Product types and sizes
Starting a design from a product type sets a sensible default size. You can always change the size, switch units, or start from a custom size. See Artboard sizes.
Product types
| Type | Default size (px) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Business Card | 700 x 400 | Standard 3.5 x 2 in, the only type with a front and back side |
| Logo | 500 x 500 | Square |
| CV / Resume | 595 x 842 | A4 proportions |
| Invoice | 595 x 842 | A4 proportions |
| Social Post | 1080 x 1080 | Square |
| Story / Reel | 1080 x 1920 | Vertical, 9:16 |
| Banner | 1200 x 628 | Link and share banner |
| 600 x 900 | Email header graphic | |
| Slide Deck | 1600 x 900 | 16:9, opened from the slide deck flow rather than the format picker |
| Video | 1920 x 1080 | Full HD, 16:9, opened from the video flow rather than the format picker |
| Custom | 50 to 4096 px per side | Set your own width and height, within that range |
Slide Deck and Video aren't format-picker tiles
These two have their own dedicated starting points, a slide deck flow and a video flow, rather than appearing as tiles in the general new-design picker alongside Business Card, Social Post, and the rest.
Your dashboard shows a short list, not the full table
The dashboard's quick-start tiles cover the handful of formats people start most often (business card, social post, presentation, video, and a custom-size tile), not every named type in the table below. Reach the rest, Logo, CV/Resume, Invoice, Banner, Email, through a template of that type in the templates gallery, or start from Custom size and type the numbers from the table yourself.
Common presets
When you pick a custom size, these presets save you from measuring.
Social
| Preset | Size (px) |
|---|---|
| Instagram Post | 1080 x 1080 |
| Instagram Story | 1080 x 1920 |
| Facebook Post | 1200 x 630 |
| Facebook Cover | 820 x 312 |
| Twitter Header | 1500 x 500 |
| Twitter Post | 1200 x 675 |
| LinkedIn Banner | 1584 x 396 |
| LinkedIn Post | 1200 x 627 |
| YouTube Thumbnail | 1280 x 720 |
| Pinterest Pin | 1000 x 1500 |
| Preset | Size (px) |
|---|---|
| A4 Portrait | 595 x 842 |
| A4 Landscape | 842 x 595 |
| Letter Portrait | 612 x 792 |
| Letter Landscape | 792 x 612 |
Print presets are given in pixels at the same 72 dpi basis as the rest of the app's page sizes, switch to millimeters or inches in the size field if you'd rather work in a physical unit.
Business Card and its second side
Business Card is the one product type built around two sides at once, front and back are kept together as a single dual-face design rather than two separate pages, so exporting one exports both. See the glossary entry for dual face.
Choosing between a product type and Custom
Pick a named product type when one matches what you're making, its default size is a sensible starting point and it may unlock type-specific behavior, like the business card's front and back. Reach for Custom when nothing fits, a poster, an unusual banner, or a size a client specifically requested, and either type in exact numbers or start from one of the presets above.
Units
Switch between pixels, millimeters, centimeters, and inches when you set a size. Print work is easiest in millimeters or inches, screen work in pixels.
Step by step: starting from a preset instead of typing numbers
- From the dashboard, choose Custom size rather than a named tile.
- Look for a list of common presets grouped by category, social and print are the two groups covered in the table above, rather than typing width and height from memory.
- Pick one, Instagram Story or A4 Portrait, for example, and the canvas is created at exactly that size.
- If you need a size not listed anywhere, type the width and height directly, anywhere from 50 to 4096 pixels per side, or the equivalent once you switch units to millimeters, centimeters, or inches.
Common tasks
Change a design's size after you've already started. Use the Resize controls rather than starting a new design, your content stays, only the canvas dimensions change, so you may need to reposition or rescale a few things afterward.
Make one campaign in every common social size. Design it once at any size, then duplicate the page for each platform and resize each copy using the presets table above rather than re-measuring for every platform by hand.
Design a print piece with the trim in mind. Choose a print product type, Business Card or CV/Resume, or a custom size in millimeters or inches, and turn on bleed and safe-zone guides so you can see the trim margin and the do-not-cut area while you work. See Guides, grid, and rulers.
Print a two-sided piece. Business Card is the one type built for this, front and back are part of the same design and export together, see the section below.
Related
- Artboard sizes
- Bulk builder for generating many pages of one product type from a spreadsheet
- Supported formats