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[[File:FolioA4.svg|thumb|A comparison of the A4 and Foolscap folio papersize]]

'''Foolscap folio''' (commonly contracted to '''foolscap''' or '''folio''' and in short '''FC''') is [[paper]] cut to the size of {{cvt|8+1/2|xx|13+1/2|in|sigfig=3}} for printing or to {{cvt|8|xx|13|in|sigfig=3}} for "normal" writing paper ('''foolscap''')<ref>[https://papersizes.io/traditional-british/foolscap PaperSizes, foolscap]</ref>. This was a traditional [[paper size]] used in Europe and the British Commonwealth, before the adoption of the international standard [[A4 paper]].

A full (''plano'') foolscap paper sheet is actually {{cvt|13+1/2|xx|17|in}} in size, and a [[folio (printing)|folio]] sheet of any type is half the base sheet size.

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Foolscap was named after the [[Court jester|fool]]'s [[cap and bells]] [[watermark]] commonly used from the fifteenth century onwards on paper of these dimensions.<ref>{{cite book |author=Müller, Lothar |title=White Magic: The Age of Paper. |place=Cambridge|publisher=Polity Press |date=2014|page=173}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/foolscap|title=Foolscap|last=Anon|work=The Free Dictionary|publisher=Farlex Inc.|accessdate=17 September 2009}}</ref> The earliest example of such paper was made in Germany in 1479. Unsubstantiated anecdotes suggest that this watermark was introduced to England in 1580 by [[John Spilman]], a German who established a papermill at [[Dartford (borough)|Dartford]], Kent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/gallery/|title=Entry in the Dartford Holy Trinity parish register for Sir John Spielman (Spillman), 8 November 1626|last=Anon|work=Medway: City Ark Document Gallery|publisher=Medway Council|accessdate=17 September 2009}}</ref> Apocryphally, the [[Rump Parliament]] substituted a fool's cap for the royal arms as a watermark on the paper used for the journals of Parliament.{{cn|date=March 2017}}

==Oficio (mexican)==

In VenezuelaMexico andthe Chile'''foolscap thefolio''' {{convert|8+1/2|×|13+1/2|in|sigfig=3}} paper/ size is named ''oficio''. In Venezuela While(21,6 lawscm expresslyx permit34 anycm) paper size, publicis offices require all documents to be presented innamed ''oficio''. paper size.

In Brazil, the same size is usually named ''folio'', but is also sometimes called ''ofício II''. This is a reference to the {{convert|8+1/2|×|14|in|sigfig=3|adj=on}} paper size, which is known as ''ofício'' in Portuguese, despite being called ''legal'' in English .

==F4==