The Eurobox System

A printable wall reference for the Eurobox / Euro-container system: the 600 × 400 mm module and its subdivided footprints, the ladder of standard heights with gross volumes, and how the boxes roll up into Euro pallet loads and 20-ft container (TEU) loads. Companion piece to the Incoterms 2020 poster — same sizes, same stack, same design language. All sizes are landscape and print-ready.

Downloads

Size	PDF	PNG	Press-ready PDF
120 × 80 cm (primary)	PDF	PNG	PDF/X-1a
A1 (84.1 × 59.4 cm)	PDF	PNG	PDF/X-1a
A2 (59.4 × 42 cm)	PDF	PNG	PDF/X-1a

• PDF — digital print file: RGB, embedded fonts, 5 mm bleed and crop marks.
• PNG — trim-only raster at 96 dpi, good for screens or casual printing.
• Press-ready PDF — PDF/X-1a, CMYK, fonts outlined; hand this to a print shop.

What's on it

1. One module, four footprints — the 600 × 400 mm module and its straight subdivisions (400 × 300, 300 × 200, 200 × 150), shown tiling a Euro pallet deck four different ways.
2. Standard heights & volumes — the 600 × 400 footprint in its standard heights (75–420 mm) with gross external volume for each.
3. The Euro pallet — EUR/EPAL 1 (1200 × 800 × 144 mm): 4 boxes per layer, with stack diagrams for the 220 mm and 320 mm workhorse heights to a 2.0 m load height.
4. From one box to a container load — box → layer → pallet → TEU, with an 11-pallet 20-ft floor plan (one loaded pallet ≈ 1/11 ≈ 9% of a TEU).

Figures and the underlying arithmetic are collected in reference/eurobox-system.md.

Stack

Built entirely from HTML/CSS — no design tools. A single master template (src/poster.html) is rendered to PDF at each size with Vivliostyle CLI (CSS Paged Media) driving a local Chrome/Chromium; Ghostscript produces the press-ready variants and Poppler (pdftoppm) rasterizes the PNGs. All graphics (the isometric box, pallet diagrams, TEU floor plan) are hand-drawn inline SVG and CSS. Typeface is IBM Plex Sans (+ Condensed), vendored under the SIL OFL 1.1. Designed with Claude Code.

npm install
npm run build                # digital PDFs for all three sizes
PRESS_READY=1 npm run build  # additionally emit PDF/X-1a press variants
npm run png                  # trim-only PNG exports into posters/png/
npm run preview              # low-dpi PNG previews into posters/preview/

License & attribution

Quick-reference summary only — dimensions are nominal; check your manufacturer's datasheet for internal (usable) volumes and load ratings. Share with attribution: Daniel Rosehill & Claude Code.