We believe that having a basic understanding of our poster sizes can help you zero in on the right poster size sooner, avoiding the costly process of printing posters at several different sizes to decide. Whether for decorative purposes or advertising and marketing campaigns, knowing how to scale your poster for peak impact adds a professional element to any project, but it can be hard to conceptualize the correct poster size for your project without seeing a few compared side by side.Īs a full-service commercial print shop offering poster printing, we’ve seen it all, so we created this guide to help print designers and buyers easily reference the most common poster sizes and see how they compare to one another at a glance. In our next article we will examine the large range of US Cinema poster that have been used in the past 50 years.In a time where much of what we see is presented in digital formats, posters continue to be an effective and high-impact way to widely share information. These formats were discontinued no later than the 60s. Larger UK cinema posters such as 3 Sheet posters and 6 Sheet posters have previously been printed. Sadly the use of Double Crown cinema posters to promote films in the UK was discontinued in the 90s. Note how the red dots on the double crown poster on the left continue onto the poster on the right. When used for this reason they were purposely designed as pairs. Double Crowns were commonly displayed on either side of the destination sign on the front of London buses. This poster was generally printed in a portrait format and therefore measured 20 x 30 inches. The UK One Sheet is a portrait poster and an example can be seen in the ‘No Time to Dier’ poster which is third from left in the image. This poster has the exact same dimensions as the standard US cinema poster and their use became common practice in UK cinemas around the year 2000. One Sheet posters, which are 27 x 40 inches, are commonly used in UK cinemas. No’ Front of House Card, a ‘No Time to Die’ Mini Quad, a ‘No Time to Die’ UK One Sheet Poster and a set of ‘On her Majesty’s Secret Service Double Crown posters. A scale example of a Dr No Front of House card can be seen in the photo. They typically came in sets of 8 but are no longer used and have been replaced, to a certain extent, by the mini quad.
Front of House Cardįront of House cards in UK generally measured 10 x 8 inches.
The white background ‘No Time to Die’ poster second from left on the image shows a scaled example of a mini quad poster. These posters measure 16 x 12 inches and are printed both in portrait and landscape format. No poster on the far left of the photograph is a scaled example of a UK quad poster. This has meant UK cinema posters for American movies always need to be tweaked or totally re-designed in order to be used in UK cinemas. The Quad poster is always printed in a landscape format which is different to the portrait format of the standard US One Sheet poster. The use of Crown size posters has long been discontinued in UK cinemas. The name derives its origins from the ‘Crown’ poster, which measures 20 x 15 inches. A quadruple crown measure 40 x 30 inches. Quad is an abbreviation for quadruple crown. In this article, we discuss the origins of the Quad poster and other collectible UK cinema posters. As discussed in last week’s blog about the 4 most common posters we stock on the Cinema Poster Gallery, the Quad has been the standard UK cinema poster since the 1930s.