Start from a file that's already right. Real PDF dielines with bleed, trim and safe margins drawn — plus hem and grommet zones on banners and safe-title zones on menu boards. No signup, no email wall.
Every digital menu board template here is free and correctly sized. Download it, design in it, delete the guide layers, send it back. Two minutes of setup you never have to think about again.
Three lines,
and what each one means.
Every template in this library draws the same three guides, in the same three colours, so once you learn them you can open any file here and know exactly where you stand:
- Magenta dashed — the bleed edge. The media size. Push background art all the way out to this line so a slight cutting drift never leaves a white sliver at the edge. On banners this line is the hem fold instead.
- Cyan solid — the trim. The finished size, and the size you actually ordered. Anything past this gets cut off.
- Amber dashed — the safe margin. Keep type, logos and anything you'd be upset to lose inside this. It also accounts for frame lips on A-frames and for the hem on banners.
Delete the guide layers before you send the file. They're drawn as real objects, not as a locked template layer, precisely so they work in any application — which also means they will print if you leave them in. Preflight will catch it, but you'll save a round trip.
Screens, rigid signs
and banners.
Grouped by what the file becomes. All nine are draft dielines — real, openable PDFs at industry-standard trade sizes, pending a production check against this shop's own finishing. See the note at the bottom.
Screens — digital menu boards
What the landscape template becomes · header band, item column, price column — the zones are drawn in the file
5% action-safe + 10% title-safe drawn
header / items / prices zones
for turned screens & window displays
same zone structure, stacked
Rigid — posters, yard signs, A-frames
100 ppi at final size
lower 2″ kept clear for stake legs
0.125″ bleed · corrugated
same stake clearance
0.125″ bleed · 1.25″ safe margin
double-sided: supply two pages
Banners — hemmed and grommeted
Banner templates work differently from rigid ones: there's no bleed and no trim. Build to the outer edge, and the magenta line shows where the 1″ hem folds back. Grommet centres are marked on the hem — those punch through your artwork, so keep logos and type away from a marker.
What the banner template becomes · the grommets you see punching in are the ones marked in the file
100 ppi at final size
build to the outer edge
80 ppi at final size
80 ppi at final size
the long roadside shape
Template questions.
Free, and no. The files download directly from this page with no form, no signup and no email wall. Use them for a job you send us, use them for a job you send somewhere else, or use them to work out what size you need. They cost us nothing and they save both of us a revision cycle.
1920 × 1080 pixels for a standard landscape screen, and 1080 × 1920 for a screen turned portrait. Build in RGB, not CMYK — it is a screen, not a print. Keep important content inside the 10% title-safe margin drawn in the template, because televisions vary in how much of the edge they actually show, and a wall mount can hide a little more.
No. Banners are hemmed rather than trimmed, so you build artwork right to the outer edge of the template and the 1″ hem folds back over the magenta line. Rigid signs and posters are the opposite: they need 0.125″ of bleed because they get cut, and a slight drift in the cut would otherwise leave a white edge.
They are standard PDFs, so Illustrator, Affinity, InDesign and Acrobat open them natively with the guides as editable objects. Photoshop will rasterise them — set your own resolution on import, and check the prep guide for what that should be at your final size. Canva does not import PDF as an editable template, so for Canva use the pixel dimensions listed on the card and set the canvas manually.
So they work in every application rather than only the one they were made in. The trade-off is that you have to delete them before sending artwork, or they will print. Preflight catches it, but it costs a round trip.
Prep guide
Resolution at viewing distance, bleed, colour mode and the formats we take.
Digital menu boards
What to put in the template once you've opened it.
Large format printing
Banners, posters and vinyl — the machine behind the dielines.
Upload artwork
Send the finished file and approve a proof.