Paper sizes world map
1 min readJun 1, 2019
8.5×11 has been around for more than a century. 8.27×11.69 was made an international standard in the 1970s. Most of Europe had already adopted it since the 20s.
In North America, continued to use the 8.5×11 standard, because the 70s paper manufacturing in NA was already a huge industry and the prevalence of the electric typewriter and it would be unreasonable to force that industry into changing the standard size paper for an arbitrary reason.
