How do measurements work

Length is always the longest side of the box that has a flap. The next dimension is width. The width side also has a flap, but is always the side shorter than the length. Measure the height of the package. Height is the only dimension without a flap. Measure the standing side of the box from top to bottom.

The height measurement does not include flaps. John April 9, pm. In labelli g rooms architecturally, is is horizontal dimension x vertical dimension. SignGuy June 18, pm. I have worked in the sign world for a number of years with several different companies across the united states.

Friends in the print industry always use Width x Height. For some reason the sign business is just different. Jenny July 1, am. For me, I made the mistake of assuming height by width because of the reading left to right. I can understand the confusion, and I have seen it both ways. Ayfi Hessian August 3, pm. Jonny S August 7, pm.

Great argument… but the answer is clear. I have been a professional designer for 20 years, and all artwork request technical specification sheets from magazines, newspapers, flyers, posters even video work is Width x Height. My TV is …. However most tech sheets do usually dictate landscape or portrait to be on the safe side.

Randy August 19, pm. It always has been width x height and always will be. Mitch Powell October 24, am. This has been extraordinarily confusing. Thank you all; especially those of you who threw the biggest wrenches into the works. So… I tend to agree with the majority here, that it should be width, then height. If they have a wall where the work can only be 12 inches wide, then when they specify 12 for the width, the height will automatically adjust to its proper aspect ratio.

Paul M January 8, am. The print industry has been around for a few centuries and has, up until computers taking over, been height x width. When computers first came into the print industry they are set as a standard to w x h it cost a lot of people a lot of money re-creating and re-printing materials because of the confusion.

In my opinion the sooner print industry accepts defeat the better, it does my head in as a graphic designer. Stevie February 20, am. Thing is my gripe is, why be lazy and leave out a simple H, W, or L, as the application dictates. Even then, there is NO fraking correct answer, and one always risks a 90 degree miss-orientation, or something like that.

How fraking hard is it to put an h, w, t, in the fraking description???? Very disappointed in everone who thinks that I should share all their orientation purrspective. Rant over. David March 17, pm.

Graphics standards are width x height, fine art standards are height x width… see any fine art in a museum or fine art publication, always height x width… just about everything else is width x height.

Bogdan March 20, pm. It has nothing with applications as reference. Application designers just followed simple rule. You read everything from left to right and top to bottom. Got it? David March 30, am. What is confusing is that digital image dimensions are expressed in the opposite order from flat art paintings, etc. Orin July 17, pm. Reading has nothing to do with a standard like this, it comes from geometry as translated to computer programs, which are based on x w and y h.

JJ July 22, pm. Funny… I came here to prove someone wrong. A lot of people think the smaller number should always be listed first.

It makes no logical sense and drives me mad. Dereklotek August 11, pm. All seem to be width x height. So I am going with that. Gretchen August 19, pm. I think the reasoning is simple and anatomical: our eyes are oriented horizontally on our faces.

So I think we are more quickly and likely to think in terms of a more horizontal world around us as the priority. Rust August 26, pm.

Layout orientation-wise using a letter-sized paper, 8. Crystal September 5, pm. Miguel September 8, am. Since drywall is installed running wider rather than taller…… HxW makes more sense, no? Jay Tucker September 18, am. In normal practice, the smaller value is assumed to be the width and the bigger value as the height or length. Mike O'Leary January 19, pm. The first number has always been the width, Doors, windows. Height is another story. The portrait however seems to change the dynamics , HxW.

The door industry also confuses this issue when you call a door a right hand swing or left hand swing. Commercial door ordering is opposite of residential door orders. The lesson here is to ask what all the values are when ordering. Outside of the mathematics class, context usually guides our choice of vocabulary: the length of a string, the width of a doorway, the height of a flagpole, the depth of a pool. But in describing rectangles or brick-shaped objects, the choice of vocabulary seems less clear.

Question: Should we label the two dimensions of a rectangle length and width ; or width and height ; or even length and height? The choice of vocabulary here is entirely about clarity and lack of ambiguity. In mathematics as elsewhere, the purpose of specialized vocabulary is to serve clear, unambiguous communication. In this case, our natural way of talking gives us some guidelines. Length: If you choose to use the word length , it should refer to the longest dimension of the rectangle.

Think of how you would describe the distance along a road: it is the long distance, the length of the road. Round your measurement off to the nearest 1 in 2. The length will be the largest measurement on the majority of packages.

Many shipping serves only handle packages of up to a certain size, which is typically noted in whole inches. Turn your measuring tool 90 degrees to find the width.

Stretch your ruler or tape across the package from edge-to-edge, then round to the nearest full inch. Hold your measuring tool vertically to record the height. Measure the standing side of the box from bottom to top, or vice versa. Look back over the measurements you wrote down earlier and multiply the width and height dimensions by 2.

Then, add the doubled width and doubled height together. The number you get will be the estimated girth of the box. The girth measurement only applies to the area encircling the shortest side of the package. Calculate the combined length and girth to get your total package size. Sometimes when shipping ground packages, you might be asked to provide the overall size of the package. To do this, simply add the length and girth measurements together.

Method 2. Measure the length, width, and height of your package. Round each of your measurements off to the nearest whole inch and write them down on a piece of paper.

When calculating the dimensional weight of a package, it doesn't matter which measurement corresponds to which side—all that matters is that all of your measurements are as accurate as possible. They will not work for metric measurements. To use the formulas below with the metric system, replace with Multiply the length, width, and height of the box to calculate its cubic size.

Cubic size is essentially the same thing as volume, which indicates the amount of space inside the box. Divide the cubic size by the appropriate divisor to get the dimensional weight. For shipments being sent within the U. S or Puerto Rico, divide the cubic size of your package by