Button Templates and Artwork Specs

A pin-back button wraps your artwork around the edge of a steel shell, so your design needs to be slightly larger than the finished button, with the important content kept safely in the centre. Here is everything you need to set up your file correctly — and if any of this sounds like too much, skip it: upload any image to the button calculator and our team will check the wrap zone and send you a free digital proof before anything gets pressed.

The three zones of a button design

• Safe area (centre ~75% of the face): keep all text, faces, and logos here. This is what people see straight-on.
• Face edge: background colour or pattern should continue through this ring, but nothing critical.
• Wrap zone (about a quarter inch beyond the face on all sides): this wraps around the shell edge and behind the button. Extend your background colour or image through this zone so no white slivers show at the edge.

Minimum artwork size by button size

Set your file to 300 DPI. The easiest rule: make your artwork half an inch larger than the finished button, which builds in the wrap zone automatically.

• 1″ button: artwork 1.5″ × 1.5″ — at least 450 × 450 pixels
• 1.25″ button: artwork 1.75″ × 1.75″ — at least 525 × 525 pixels
• 1.5″ button: artwork 2″ × 2″ — at least 600 × 600 pixels
• 1.75″ button: artwork 2.25″ × 2.25″ — at least 675 × 675 pixels
• 2.25″ button (bestseller): artwork 2.75″ × 2.75″ — at least 825 × 825 pixels
• 2.5″ button: artwork 3″ × 3″ — at least 900 × 900 pixels
• 3″ button: artwork 3.5″ × 3.5″ — at least 1050 × 1050 pixels
• 3.5″ button: artwork 4″ × 4″ — at least 1200 × 1200 pixels
• 4″ button: artwork 4.5″ × 4.5″ — at least 1350 × 1350 pixels

Square, rectangle, and oval buttons follow the same rule: finished size plus half an inch in each direction. Phone photos are usually plenty of resolution for photo buttons — see how to design photo buttons.

Download a template

Ready-made Button Bros templates with the bleed and safety zones already drawn, sized exactly for our presses. Open in Illustrator, Photoshop, Canva, or any design tool; place your artwork over the guides; delete the guide layer or send it as-is — we strip guides at proofing.

• 1″ round template (PDF)
• 1.25″ round template (PDF)
• 1.5″ round template (PDF)
• 1.75″ round template (PDF)
• 2.25″ round (bestseller) template (PDF)
• 2.5″ round template (PDF)
• 3″ round template (PDF)
• 3.5″ round template (PDF)
• 4″ round template (PDF)
• 2″ square template (PDF)
• 2″ × 3″ rectangle template (PDF)
• 1.75″ × 2.75″ oval template (PDF)

File formats

We accept JPG, PNG, PDF, and AI. Vector files (AI or PDF with outlined fonts) give the crispest text at small sizes. For colour-critical work, set your file to CMYK and include Pantone or HEX values in your order notes — we colour-match across reorders.

Stickers, magnets and patches

Flat products are simpler: no wrap zone. Add an eighth of an inch of bleed beyond the cut line, keep text an eighth of an inch inside it, and export at 300 DPI. For die-cut stickers, a vector cut line on its own layer is ideal but not required — we can build the dieline from your shape. Every product gets the same free proof check before production.

Design rules that make buttons work

• Contrast first. Dark text on light backgrounds or the reverse. Avoid placing text over busy photos.
• Fewer words win. A name or a 2 to 3 word slogan reads at a glance; paragraphs do not.
• Scale the type. Text under about 14pt at final size gets hard to read on a 1″ button.
• Not sure? Send it anyway. Our team fixes contrast, sizing, and wrap issues on the proof at no charge.

Button magnet templates

Same wrap construction as pin-back buttons, magnet backing. For our round and square & rectangle button magnets.

• 1″ round (PDF)
• 1.25″ round (PDF)
• 1.5″ round (PDF)
• 1.75″ round (PDF)
• 2.25″ round (PDF)
• 2.5″ round (PDF)
• 3″ round (PDF)
• 3.5″ round (PDF)
• 6″ round (PDF)
• 1.5″ square (PDF)
• 2″ square (PDF)
• 3″ square (PDF)
• 1.75″ × 2.75″ rectangle (PDF)

Fridge magnet templates

Flat magnets with a cut line instead of a wrap: bleed extends a quarter inch past the cut. For round and rectangular magnets, including save the date sizes.

• 1″ × 2″ rectangle (PDF)
• 1″ × 3″ rectangle (PDF)
• 1″ × 4″ rectangle (PDF)
• 2″ × 2″ rectangle (PDF)
• 2″ × 3″ rectangle (PDF)
• 2″ × 3.5″ rectangle (PDF)
• 2″ × 4″ rectangle (PDF)
• 3″ × 3″ rectangle (PDF)
• 3″ × 4″ rectangle (PDF)
• 4″ × 4″ rectangle (PDF)
• 4″ × 5″ rectangle (PDF)
• 4″ × 6″ (save the date) rectangle (PDF)
• 5″ × 7″ (save the date) rectangle (PDF)
• 5″ × 8″ rectangle (PDF)
• 5.5″ × 8.5″ rectangle (PDF)
• 1.75″ circle (PDF)
• 2″ circle (PDF)
• 2.25″ circle (PDF)
• 2.5″ circle (PDF)
• 3″ circle (PDF)
• 3.5″ circle (PDF)
• 4″ circle (PDF)