Graphic Design Editor (Posters, Social Posts, Thumbnails)

About the Graphic Design Editor (Posters, Social Posts, Thumbnails)

A design editor for quick graphics, right in your browser. Start from a page size — an Instagram post or Story, a YouTube thumbnail, an X or LinkedIn post, a Pinterest Pin, a banner, an A4 or A3 poster, a flyer, an invitation — or a size of your own, and build the design from text in nine open-source fonts, shapes, 100 icons, your own photos and SVG artwork, gradients and QR codes. Move, resize and rotate anything on the page, and it snaps to the page edges, the centre and other objects; arrange it with layers, align it, group it, lock it, and undo any step.

Your design is saved in this browser as you work, and your recent designs are listed when you come back. Download it as PNG, JPG or WebP at up to 4× the page size, as a PDF at its real print size, or as an SVG with its text and fonts inside — or save a project file to continue on another device. Nothing is uploaded: the editor runs on your device, and there is no account.

Common uses

• Social media posts, Stories, Pins and profile banners.
• YouTube thumbnails and channel banners, and presentation slides.
• Posters, flyers, menus, notices and invitations to print.
• Sale and event announcements with a QR code to a website, a menu or a payment page.
• Quick graphics for blog posts, link previews and website banners.

Page sizes

• Social media: Instagram square 1,080 × 1,080 and portrait 1,080 × 1,350 (Instagram keeps photos up to 1,080 px wide and shows 1.91:1 to 3:4 uncropped, Instagram Help); Story and Reel cover 1,080 × 1,920 (9:16) with a safe-area guide from Meta’s ad specifications; X post 1,600 × 900 (inside the 2:1 to 3:4 range X shows uncropped); LinkedIn post 1,200 × 627; Pinterest Pin 1,000 × 1,500; Facebook Page cover 851 × 315; X header 1,500 × 500; LinkedIn profile banner 1,584 × 396.
• Video and slides: YouTube thumbnail 1,920 × 1,080 (download at 2× for the recommended 3,840 × 2,160, YouTube Help); YouTube channel banner 2,560 × 1,440 with its centre safe area (YouTube Help); slides 1,920 × 1,080.
• Web: link preview (Open Graph) 1,200 × 630 (Meta for Developers) and a 1,920 × 600 banner.
• Print: A3, A4 and A5 (ISO 216: 297 × 420, 210 × 297 and 148 × 210 mm), US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), a 5 × 7 in invitation and a 6 × 4 in postcard, all at 300 pixels per inch.

Platforms change their sizes from time to time: the Social Media Image Size Guide lists every placement, with its source.

Downloads

• PNG: lossless — best for text, logos and flat colours; transparent where the page has no background.
• JPG: the smallest files for photo-heavy designs.
• PNG and JPG files of print sizes carry their resolution (the print presets: 300 dpi at 1×, 600 dpi at 2×), so printing and layout apps place them at the page’s real size.
• WebP: small files with transparency; most current apps and browsers open it.
• PDF: one page at the design’s real size (print sizes at their millimetre size, others at 96 pixels per inch), containing the design as one high-resolution picture — the text is not selectable in it.
• SVG: shapes and text stay vectors, sharp at any size, and the fonts are embedded (they are open-source fonts under the SIL Open Font License, which allows this); text in Device font is not, so other apps show it in a font of their own. Photos are embedded in the file. Shadows and some effects can look slightly different in other apps.
• Project file (.json): the whole design with every layer and photo, to open again here on any device. When a project file is opened, only the editor’s own kinds of objects and the pictures stored inside the file are used, so a file from someone else cannot make your browser load anything from other sites.

Tips for designs that work

• Keep one main message and make it big: most people see posts on a phone screen only a few centimetres wide.
• Use two fonts at most, and enough contrast between text and background — an outline or a highlight helps text over photos.
• Leave margins: keep text away from the edges, and inside the safe area on Stories and YouTube banners.
• For print, check that photos are large enough (a photo should be at least as many pixels as the area it covers at 300 dpi), and that QR codes are at least 2 cm wide.

Limitations

• One page per design; there are no ready-made templates or stock photos — you start from a blank page with your own pictures.
• Colours are RGB. For professional printing in CMYK, your printer converts the file; bleed and crop marks are not added.
• The PDF contains the design as a picture (text not selectable); use SVG for a vector file.
• Pictures are reduced to at most 4,096 pixels on their longer side when you add them (2,560 for pictures with transparency), and pages can be at most 8,000 pixels on a side and 40 megapixels.
• Designs are saved in this browser only (the 12 most recent); save a project file to keep a copy elsewhere.

Privacy

Everything happens in your browser. Your designs and the pictures in them are kept only in this browser’s storage on your device and are never uploaded; delete them under “Your designs” or on the Cookies & storage page.