is that the content has a width to height ratio of 1.333, which is precisely the screen ratio of several popular models of e-book readers. This is ideal to load one-pagers on these e-reader devices.

One-Pager Chords is a community project

The one-pager collection is made by you and for you 🫵

Whether it’s by helping us improve an existing one-pager or by submitting your own, learn how you can contribute to the project 🫶

One-Pager Chords is 100% open-source

Both the one-pager collection and the One-Pager Chords platform itself, as well as all the tooling required to build and run the platform, are fully open-source. Find out more on the homepage of the project.

The One-Pager Chords project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

This documentation is also open-source

Feel free to contribute if you have some suggestions for improvement. Find out more on the homepage of the documentation project.