Standard page

Standard page is a unit of information measurement for the amount of text in publishing. A standard page is approximately equal to a single page of text typed on a typewriter.

Despite the name, the unit is not formally standardized, and various entities use various standards for a standard page length:

• 1,875 characters
• 1,800 characters
• 1,680 characters
• 1,500 characters, excluding spaces
• 1,450 characters
• 1,230 characters, excluding spaces

Here, unless otherwise noted, characters include letters, punctuation and spaces.