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Tissue box sizes

A tissue box is a glued carton with sealed ends and an opening in the top: you tear out a perforated oval and pull the tissues through it one at a time. The flat box of about a hundred facial tissues is the common size. Hotels, clinics and brands print their own, and the same box holds napkins, dry wipes or gloves.

Typical sizes

BoxLength × width × heightDieline
Flat box, 100 tissues 225 × 121 × 51 mm
8.9 × 4.8 × 2.0
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Slim flat box, 100 tissues 215 × 110 × 42 mm
8.5 × 4.3 × 1.7
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Sizes of boxes on sale, not a standard. The box follows the folded tissue: measure your stack, add 1–2 mm each way, and type those numbers.

How to measure

  • Length: the long side, along the opening.
  • Width: front to back, across the top. It can't be more than the length.
  • Height: how tall the box stands. A taller stack of tissues needs a taller box, nothing else changes.

Our sizes are crease to crease, so the panels are exactly the length, width and height you type.

Which opening?

The default is a tear-out oval: a line of small cuts in the top that you push through and tear away. It is about three quarters of the length and two fifths of the width, as on boxes in the shops. Factory-filled boxes often have a thin film with a slit behind the oval, which holds the next tissue up. That film is added on the packing line and is not part of the dieline. The other choice, a push-in flap, keeps the board on the box: a strip across the top with two finger cuts.

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