

(Ours are here.) You may want to avoid these, however, because while they may fit your own binder they may not fit a friend’s binder you wish to share with. In the past decade a few brands have expanded to 5×7” recipe cards. (Our 4×6 recipe cards are here.) The vast majority of all current recipe cards are this size.

As kitchens expanded, so did the capacity of recipe boxes and binders to allow for the now standard 4×6” recipe card. (Our own 3×5 recipe cards can be found here.) The old recipe card boxes they fit into were designed for America’s small kitchens. The 3×5” card is the standard card for most of the last 100 years. Recipe Card Sizes: There are generally 3 sizes of recipe cards to consider. Here’s a snippet from the page, but you can read the full text here:

I’m posting it here in case you haven’t seen it yet. We added an info graphic about recipe card sizes too. We’ve put together the most complete information possible about recipe cards (including 400 free printable recipe cards) on a special section of our recipe card site.
