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Cake day: January 15th, 2024

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  • Scalability. You can design something in A3/A4 and if you want the page in a smaller, common format, you can print it as A4/A5. This is especially handy for designing flyers, or scaling bigger stuff (like schematics, which are usually drawn on A1/A2) down to print it on household printers.

    It’s also quite convenient that pretty much anyone has a common understading of what A3/A4/A5/A6 is, when talking about areas in real life.

    Also, if you need A5 put only have A4 paper, you can cut it or even split it without scissors. That usually even gets better results, because splitting a piece of paper in two by folding is easier to do precisely that to do it whith scissors.

    Making a page longer just to “fit more stuff on it” isnwt really such a great boon, since you always need a cut-off somewhere.

    A4 can be folded into thirds as well and smaller envelopes are perfect for A6.