Format profile / A5
A5
148 × 210 mm · 5.83 × 8.27 in
Width
148 mm
Height
210 mm
Area
311 cm²
Finished-size ledger
Pixel canvas by resolution
rounded to whole pixelsBleed and safe-area canvases
confirm with your printer3 mm on every edge
154 × 216 mm
Artwork canvas with bleed. Keep essential content inside roughly 142 × 204 mm if the same distance is also used as a simple safety margin.
5 mm on every edge
158 × 220 mm
Artwork canvas with bleed. Keep essential content inside roughly 138 × 200 mm if the same distance is also used as a simple safety margin.
Closest standard formats
both edges comparedWhere A5 fits
4 common usesNext in the ISO A drawer
larger / smallerSet up A5 artwork without guessing
Start the document at the finished size—148 × 210 mm—and add the bleed your printer specifies outside that edge. A common 3 mm bleed produces a 154 × 216 mm artwork canvas. Keep type, logos, folds, and other critical details inside the trim line; a safety margin is not the same thing as bleed.
Pixel dimensions only become meaningful when paired with a resolution. At 300 DPI, this format is 1,749 × 2,481 pixels. Changing that number in an export dialog without resampling does not add image detail—it only changes the declared physical scale.
A5 belongs to ISO A Series. Its proportion is 1:1.414 (√2); the √2 family is designed so a half-sheet keeps the same shape, which makes layouts easier to scale between related formats.