Standard drawing tablet sizes

Overview

There is no accepted industry standard set of sizes of names for size categories. Seeing a product with "LARGE" or "MEDIUM" or "SMALL" does not mean anything consistent across brands and often not even within brands.

To make it easier to discuss tablet sizes, based on an analysis of several hundred drawing tablets and using Wacom's sizing as a guideline, I have established these size categories.

I define these categories:

• TINY

• SMALL

• MEDIUM

• LARGE

• EXTRA LARGE

To reflect the reality that pen tablets and pen displays are very different sizing, there are one set of sizes for pen tablets and another for pen displays. For example a TINY pen display is about the same as a SMALL pen tablet.

Pen tablet sizes

Category	Diagonal Size metric	Diagonal size imperial
TINY	6 cm to 16 cm	2" to 6"
SMALL	16 cm to 24 cm	6" to 9"
MEDIUM	24 cm to 36 cm	9" to 14"
LARGE	36 cm to 50cm	14" to 20"
EXTRA LARGE	50 cm to 74 cm	20" to 29"

NOTES:

• To keep the ranges using whole numbers, the metric and imperial size ranges are close but are not the exact same sizes

Pen display sizes

Category	Diagonal Size metric	Diagonal size imperial
TINY	11 cm to 13 cm	11" to 13"
SMALL	28 cm to 39 cm	13"m to 15"
MEDIUM	38 cm to 50 cm	15" to 20"
LARGE	50 cm to 76 cm	20" to 30"
EXTRA LARGE	76 cm to 86 cm	30" to 34"

NOTES:

• To keep the ranges using whole numbers, the metric and imperial size ranges are close but are not the exact same sizes