Format profile / B5
B5
176 × 250 mm · 6.93 × 9.84 in
Width
176 mm
Height
250 mm
Area
440 cm²
Finished-size ledger
Pixel canvas by resolution
rounded to whole pixelsBleed and safe-area canvases
confirm with your printer3 mm on every edge
182 × 256 mm
Artwork canvas with bleed. Keep essential content inside roughly 170 × 244 mm if the same distance is also used as a simple safety margin.
5 mm on every edge
186 × 260 mm
Artwork canvas with bleed. Keep essential content inside roughly 166 × 240 mm if the same distance is also used as a simple safety margin.
Closest standard formats
both edges comparedWhere B5 fits
3 common usesNext in the ISO B drawer
larger / smallerSet up B5 artwork without guessing
Start the document at the finished size—176 × 250 mm—and add the bleed your printer specifies outside that edge. A common 3 mm bleed produces a 182 × 256 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 2,079 × 2,952 pixels. Changing that number in an export dialog without resampling does not add image detail—it only changes the declared physical scale.
B5 belongs to ISO B 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.