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> When I'm in Europe the A4 page looks too svelte.

Off-topic but as a non-native English speaker, TIL what svelte means lol. I often get exposure of new words first from a product name. Same happened with Chrome.

B5

B series paper sizes is a thing I knew but wish I didn't.

See also C series. Thankfully largely a moot point now.

Assuming "squat" and "svelte" refer to the aspect ratio, isn't B5 going to look just as "svelte" as A4?

Also sqrt(2) isn't the golden number. Not far from it but still...

The golden ratio makes for even less balanced paper than sqrt(2)