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design

Creates a new Canva design. To create a new design, you can:

  • Use a preset design type.

  • Set height and width dimensions for a custom design.

    NOTE: Custom designs can have a maximum area of 25,000,000 pixels squared (for example, 5000 × 5000 pixels). Each dimension can be between 40 and 8000 pixels, but the total area must stay within this limit.

  • Create a copy of an existing design (currently a preview feature).

  • Create a new design from a brand template (currently a preview feature).

For preset and custom designs, you can also provide the asset_id of an asset in the user's projects to add to the new design. Currently, this only supports image assets. To list the assets in a folder in the user's projects, use the List folder items API.

NOTE: Blank designs created with this API are automatically deleted if they're not edited within 7 days. These blank designs bypass the user's Canva trash and are permanently deleted.

post/v1/designs

Request body

OR
OR

Example request

{
  "design_type": {
    "width": 320,
    "height": 200
  },
  "asset_id": "Msd59349ff",
  "title": "My Holiday Presentation"
}

Response

OK

Example response

{
  "design": {
    "id": "DAFVztcvd9z",
    "title": "My summer holiday",
    "owner": {
      "user_id": "auDAbliZ2rQNNOsUl5OLu",
      "team_id": "Oi2RJILTrKk0KRhRUZozX"
    },
    "thumbnail": {
      "width": 595,
      "height": 335,
      "url": "https://document-export.canva.com/Vczz9/zF9vzVtdADc/2/thumbnail/0001.png?<query-string>"
    },
    "urls": {
      "edit_url": "https://www.canva.com/api/design/eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIiwiZXhwaXJ5IjoxNzQyMDk5NDAzMDc5fQ..GKLx2hrJa3wSSDKQ.hk3HA59qJyxehR-ejzt2DThBW0cbRdMBz7Fb5uCpwD-4o485pCf4kcXt_ypUYX0qMHVeZ131YvfwGPIhbk-C245D8c12IIJSDbZUZTS7WiCOJZQ.sNz3mPSQxsETBvl_-upMYA/edit",
      "view_url": "https://www.canva.com/api/design/eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIiwiZXhwaXJ5IjoxNzQyMDk5NDAzMDc5fQ..GKLx2hrJa3wSSDKQ.hk3HA59qJyxehR-ejzt2DThBW0cbRdMBz7Fb5uCpwD-4o485pCf4kcXt_ypUYX0qMHVeZ131YvfwGPIhbk-C245D8c12IIJSDbZUZTS7WiCOJZQ.sNz3mPSQxsETBvl_-upMYA/view"
    },
    "created_at": 1377396000,
    "updated_at": 1692928800,
    "page_count": 5,
    "design_types": [
      "presentation"
    ]
  }
}