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Print Design

PaperSizes: The international paper size reference

by Chuck Green at ideabook.com

If you’ve designed anything in print outside your country’s border, you’re painfully aware of how paper sizes differ around the world. Last year, UK Designer Rob Lafratta and developer Richard Franklin created PaperSizes—an elegant mobile app and website for accessing 250 international paper sizes in mm and inches.

Thank you gentlemen.

PaperSizes…

The PaperSizes Twitter feed…

An exhaustive article on paper size from Wikipedia…

David Berman explains where the standard came from…

Posted in JUNE 2018 / Chuck Green is the principal of Logic Arts, a design and marketing firm, a contributor to numerous magazines and websites, and the author of books published by Random House, Peachpit Press, and Rockport Publishers. Contact.

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  1. Bogdan Iorga >

    November 6, 2018 at 3:41 am

    Hello again Chuck,
    Recently I bought two handbooks that have been on my shopping list for some time now. In the process I discovered that they have on their website a section with resources and in that section there is a very handy paper size chart that I kindly recommend.

    Paper size chart,
    http://resources.printhandbook.com/pages/paper-size-chart.php

    If you are curious about the books, you can take a glance here, https://www.printhandbook.com/

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    • Chuck Green >

      November 6, 2018 at 9:07 am

      Nice addition, thank you.

      The books look like fun. I’m rather surprised that I don’t find a comprehensive, current book on printing and print production. Something like International Paper’s long defunct, PocketPal: “the authoritative introduction to the graphic arts.” It’s as if print has gone away when, in reality, it is still a massive industry.

      For example: http://www.printisbig.com/

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