Bleed & Crop Marks

Bleed extends your artwork past the trim edge so commercial cutters can leave a clean, full-bleed finish. Crop marks are optional trim hairlines outside the artwork. Both are configured on the Create tab under Bleed & Crop Marks.

Create a page with bleed and crop marks

1. Stay on the Create tab (New subtab) and pick a preset (or custom size).
2. Toggle Bleed & Crop Marks on. Print for Figma fills the common commercial default for your unit:
   • 0.125 in when the document unit is imperial
   • 3 mm when the document unit is metric
3. Leave Bleed Mode on Expand unless you need Contain (covered below).
4. Optionally set Crop Marks to Enabled if your printer asks for trim marks.
5. Click Create. The frame gets red layout guides for the bleed (and an outer crop-mark gutter when marks are on).

Change the bleed size

1. Open Bleed & Crop Marks (or leave it open after enabling).
2. Edit Top, Bottom, Left, or Right. With the chain link on, one value applies to every side — unlink for asymmetric bleed.
3. Click Create when you are ready to generate (or recreate) the page.

Change bleed mode

1. Open Bleed & Crop Marks.
2. Open the Bleed Mode dropdown and choose Expand or Contain.
3. Click Create when you are ready to generate the frame.

• Expand is the industry default: bleed is added outside your target layout size. The design area stays true to the preset; the Figma frame grows to hold the bleed (and crop-mark gutter, if enabled). Use this for commercial print whenever the press can run a larger sheet.
• Contain takes bleed from inside your target dimensions. The outer frame stays locked to the size you entered, so the usable trim area shrinks. Use this mainly for home / desktop printing, or when the paper size is fixed and you cannot get larger stock.

Change crop mark settings

Crop marks are hairlines outside the artwork that show where to cut. Many web-to-print workflows prefer PDFs without visible marks — only enable them when your vendor asks.

1. Set Crop Marks to Enabled. Weight, Offset, and Length appear with defaults.
2. Adjust each field as needed — Weight (stroke in pt), Offset (gap from trim / crop gutter), Length (mark line length).
3. Click Create when you are ready. Print for Figma keeps marks in an outer gutter (based on Offset) so they never sit in the printable bleed area.

Show and hide bleed guides

Bleed (and crop) guides are Figma layout guides — design aids only, ignored on PDF export.

1. Select the print frame on the canvas.
2. Press ⇧G/Shift+G to toggle layout guides on or off.