The Boxy Renaissance: Why the 3:4 Aspect Ratio Is Everywhere Again

Take a look around your digital life. Your computer monitor is likely a wide rectangle, and the movie you streamed last night probably stretched across your screen in a cinematic widescreen format.

Yet, if you look at your smartphone camera settings, scroll through vintage-style photo dumps on social media, or boot up certain retro games, you will notice a different shape dominating the frame: the 3:4 aspect ratio (often spoken of in its landscape form as 4:3).