Paper size impossible to encounter ISO standard papers in day-to-day uses, with "Carta" (Letter), "Oficio" (Government-Legal) and "Doble carta" (Ledger/Tabloid) being nearly universal. In Canada, US paper sizes are a de facto standard. The government, however, also uses ISO paper sizes. There is an additional paper size, , to which the name "Government-Letter" was given by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG). It was prescribed by Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce to be used for US government forms, apparently to enable discounts from the purchase of paper for schools, but more likely due to the standard use of trimming
Tabloid (newspaper format) format "compact" to avoid the down-market connotation of the word "tabloid". Similarly, when referring to the down-market tabloid newspapers the alternative term "red-top" (referring to their traditionally red-coloured mastheads) is increasingly used, to distinguish them from the up- and middle-market compact newspapers. The Morning Star also comes in tabloid format; however, it avoids celebrity stories, and instead favours issues relating to labour unions. In Canada many newspapers of Postmedia's "Sun" brand are in tabloid format including "The Province", a newspaper for the British Columbia market. The Canadian publisher Black Press publishes newspapers in both tabloid ( wide by deep) and