Poster maker

The editor opens with a poster template on the canvas, and the gallery has more to switch between: event posters, sale and announcement posters, photo-first designs and bold type-only layouts. Every element is editable.

• Text: more than 40 free fonts, bold weights for headlines, gradient fills, outline, shadow, highlight background and curved text.
• Photos: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF and iPhone HEIC. Crop and zoom inside frames such as circles, arches or rounded rectangles, and apply filters like vivid, dramatic or black and white.
• Graphics: 20+ shapes, lines and arrows, recolorable stickers, and color, gradient, pattern or photo backgrounds.
• Layout tools: layers, smart alignment guides with snapping, align and distribute, group and lock.

Save your organization's colors, fonts and logo in the brand kit, then apply them to any template in one click.

Size	Inches	Metric	Typical use
Letter	8.5 × 11	216 × 279 mm	Bulletin boards, home printing
Tabloid	11 × 17	279 × 432 mm	Shop windows, hallways, events
Medium poster	18 × 24	457 × 610 mm	Storefronts, lobbies, wall art
Large poster	24 × 36 (custom)	610 × 914 mm	Movie-style posters, trade shows
A3	11.7 × 16.5	297 × 420 mm	Printing outside the US
50 × 70 cm	19.7 × 27.6	500 × 700 mm	European frame size

Switch sizes at any time: the layout adapts automatically, so a Letter design becomes an 18 × 24 in poster or an Instagram post without starting over. For other sizes, enter a custom size in inches, millimeters or pixels.

Print sizes include a 3 mm (about 1/8 in) bleed, and the editor shows the trim line and safe zone. Letter, Tabloid and A3 render at 300 dpi; the largest posters, such as 18 × 24 in and 50 × 70 cm, render at 150 dpi, which looks sharp at the distance people view a poster from and keeps the file manageable.

A poster is read from across a room or a street, often in a few seconds.

• The three-second test: what is it, when is it, and what should I do? If those three are not obvious, simplify.
• One dominant headline. Make it the largest thing on the page, and keep it to a few words.
• Strong contrast. Dark on light or light on dark. Use the highlight background or a shadow when text sits on a photo.
• Limit the fonts to two: a display font for the headline and a plain one for details.
• Leave space. Empty areas make the important parts stand out.
• Group the details (date, time, place, website) in one block, aligned on one edge.
• One image, big. One strong photo beats a collage of small ones on a poster.

Download the PDF for a print shop. It includes the bleed and crop marks that printers ask for, so the background runs cleanly to the edge after trimming. If your printer prefers a vector file, export SVG with fonts embedded.

At home, Letter-size posters print fine at Fit to page; most home printers leave a small white margin, so keep important text inside the safe zone. For 11 × 17 and larger, use a print shop or an online printing service. Use your best original photos for large sizes: an image saved from social media may look soft at 18 × 24 in.

Matte paper avoids glare under bright lights; gloss makes photos pop. For outdoor use, ask your printer about weather-resistant materials.

A poster is made to be seen from a distance and hung up; a flyer is made to be handed out and read up close, with more detail. If you need handouts, the flyer maker starts from flyer templates in Letter and half-letter sizes.

Most events need both, plus a social media version. Design the poster once, then switch the size to an Instagram post (1080 × 1350) or a story (1080 × 1920) and download a PNG or JPG. For wide web headers and display ads, use the banner maker.

Your photos and text never leave your device: the poster is designed and exported in your browser, with no watermark and no sign-up.