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Design Editor

A simple graphic design editor.

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What is Design Editor?

Design Editor is a free online design tool for making quick graphics — social posts, banners, and thumbnails — in your browser. Pick a canvas size and background color, add text layers, position them with simple sliders, and export the finished design as a PNG.

Key features

  • Canvas presets: square, landscape, or 800×600
  • Solid background color of your choice
  • Multiple text layers with editable content
  • Per-layer position, size, and color sliders
  • One-click PNG export

How to use the design editor

When you need a social post, a link-preview banner, or a video thumbnail and don't want to open a heavy design app, this editor gets you to a finished PNG in a couple of minutes. You pick a canvas, drop a solid background behind it, stack text and image layers on top, nudge them into place with sliders, and export. It all runs in your browser — nothing about your design is uploaded.

Pick a canvas that matches where it's going

The three presets aren't arbitrary — each maps to a real slot:

  • 1080 × 1080 — a square, the native size for an Instagram feed post.
  • 1200 × 630 — the standard Open Graph / social share image, the size Facebook, LinkedIn, and X use when your link is pasted into a post.
  • 800 × 600 — a plain 4:3 rectangle for a slide, a blog header, or a quick thumbnail.

Start from the right size and you avoid awkward cropping later. Then set a background color with the color picker; it fills the whole canvas as a solid base.

Layers: text and images

Add as many layers as you like, and each stacks on top of the ones before it.

  • Text layers take multi-line content (press Enter for a second line), a font from the family list, a color, and a size from 12 up to 240 px. Text is drawn bold and centered on its anchor point.
  • Image layers let you drop in a logo or photo, scaled from 5% to 150% of the canvas width, with an opacity slider from 0 to 100% — handy for a faint watermark or a background photo you want text to sit over.

Every layer has X and Y position sliders that run 0–100% across the canvas. They snap to the center as you drag past the middle, so getting something perfectly centered is easy — just slide until it clicks to 50. To restack, delete a layer with the ✕ and re-add it; layers render in the order they appear in the panel.

How to build a clean graphic

  1. Set the canvas and background first, before adding content, so you're composing against the final proportions.
  2. Add your text. For a headline-over-color look, one large text layer centered at 50/50 is often all you need. Add a second, smaller layer for a subtitle and drop its Y to around 60.
  3. Layer in an image if you want a logo or photo, then use opacity to push it back behind the text.
  4. Export PNG to download the result as design.png.

Tips and limits

  • Contrast is everything at a glance. Light text on a dark background (or vice versa) reads far better in a crowded feed than mid-tone on mid-tone. The default is white text on indigo for exactly this reason.
  • Watch text against images. There's no automatic outline or shadow behind text, so over a busy photo a caption can vanish. Darken the image with a low-opacity black image layer, or keep text over the solid background area.
  • It's deliberately minimal. There are no gradients, shapes, or curved-corner boxes — just background, text, and images. For a caption straight onto an existing photo, Text Overlay is quicker; for a full app-icon set, use the App Icon Generator. Everything here renders on your device's canvas and the export never leaves your browser.

Frequently asked questions

What canvas sizes can I choose?
Three presets: 1080x1080 for an Instagram square feed post, 1200x630 for the standard Open Graph / social share image links use on Facebook, LinkedIn, and X, and 800x600 for a plain 4:3 rectangle. Pick the one matching where the graphic will be posted so you avoid cropping later.
Can I add images and logos, or only text?
Both. You can stack text layers (multi-line, with a font, color, and size from 12 to 240 px) and image layers, which scale from 5% to 150% of the canvas width and have an opacity slider from 0 to 100% for a faint watermark or a background photo behind text.
How do I center a layer exactly?
The X and Y position sliders run 0 to 100% and snap to the center as you drag past the middle, so sliding until it clicks to 50 centers the layer perfectly. Text is also drawn centered on its anchor point.
How do I reorder or restack layers?
Layers render in the order they appear in the panel, and there is no drag-to-reorder. To move a layer higher in the stack, delete it with the x button and re-add it, since new layers are placed on top.
Why does my text disappear over a photo?
There is no automatic outline or shadow behind text, so a caption over a busy image can blend in. Add a low-opacity black image layer to darken the photo, or keep text over the solid background area. The final export is a PNG (design.png) rendered locally in your browser.

Privacy

Every layer you add and the final PNG export are rendered locally in your browser; nothing about your design is sent to a server.