Printable wheel
Print the feelings wheel
Download a one-page feelings wheel PDF sized for A4 paper. It keeps the site's labeled wheel and color structure, then adds short directions you can keep beside it on a wall, a fridge, or a therapy-room table.
- Format
- Page
- One A4 portrait page
- Printing
- Color recommended
What is on the page
The sheet centers the complete wheel: 121 labeled segments arranged as 7 core choices, 39 middle-ring choices and 75 outer labels. Beneath it, two compact instruction blocks explain how to narrow a choice and what to try when no exact word fits. The footer carries the sources: Ekman for six of the seven cores, Willcox for the three-ring method.
The first instruction block starts at the center, moves through the nearest middle-ring choice, then compares the two outer words. The second makes room for a broad word, two feelings at once, or a note about what happened just before.
How to print the colors clearly
Print in color and turn on background graphics if your print dialog offers that option. The wheel uses 7 hues to do real work: they separate the wheel into navigable branches. A grayscale copy can preserve the words, but it removes that color structure and makes the path from the center to the outer ring harder to follow.
- Choose A4 paper, portrait orientation, and actual size or 100% scale.
- Check the preview before printing. If an edge is clipped, use your printer's fit-to-page option.
- Ordinary paper works for a wall or fridge. Heavier paper holds up better when the wheel will be passed around a table.
What to do once it is printed
Put the sheet where the feeling needs to be named, not where it looks tidiest. At a check-in, begin near the center and move outward until the next choice stops feeling more accurate. Circle or point to the word, note what happened just before, and keep a second word if two fit.
A wall or fridge copy can turn a vague pause into a quick pointer. At a shared table, rotate the sheet so everyone can read it and let the person choosing set the pace. The goal is a word they believe, not the most specific label available.
Use the wheel on screen instead
The printed sheet works best as a shared, always-visible reference. If you would rather tap through the rings, use the on-screen feelings wheel; each label opens its own plain-language page. The check-in feature follows the same narrowing motion, while the feelings wheel glossary explains why the rings move from broad words to precise ones.
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