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C20. BOOK: Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon (Unbound, 2022), p. 72.

When the final head design was completed and placed atop the ‘salt-pillar’ body, it protruded out over the torso’s back and front at a dimension which didn’t match any established proportion or value. Making it stick out a full section, or even half a section, would have made minifigure heads unrealistically large.

Explanation for why the width of a LEGO minifigure head is not an even number of units.