Designing your own button

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Specification for designing: 1" • 1.25" • 1.5" • 1.75" •  2.25" • 3" and 2" square Buttons
If you’d like to have us use artwork you have, or will produce, please read the following
information carefully. By doing so, you will learn how to properly set-up and size your artwork.

Accepted File Formats:
Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Microsoft Publisher 2003, Adobe PhotoShop,
Adobe Indesign, Adobe Acrobat

Sending Clip-art, Logos, or Photos:
If you have clip-art, a logo, or photo you would like us to use, please send it via email,
as a high-resolution file preferably at 300 dpi or better.

Click here to email graphics and finished Artwork: Click Here to Submit your Artwork

Set-up Dimensions for Artwork

1" Button Specifications
image area = .875"      background color = 1.20"     cut line = 1.313"

1.25" Button Specifications
image area = 1.156"      background color = 1.525"     cut line = 1.625"

1.50" Button Specifications
image area = 1.375"      background color = 1.635"     cut line = 1.812"

1.75" Button Specifications
image area = 1.50"      background color = 1.875"     cut line = 2.063"

2" Square Button Specifications
image area = 1.75"      background color = 2.40"     cut line = 2.717"

2.25" Button Specifications
image area = 2.063"      background color = 2.45"     cut line = 2.625"

3" Button Specifications
image area = 2.875"      background color = 3.25"      cut line = 3.435"

Properly Sizing Your Artwork - For specifics on how to properly size the artwork for your button, please look at the table above and find the button size you wish to have made. Underneath each button size you will see three dimensions... image area, background color, and cut line. Below you will find a description of what these terms mean.

Image Area - sometimes called the "live area", this is the area in which text and graphics need to be contained. Doing so will keep your text and graphic images from getting too close to the edge of your button and possibly going over the side.

Background Color - If you’d like your button to have a colored background or a bleed, as it is sometimes called, use this figure to properly size the background color.

Cut Line - We use the cut line to accurately cut your artwork. It helps us to make certain that your artwork is properly centered on your button. We prefer the cut line to be a 1 point black line.

Button templates • Button help • Button Specifications • Designing buttons