Back صفحة أمامية وصفحة خلفية Arabic Rekto asin berso BCL Recto i verso Catalan Recto og verso Danish Recto y verso Spanish Rekto dan verso ID Recto e verso Italian レクトとヴェルソ Japanese Recto en verso Dutch Recto og verso NB

Recto and verso

"Recto" redirects here. For the road in Manila, Philippines, see Recto Avenue. For the LRT station, see Recto station.
"Recto Verso" redirects here. For the Zaz album, see Recto Verso (album).
"Verso" redirects here. For other uses, see Verso (disambiguation).
Left-to-right language books (e.g. books in Western languages): recto is the front page, verso is the back page. In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following leaf in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous leaf.
Right-to-left language books: recto is the front page, verso is the back page (vertical Chinese, vertical Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew). In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following leaf in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous leaf.

Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper (folium) in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet.

In double-sided printing, each leaf has two pages – front and back. In modern books, the physical sheets of paper are stacked and folded in half, producing two leaves and four pages for each sheet. For example, the outer sheet in a 16-page book will have one leaf with pages 1 (recto) and 2 (verso), and another leaf with pages 15 (recto) and 16 (verso). Pages 1 and 16, for example, are printed on the same side of the physical sheet of paper, combining recto and verso sides of different leaves. The number of pages in a book using this binding technique must thus be a multiple of four, and the number of leaves must be a multiple of two, but unused pages are typically left unnumbered and uncounted. A sheet folded in this manner is known as a folio, a word also used for a book or pamphlet made with this technique.

Looseleaf paper consists of unbound leaves. Sometimes single-sided or blank leaves are used for numbering or counting and abbreviated "l." instead of "p." for the number of pages.

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