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Stop designing by accident. 📐
Most people see a piece of paper. I see the Lichtenberg Ratio.In a world of design waste, the ISO 216 standard is the ultimate masterclass in functional logic and perfect scaling.
Which do you prefer: the pure logic of A4 or the chaos of US Letter? Let’s talk in the comments. 👇
3TA Design. We build on the invisible.#3TADesign #DesignFunFacts #GraphicDesign #A4Paper #ISO216 #MathematicsInDesign
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Stop designing by accident. 📐
Most people see a piece of paper. I see the Lichtenberg Ratio.In a world of design waste, the ISO 216 standard is the ultimate masterclass in functional logic and perfect scaling.
Which do you prefer: the pure logic of A4 or the chaos of US Letter? Let’s talk in the comments. 👇
3TA Design. We build on the invisible.#3TADesign #DesignFunFacts #GraphicDesign #A4Paper #ISO216 #MathematicsInDesign
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But wait, why a 1m² area as standard? Why not a 1m width: 1000×1414 mm?
Sounds nice: same 1:√2 shape as in "A", only slightly larger.
Let's call that standard "B" then, which makes a B4 250×353 mm, slightly larger than an A4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216
#funfacts #papersize #iso216 #a4 #metric #math
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Papersize, how often do you really think about that? Why does that ubiquitous A4 paper have that specific name and size anyway? 210×297 mm seems pretty random.
Well, it isn't. Far from it.
America uses its own collection of random paper sizes, but the rest of us use the very clever and elegant ISO 216 standard.
It starts with a bit of math.
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