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Canvas sizes for drawing

An A4 canvas is 2480 × 3508 pixels at 300 dpi, and US Letter is 2550 × 3300. Below are the pixel sizes for print, comics, webtoons and social posts, at the resolution each one needs, and how to set them up in Rindraw.

Print sizes are at 300 dpi. Checked October 29, 2026.

Print, at 300 dpi

300 dots per inch is what most printers ask for. Multiply the size in inches by 300 to get pixels, or divide millimeters by 25.4 first.

SizePaperPixels
A3297 × 420 mm3508 × 4961
A4210 × 297 mm2480 × 3508
A5148 × 210 mm1748 × 2480
US Letter8.5 × 11 in2550 × 3300
US Legal8.5 × 14 in2550 × 4200
Tabloid11 × 17 in3300 × 5100
4 × 6 photo4 × 6 in1200 × 1800
5 × 7 print5 × 7 in1500 × 2100
8 × 10 print8 × 10 in2400 × 3000

Comics

FormatSizePixels
US comic page, trim6.625 × 10.25 in1988 × 3075
US comic page, with bleed6.875 × 10.5 in2063 × 3150
WEBTOON Canvas, each image800 px wide800 × 1280 at most
Kindle eBook cover1.6 times as tall as wide1600 × 2560

Social posts and screens

WhereShapePixels
Instagram, square1:11080 × 1080
Instagram, portrait4:51080 × 1350
Instagram, portrait, uncropped on the grid3:41080 × 1440
Instagram Stories and Reels9:161080 × 1920
YouTube thumbnail16:93840 × 2160
YouTube banner16:92560 × 1440
LINE stickerat most370 × 320
Podcast cover1:13000 × 3000
X header3:11500 × 500
4K screen16:93840 × 2160

Each size, its own page

Every size with its safe areas, its file limits, and how to set it up.

Print

Comics and books

Online

Setting up a canvas in Rindraw

Choose New Drawing › Custom Canvas, then give the width and height in pixels, millimeters, centimeters or inches, with a resolution from 1 to 2400 dpi. Save it as a preset to use again. A3, A4, A5, US Letter, US Legal, 4 × 6, Square and 4K are built in.

A canvas can be up to 16,384 pixels a side. Drawing on the 2026 iPad mini? Its screen is 2316 × 1512 pixels; see drawing on the new iPad mini.

Why the size matters less in Rindraw

In most drawing apps the canvas size is the most detail you'll ever get: a sketch drawn at screen size stays at screen size. Rindraw keeps each stroke as the path you drew, so when you export at a bigger size it draws the strokes again at that size, sharp. Pick the canvas for its shape, then export as big as the print needs. Pictures you import are the exception: they're pixels, and stay at the size they came in.

For a series, such as a comic with several pages, frames can sit side by side on one canvas and leave as a PDF, a page each. Coming from Procreate? Your canvases come with you.

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