I use this to trace my sewing patterns because I don't like to cut them, and because I make a lot of adjustments, so I need to create many new versions. I'm used to plain tracing paper, but the yellow is so slight that I hardly notice it. It's good quality paper that doesn't allow ink to bleed through, but it's easy to see the pattern lines through the paper. The 2 inches is a typo, btw. As others have said, this paper is 24" wide. I wish they made a 48" wide version. Perhaps I should look for a product that's 4" wide!