The standard art print sizes are 5 × 7, 8 × 10, 11 × 14, 16 × 20, 18 × 24 and 24 × 36 inches, plus A5 to A2 for buyers who use metric paper. At 300 DPI, the resolution for paper, they need from 1,500 × 2,100 pixels for a 5 × 7 up to 7,200 × 10,800 for a 24 × 36, with 2,400 × 3,000 for an 8 × 10. They come in different aspect ratios: 8 × 10 and 16 × 20 are 4:5, 18 × 24 is 3:4, 24 × 36 is 2:3, the A sizes share their own ratio, and 5 × 7 and 11 × 14 fit none of those exactly. Four master files, one per shape, cover all of those sizes with no more than 1.8% of the art trimmed.
In Podezzy's Etsy data, drawn from the daily marketplace snapshots its free tools run on (snapshot November 12, 2026, estimated sales over 30 days), size terms match far fewer listings than the general terms: 8,057 for "8x10 print" against 1,280,895 for "printable wall art". It cannot say which print size sells best, because a listing that offers several sizes counts under each size term it matches.
Standard art print sizes, with the pixels at 300 DPI
| Size | Centimeters | Pixels at 300 DPI | Megapixels | Shape |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 × 7 in | 12.7 × 17.8 | 1,500 × 2,100 | 3.2 | its own (1:1.40) |
| 8 × 10 in | 20.3 × 25.4 | 2,400 × 3,000 | 7.2 | 4:5 |
| 11 × 14 in | 27.9 × 35.6 | 3,300 × 4,200 | 13.9 | its own (1:1.27) |
| 12 × 16 in | 30.5 × 40.6 | 3,600 × 4,800 | 17.3 | 3:4 |
| 16 × 20 in | 40.6 × 50.8 | 4,800 × 6,000 | 28.8 | 4:5 |
| 18 × 24 in | 45.7 × 61 | 5,400 × 7,200 | 38.9 | 3:4 |
| 24 × 36 in | 61 × 91.4 | 7,200 × 10,800 | 77.8 | 2:3 |
| A5 (5.83 × 8.27 in) | 14.8 × 21 | 1,748 × 2,480 | 4.3 | A (1:1.414) |
| A4 (8.27 × 11.69 in) | 21 × 29.7 | 2,480 × 3,508 | 8.7 | A (1:1.414) |
| A3 (11.69 × 16.54 in) | 29.7 × 42 | 3,508 × 4,961 | 17.4 | A (1:1.414) |
| A2 (16.54 × 23.39 in) | 42 × 59.4 | 4,961 × 7,016 | 34.8 | A (1:1.414) |
| US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) | 21.6 × 27.9 | 2,550 × 3,300 | 8.4 | its own (1:1.29) |
Pixels and megapixels: Podezzy's Design Size Calculator, checked November 13, 2026, which multiplies inches by DPI and rounds to the nearest pixel. A sizes are entered in millimeters (A5 148 × 210, A4 210 × 297, A3 297 × 420, A2 420 × 594). The six inch sizes are the standard list in The Handmade Showroom's and Podbase's size guides. Podbase adds 4 × 6, 12 × 16 and the A sizes, and Printify's guide adds square sizes and 20 × 30.
The calculator labels 300 DPI as the setting for paper, posters included, and marks 150 DPI "fabric only". Its own poster presets show what that halving does to a large file: 18 × 24 drops from 5,400 × 7,200 pixels at 300 DPI to 2,700 × 3,600 at 150, and 24 × 36 from 7,200 × 10,800 to 3,600 × 5,400. The reasoning behind the two numbers, and why 300 is right for paper but not for shirts, is in DPI, bleed, and the 300 DPI myth.
For a size that is not in the table, type it into the free Design Size Calculator as "20 x 30 in at 300 dpi" or "50 x 70 cm at 300 dpi". It gives the pixels, the size in centimeters and the megapixels, and the "Poster" and "Poster, large" placements check whether your design fits an 18 × 24 or 24 × 36 sheet.
Four shapes: which sizes one file covers
A print's shape is its aspect ratio, the long side divided by the short side. Two sizes with the same ratio are the same picture at a different scale, so one file prints at both without losing anything. Some size guides describe the standard sizes as proportional to each other. Only some are, and they fall into four groups.
- 4:5 (1.25): 8 × 10 and 16 × 20, and also 24 × 30.
- 3:4 (1.33): 12 × 16 and 18 × 24, and also 6 × 8 and 9 × 12.
- 2:3 (1.5): 24 × 36, and also 4 × 6, 12 × 18 and 20 × 30.
- A sizes (1.414): A5, A4, A3 and A2. Each one is the next size down doubled, A4 at 210 × 297 mm and A3 at 297 × 420, so the shape never changes.
5 × 7, 11 × 14 and US Letter sit outside those groups. 5 × 7 has a ratio of 1.40, about 1% off the A shape, 11 × 14 is 1.27, close to 4:5, and US Letter is 1.29, which a 3:4 file fills with a 2.9% crop.
That leaves four master files to build. A 4:5 file covers 8 × 10, 16 × 20 and 11 × 14, a 3:4 file covers 12 × 16 and 18 × 24, a 2:3 file covers 24 × 36, and an A file covers A5 to A2 and 5 × 7. Build each at the pixels of the largest size it has to cover. As the Print File Checker puts it, enlarging a small image cannot add detail that was never captured. At 300 DPI that is 4,800 × 6,000 for the 4:5 file, 5,400 × 7,200 for 3:4, 7,200 × 10,800 for 2:3 and 4,961 × 7,016 for the A file, if A2 is the largest A size you offer.
How much art a wrong-shape file loses
When a print fills the paper, the part of the art that does not fit the new shape is trimmed. The share of the art that goes is set by the two ratios alone, so it is the same at every scale, and between the standard sizes it runs from 1.0% to 16.7%. The other choice is to fit the whole image and leave white bars on two sides.
| Your file | 5 × 7 | 8 × 10 | 11 × 14 | 16 × 20 | 18 × 24 | 24 × 36 | A4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:5 | 10.7% | 0 | 1.8% | 0 | 6.3% | 16.7% | 11.6% |
| 3:4 | 4.8% | 6.3% | 4.5% | 6.3% | 0 | 11.1% | 5.7% |
| 2:3 | 6.7% | 16.7% | 15.2% | 16.7% | 11.1% | 0 | 5.7% |
| A size | 1.0% | 11.6% | 10.0% | 11.6% | 5.7% | 5.7% | 0 |
Method: 1 minus the smaller ratio divided by the larger one, with ratios of 5/4 (4:5), 4/3 (3:4), 3/2 (2:3), the square root of 2, 1.414 (A) and 7/5 and 14/11 for 5 × 7 and 11 × 14.
In inches, a 4:5 file printed at 24 × 36 is scaled to 36 inches tall, which makes it 28.8 inches wide, and 4.8 inches of width are cut, 2.4 from each side. A 2:3 file at 8 × 10 is scaled to 8 inches wide and comes out 12 inches tall, so 2 inches go, one from the top and one from the bottom. At the small end, a 4:5 file printed at 11 × 14 comes out 11.2 inches wide and loses 0.2 of an inch, and an A file at 5 × 7 loses 0.07 of an inch of height. A 16.7% trim takes whatever sits near those edges, so if a design has to survive every size, keep its important parts toward the middle.
What Podezzy's Etsy data shows about print sizes
Podezzy's Etsy data cannot rank print sizes. It counts the estimated sales of the listings matched to a term over the previous 30 days (snapshot November 12, 2026), and it does not show which size a buyer picked inside a listing. Even the size term with the most listings, "a4 print", matched 14,597, against 1,280,895 for "printable wall art".
| Term | Est. sales of matched listings, 30 days | Listings | Shops |
|---|---|---|---|
| printable wall art | 64,826 | 1,280,895 | 102,870 |
| art print | 30,883 | 601,925 | 66,174 |
| poster print | 9,648 | 138,982 | 11,401 |
| 5x7 print | 360 | 4,082 | 998 |
| 8x10 print | 410 | 8,057 | 1,676 |
| 8x10 printable | 153 | 4,070 | 987 |
| 11x14 print | 91 | 3,023 | 603 |
| 12x16 print | 35 | 334 | 114 |
| 16x20 print | 56 | 2,092 | 374 |
| 18x24 print | 32 | 1,304 | 227 |
| 24x36 poster | 911 | 4,362 | 675 |
| a5 print | 462 | 4,923 | 1,128 |
| a4 print | 817 | 14,597 | 2,826 |
| a3 print | 597 | 7,508 | 1,271 |
Source: Podezzy's Etsy data, snapshot November 12, 2026, pulled November 13. Sales are estimates. General terms first, then inch sizes and A sizes, each from smallest to largest.
In most rows, some matched listings are not art prints. Printing services for the buyer's own file lead the metric terms and "poster print": the top three under "a4 print" (94 of 817 sales) and "a3 print" (105 of 597), five of the top ten under "a5 print" (93 of 462) and the top four under "poster print" (937 of 9,648). Under "24x36 poster", the only size row that uses "poster", printable Pokemon card display posters and a Canva poster template bundle account for 231 of its 911 sales. The best seller under "8x10 print" is a Halloween candy bowl sign, and five of the top ten under "8x10 printable" are event signs or a Canva template (34 of 153). Under "art print", five of the top ten are digital journal papers, calendars and a wooden sign (265 of 30,883), and the third under "5x7 print" is a wooden photo box. The two thinnest rows lean on one design each: "12x16 print" has 35 sales, 15 of them from two listings of one design, and "18x24 print" has 32, 14 of them from two listings of one design. Sizes also overlap: seven of the ten best sellers under "8x10 print" are the same seven listings, from one shop, that make up seven of the ten under "5x7 print", so a listing that offers several sizes can count toward each size term. Under "printable wall art", the three best sellers are wall art bundles with 35,000 and 150,000+ in their titles.
With rows this small and this mixed, one snapshot is a weak basis for choosing sizes, and one file per shape lets you offer all of them anyway. The Etsy keyword research tool gives the same sales, listing and shop estimates for any term you want to check, and shows the listings winning it, so you can see what the term actually matches.
Selling the sizes as a digital download
Etsy caps how many files a digital listing can hold and how large each one can be. Its help page on digital listings, read November 13, 2026, says:
You can upload up to five digital files. The maximum size for each file is 20MB.
The same page answers whether a digital item can have variations: "No, you can't offer variations for digital items." A buyer cannot choose 8 × 10 or A4 from a menu, so every size you sell has to be inside the files they download. File names are limited to "70 alphanumeric characters, periods, underscores, or hyphens", so leave out spaces and the × sign, and the supported types include .jpg, .png, .pdf and .zip. Etsy also states that digital items, like handmade ones, "must be made and/or designed by you, the seller." The rules are on Etsy's help page for digital listings.
The four shape files fit inside the five-file limit with one slot left, which can hold an 11 × 14 file if you want that size without the 1.8% crop. Name each file by the sizes it prints, such as art-8x10-16x20-11x14.jpg, since the name is what the buyer sees and Etsy cannot change it after upload.
A 2:3 master at 7,200 × 10,800 pixels holds 77.8 megapixels, and how many megabytes that takes depends on the artwork and the export settings, so check the exported file against the 20MB cap before you upload it. Drop the finished file into the Print File Checker with the largest size it is meant for, and it reports the true DPI at that size and the pixels 300 DPI would need.
For physical prints made by a print partner, the file has to match the sizes you list with that partner. The calculator's advice for posters is to build the artwork at its final size, such as 18 × 24 or 24 × 36 inches, and to check the exact size on your supplier's product page before you finish. If the partner trims prints to size, add bleed. Podezzy's DPI guide gives the convention for trimmed posters as 3 mm, an eighth of an inch, of artwork past the cut line, with a safe area the same distance inside it. With an eighth of an inch on every side, an 8 × 10 file becomes 8.25 × 10.25 inches, or 2,475 × 3,075 pixels at 300 DPI.
Art print sizes FAQ
What is the most common art print size?
Printify's guide names 8 × 10, 11 × 14 and 16 × 20 as the most popular sizes. Podezzy's Etsy data cannot confirm or rank them, because a listing that offers several sizes counts under each size term it matches.
How many pixels is an 8 × 10 print at 300 DPI?
2,400 × 3,000 pixels, or 7.2 megapixels. The same file prints a 16 × 20 at 150 DPI, which the Design Size Calculator marks as fabric only, so build a 4,800 × 6,000 file if you sell the 16 × 20 on paper.
Can I print an 8 × 10 file at 11 × 14?
Only with a crop and less resolution. Scaled to 14 inches tall, the 4:5 art is 11.2 inches wide, so 0.2 of an inch comes off the width, 1.8% of the art. A 2,400 × 3,000 pixel file prints at about 214 DPI at that size; for 300 DPI the 4:5 file needs 3,360 × 4,200 pixels.
What mat opening fits an 8 × 10 print?
Printify gives 7.5 × 9.5 inches, a little smaller than the print so the mat holds its edges.
How many files can an Etsy digital download have?
Up to five, each up to 20MB, according to Etsy's help page. Digital items cannot have variations, so every size you sell goes into those files.
What to do next
Before you export your next print, enter the largest size you will sell in the Design Size Calculator at 300 DPI, build the master file at those pixels, and make one file per shape.