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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.

An asset provided this way is placed in the design as a single flat image, which the user can move, resize, or replace, but not edit as separate elements. If you want the elements of an image to become separate editable layers in the design, use the Create image-to-design import job API instead.

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

  • Base URL: https://api.canva.com/rest
  • URL: https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs
  • Auth: OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL https://www.canva.com/api/oauth/authorize, token URL https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/oauth/token, scopes: design:content:write)

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"
    ]
  }
}

Changes

  • 40ca7f6a753bRevision changes
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      added the new user_linked_to_another_idp enum value to the response property for the response status

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      added the new user_linked_to_another_idp enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new user_linked_to_another_idp enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new user_linked_to_another_idp enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new user_linked_to_another_idp enum value to the response property for the response status

  • 5ea5a3f48e72Revision changes
    • warning

      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status

    • warning

      added the new asset_not_ready enum value to the response property for the response status