: Social media icons size for business card I'm designing a business card for a client, and for the first time I'm going to use social media icons, such as Facebook/Instagram etc. I've been going

@Shanna688

Since you already did tag this question 'indesign' we can all assume you are actually doing this in InDesign and not Photoshop. In which case forget about pixels and dpi and forget about the Instagram guidelines.

Just create a new document in InDesign, make it 9x5cm (most likely) or whatever size you want for your card, then download Font Awesome which already has 'vector' icons built in for social media websites. Type in the icons for Facebook/etc via the glyphs panel and make these any size you want so they work with your design.

Export to PDF when its done and don't overthink it.

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@Samaraweera207

First things first, you have to work with a document with the resolution of 300ppi.

Here’s an example of a business card of 9x5cm on Photoshop:



Here you can see the Instagram icon with 52x52 pixels, following the guidelines:



The professional print standard is 300ppi. This is used by professional photographers and any time a photo is printed in a magazine or other print publication.

DPI and PPI are used interchangeably a lot of the time, but are not the same thing. For example, you can print an image on your 300dpi printer at 72ppi, 100ppi, or 300ppi. Changing the ppi affects the size of the printed photograph. You can't change the DPI, since this is set for whatever printer you are using.

So probably you are not working with the resolution of 300 pixels per inch.

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