Format profile / HALF-LETTER
Half Letter (Statement)
139.7 × 215.9 mm · 5.5 × 8.5 in
Width
139.7 mm
Height
215.9 mm
Area
302 cm²
Finished-size ledger
Pixel canvas by resolution
rounded to whole pixelsBleed and safe-area canvases
confirm with your printer3 mm on every edge
145.7 × 221.9 mm
Artwork canvas with bleed. Keep essential content inside roughly 133.7 × 209.9 mm if the same distance is also used as a simple safety margin.
5 mm on every edge
149.7 × 225.9 mm
Artwork canvas with bleed. Keep essential content inside roughly 129.7 × 205.9 mm if the same distance is also used as a simple safety margin.
Closest standard formats
both edges comparedWhere Half Letter (Statement) fits
3 common usesNext in the North America drawer
larger / smallerSet up Half Letter (Statement) artwork without guessing
Start the document at the finished size—139.7 × 215.9 mm—and add the bleed your printer specifies outside that edge. A common 3 mm bleed produces a 145.7 × 221.9 mm artwork canvas. Keep type, logos, folds, and other critical details inside the trim line; a safety margin is not the same thing as bleed.
Pixel dimensions only become meaningful when paired with a resolution. At 300 DPI, this format is 1,650 × 2,550 pixels. Changing that number in an export dialog without resampling does not add image detail—it only changes the declared physical scale.
Half Letter (Statement) belongs to the North American group. Its 1:1.545 proportion differs from the ISO √2 family, so moving an existing layout to A-series paper can change margins, line length, and page count.