A question was during the Skype Round-Table/Meet Up on Sunday.
Where did Personal Size come from?
The page size as you will all know is 95mm by 171mm, this translates in inches to. 3.75 by 6.75
We have to remember that the size originated in the early 1900's in the USA, so it wouldn't have been measured in metric millimetres back then!
I started to think that may be the original Lefax pages from the 1900's where a slightly different size, but as you will see, this original 1928-1929 calendar page is exactly 95x171 mm in size.
Normally paper sizes tend to be related to each other rather than existing on their own. I have been trying to find what size Personal Size is related too.
Here is a table of all the common US sizes and I've included the Filofax Personal size and ISO A4 and A5 for comparison.
I have studied the sizes and not found any obvious relationship between Filofax Personal Size and the common US paper sizes.
Looking at how Personal Size relates to ISO A4 size shown below in blue, you can fit three Personal Size pages on the one sheet (green, orange and red) This as you can see leaves you with two waste areas at the side and the top, but when printing the thin strip on the right is in fact the bottom of the page so that will be ok for the paper feed on most printers.
So I hope you have had a good weekend.
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