Document covers · 2480 × 3508
A4 document cover templates — 2480 × 3508
210 × 297 mm at 300 DPI — the page size used everywhere outside North America. Its proportions are not arbitrary, and that turns out to be genuinely useful.
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A4 portrait specification
| Pixel dimensions | 2480 × 3508 |
|---|---|
| Physical size | 210 × 297 mm · 8.27 × 11.69 in |
| Resolution | 300 DPI |
| With 3 mm bleed | 2516 × 3544 px |
| Safe margin | 5 mm minimum — 59 px |
| Palettes included |
Where this size is used
- Reports, whitepapers and proposals outside North America
- Documents printed in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America
- Anything that may be scaled to A5 or A3 later
- Covers destined for an office printer, which is A4 by default in most of the world
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Designing for 2480 × 3508
The √2 ratio, and why it matters
Every ISO 216 paper size has the same proportion — the long side is √2 times the short side. That is what makes A4 fold in half to exactly A5, and two A4 sheets side by side exactly A3, with no change of shape.
In practice it means a design made at A4 scales to any other A-size without reflowing or re-cropping. Print the same cover at A5 for a handout or A3 for a poster and the layout is unchanged; only the physical dimensions move. No North American size has this property.
Bleed and margins in millimetres
The European convention is 3 mm of bleed on each side, which at 300 DPI is about 35 pixels — making the working canvas 2516 × 3544 for a page that trims to 2480 × 3508.
Keep text and logos at least 5 mm inside the trim, and preferably 10 mm if the document will be bound, because binding eats the inner edge. A perfect-bound spine can consume 10 mm or more before anything is readable.
A4 is not US Letter
A4 is narrower and taller than Letter: 8.27 × 11.69 inches against 8.5 × 11. Sending an A4 design to a North American print shop produces a page with wider side margins and a clipped or letterboxed vertical edge, depending on how their software scales it.
When the audience spans both, the safe approach is to design the content inside the area common to the two and export twice, rather than to design at one size and hope the other scales politely.
Office printers and the margin nobody planned for
Most A4 documents are printed on an office printer rather than at a print shop, and office printers cannot print to the edge. They enforce an unprintable margin, typically 4–5 mm, and their driver silently scales the page down to fit it.
A full-bleed cover printed this way comes out with a white border and every element slightly smaller than designed. If the cover will realistically be printed in an office, design it with a white margin from the start and the result matches the intent.
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