Monitor Aspect Ratios
Aspect Ratio↕ | Common Name↕ | Typical Resolution↕ | Peak Era↕ | Best For↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:3 | Standard / Fullscreen | 1024x768, 1600x1200 | 1990s-early 2000s | Old documents, legacy apps, retro gaming | The CRT era, old TVs, letterboxed DVDs |
| 5:4 | SXGA | 1280x1024 | Early 2000s | Office work on old LCDs | Oddball LCD-era ratio, felt slightly too tall |
| 16:10 | Golden / Widescreen | 1920x1200, 2560x1600 | Mid 2000s, returning in 2020s | Productivity, coding, document editing | MacBooks, ThinkPads, the productivity ratio |
| 16:9 | HD Widescreen | 1920x1080, 3840x2160 | 2010s-present | Video, gaming, general use | The universal default, matches HDTV broadcast |
| 21:9 | Ultrawide | 2560x1080, 3440x1440 | 2015-present | Immersive gaming, multitasking, video editing | Cinematic letterbox match, racing sim favorite |
| 32:9 | Super Ultrawide | 3840x1080, 5120x1440 | 2018-present | Flight sims, trading desks, multi-monitor replacement | Samsung Odyssey G9, 'wider than your peripheral vision' |
| 3:2 | DIN / Photo | 2256x1504, 3000x2000 | 2015-present (laptops) | Photography, web browsing, document work | Microsoft Surface, Chromebook Pixel, film photo ratio |
| 1:1 | Square | 1920x1920, 2560x2560 | Niche, 2010s-present | Social media workflows, Instagram editing | LG DualUp, Eizo FlexScan, niche creative tool |
| 18:9 | Univisium / Phone | 2160x1080 | 2017-2019 (phones) | Modern smartphones (briefly) | LG G6 era, bridge to taller phone displays |
| 2:1 (18.5:9) | Tall phone | 2280x1080 | 2018-present | Smartphones | Samsung Galaxy S8 era, the notch era default |
| 19.5:9 | Taller phone | 2436x1125 | 2017-present | iPhone | iPhone X ratio, extended above the notch |
| 15:9 | WXGA (old) | 1280x768 | Early 2000s | Early widescreen laptops | Pre-HD laptop displays, transitional ratio |
| 256:135 (DCI) | DCI 4K | 4096x2160 | 2013-present | Professional film, reference monitors | Cinema 4K standard, wider than consumer UHD |
| 2.39:1 | Cinemascope | Anamorphic 2.39:1 | Film only | Theatrical movies | Christopher Nolan favorite, black bars on 16:9 TVs |
| 17:9 | Wide DCI | 4096x2160 | Pro video | Digital cinema masters | True DCI standard used by projection |
| 16:18 | LG DualUp | 2560x2880 | 2022-present | Stacked window workflows, vertical content | LG's experimental tall 'two 16:9 stacked' monitor |
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