About Caliber Desk
Last updated 2026-09-18
Caliber Desk is a measurement reference for the desk you actually sit at. Every entry answers one question with a number, a band, and the reason the band is where it is.
What this site is
Most desk-setup advice is a photograph with a slogan under it: sit up straight, raise your monitor, take breaks. None of that tells you how high. Caliber Desk is the opposite approach. Each entry takes a single factor that decides whether a workstation is comfortable over an eight-hour day, states the measurement in centimetres, gives the band it may sit in, and explains what changes at either end of the band.
The site is organised as six numbered chapters, the way a set of drawings is organised rather than the way a blog is: seating baseline, work surface, display and sightline, reach and peripherals, standing and motion, compact rooms and light. The numbering is stable. When a new entry is added it takes its place inside a chapter instead of arriving at the top of a feed.
How the numbers are produced
Every recommended figure is derived from an anthropometric ratio applied to body height, and the ratio is printed next to the result. Seat height is 0.245 of stature. Standing desk height is 0.618 of stature, which is the standing elbow height where a relaxed forearm reaches a keyboard without the shoulder lifting. Standing eye height is 0.935 of stature, and the top of the screen belongs five to ten centimetres below that line.
Ratios are honest about their limits. They describe a healthy adult in the middle of the population distribution. They do not account for limb-length differences, old injuries, a sling, a cast, or a wheelchair. Where a band exists it is usually 8 to 12 centimetres wide precisely because bodies differ inside the same stature.
What the drawings are
Every entry carries an isometric technical drawing generated from the entry's own numbers. The drawings are stroke-only wireframes: graphite lines for the geometry, safety orange reserved for the one or two dimensions that carry the decision. Numbered circles on the drawing map to rows in the measurement table below it.
The drawings are generated from the same JSON the page renders from, so a correction to a number moves the dimension line with it. They are not decorative stock images and they are not photographs of a sponsored product.
What this site will not do
Caliber Desk does not sell furniture, does not accept payment for placement inside an entry, and does not run affiliate links dressed up as recommendations. The budget bands at the end of each entry describe what a category of product has to do to be worth buying at that price - they name a specification, not a brand.
Nothing here is medical advice. If measuring is not enough to make your working day comfortable, the next step is a clinician or a qualified ergonomist who can watch you sit, not a longer page.