Layouts & artboards

Aspect ratios, grids, safe zones, and responsive scene scaling.

Updated May 18, 2026·4 min read

Pick the right aspect ratio

Pick by the physical orientation of the screen, not your monitor. Get it wrong and you will spend hours rescaling text.

16:9 — wall-mounted landscape TVs. Most QSR menu boards.
9:16 — portrait doorway screens, narrow vertical displays.
4:3 — older displays, kiosk screens.
Custom — for ultrawide menus (e.g. 32:9), set the exact pixel dimensions.

Snap-to-grid

Studio defaults to a 12-column grid. Drag a widget and it snaps to column boundaries. Hold Alt to override and place freely.

Safe zones

Some TVs overscan — they clip the outermost 3% of pixels. Studio shows a dashed safe-zone overlay (toggle with G). Keep critical text inside it.

Watch overscan on consumer TVs

Fire TV sticks and consumer Samsungs almost always overscan unless you change the TV's aspect setting to "Screen fit" or "1:1". Leave a 3% margin in your layout and the issue stops mattering.

Responsive scaling

Scenes designed at 1920×1080 scale linearly to 4K screens. There is no separate "mobile" or "tablet" layout — menu boards run at their target resolution and font sizes scale proportionally.