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Part 5: Drawing a design

2. Paper sizes

Illustration showing dimensions of paper sizes compared.

Bromskloss via Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

As you can see from this image, the largest standard paper size is A0. Then each time you cut this in half you get the next size down.

  • A1 is half the size of A0
  • A2 is half the size of A1
  • and so on.

It can sometimes feel a bit tricky to choose a paper size to draw your design on. While A3 or A4 should be sufficient for most drawings of structures, the paper size for drawing a whole garden at a sensible scale, so that all features can be seen clearly, will likely be A2 or A1. Occasionally you may use A0, but this is very large and it can be difficult to get A0 drawings copied, apart from in specialist print shops.