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True size

What 10 × 15 actually looks like. Calibrate this screen once with a bank card, then every size is drawn at the size it prints — so nothing is a surprise when you open it.

Calibrate this screen once

A screen cannot know how big it really is. Match a bank card to the box and it can — then every size below is drawn at the size it prints.

Every size, in order

SizeIn the hand
10 × 15 cmabout the size of a postcard
13 × 18 cma little bigger than a postcard
15 × 21 cmabout A5 — half a sheet of A4
20 × 30 cmabout a sheet of A4
A4 · 21 × 30 cmabout a sheet of A4
A3 · 30 × 42 cmabout A3 — two A4 sheets side by side
10 × 15 cmabout the size of a postcard
15 × 20 cmabout A5 — half a sheet of A4
20 × 30 cmabout a sheet of A4
30 × 46 cmbigger than A3 — a wall piece, not a hand piece
30 × 60 cmbigger than A3 — a wall piece, not a hand piece
30 × 90 cmbigger than A3 — a wall piece, not a hand piece
40 × 60 cmbigger than A3 — a wall piece, not a hand piece
50 × 80 cmbigger than A3 — a wall piece, not a hand piece
60 × 90 cmbigger than A3 — a wall piece, not a hand piece
60 × 120 cmbigger than A3 — a wall piece, not a hand piece
A4 framedabout a sheet of A4
A3 framedabout A3 — two A4 sheets side by side
40 × 60 cm framedbigger than A3 — a wall piece, not a hand piece
A5 calendarabout A5 — half a sheet of A4

Why a bank card

Browsers assume 96 pixels to the inch, and almost no screen actually does that. The one object whose size is identical everywhere is a payment card: ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1, 85.60 by 53.98 millimetres, the same in Addis as in Berlin. Match it once and the page can convert centimetres to pixels honestly.

What it cannot do

A 60 × 120 canvas will never fit on a phone, so the page says what percentage it is showing instead of shrinking it and pretending. Zooming the page breaks the measurement — set the browser back to 100% and reload. And a screen is not paper: judge the size here, judge the colour on a sample print.

Photo books and mugs

Their exact dimensions are still being confirmed with the shop, so they are not in this tool. We will not draw a true-size rectangle from a number we are not sure of — ask us and we will tell you exactly.