World map of paper sizes
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@infobeautiful This only tells part of the story. The metric paper sizes also follow a logic in relation to other sizes. A3 makes two A4s, which makes two A5s, etc.
@infobeautiful huh? Why are there #countries that are not the #US nor #Canada that have the flipping #usletter instead of the almighty #A4?
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16 A4 pages equals 1 square metre and should weigh 80 grams for 80gsm paper
@infobeautiful @hi_cial My God. Americans have to be size queens about everything.
@infobeautiful What is the size of paper we should have? Look at the U.S. Always trying to do things different.
You should be different, but you shouldn't need to compete against the rest of the world.
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And the silly is:
A4 is described in ISO 216
An International Standard
Signed also by US.
But hey, what about the International System of Units (SI)?
@infobeautiful Did India switch? When I was there 30 years ago, it was all "Letter".
Googling seems to confirm that effectively, it's all A4. Perhaps I only found the wrong copy shops?
@infobeautiful Dammit. I hate being next door to that backwards nation.
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The c/a/n/a/d/a project is again on the wrong side of history
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@infobeautiful Well, when you collect old books or work with papers as an artist, you will find that this map is purely colonial thinking. 😉
You can print a book in folio or quarto format. Art papers are measured differently in Japan, Great Britain or France. Such a world map would be much more colourful! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
You can print a book in folio or quarto format. Art papers are measured differently in Japan, Great Britain or France. Such a world map would be much more colourful! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
@infobeautiful Canada should adopt A4, EBU standards (DVB-T2, DVB-S and DVB-C), DAB, Schuko 220V 50Hz…
@infobeautiful let's just say: it's a bad idea to compete on paper sizes with German government agencies. OG market share domination
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I grew up in Europe, with A4 and its relatives.
I grew up in Europe, with A4 and its relatives.
I love the logic of the A-series: Each format in this series is half the size of its „parent“, all of the with the same aspect ratio of 1 to squareroot of 2 (ca. 1,41). The largest is A0 with an area of 1 square meter.
If you cut it in half, you have two pages A1, and so forth.
The Wikipedia page on paper sizes has more, including a somewhat differentiated version of the map: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
@infobeautiful How often do layout designers have to switch to “the other” standard paper format due to a lack of information? This has happened often enough in my career. It would be much easier with one system. But this won’t happen soon.
@infobeautiful I imagine one can thank Pinochet and Kissinger for Chile using US Letter?
@infobeautiful what kind of projection is that?
@infobeautiful pretty sure I even used foolscap in the Philippines 20 years ago
@infobeautiful Bolivia's standard body indeed adopted A4, but I NEVER saw one A4 sheet here. We use Letter and Office.
@infobeautiful Oh, this time it is not only the USA that is wrong.
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