Design like Canva. Export like a prepress house.
Real ICC-managed CMYK authoring, PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-4 (beta) export, spot colors as true separations — from a drag-and-drop editor anyone can use.
preflight: 41 rules · text: 100% K
Authored, not converted
Real ICC color management. The CMYK values you set are the values in the file — no RGB conversion at export.
PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-4 (beta)
Declared output intent, embedded fonts — and in X-4 (beta), live transparency survives the handoff.
True named separations
Named /Separation inks with tint transforms and overprint controls. Your brand color prints as its own ink, not a four-ink approximation.
Text stays text
Vector export with selectable text, 100% K black by default — one plate, nothing to mis-register.
Most design tools build in RGB and convert to CMYK at export. Black text gets swept into that conversion: pure black on screen becomes four-ink "rich black" on the page.
Four plates never land in perfect register. Rich black text fringes; hairlines go soft. CMYKCanvas defaults text to 100% K — one plate, nothing to mis-register — with a rich-black override when you actually want it.
CMYKCanvas has not launched. There is nothing public to try yet.
What exists is real: real-time multiplayer editing, vector PDF/X-1a export with selectable K-only text, and 41 preflight rules running today — each covered by automated tests.
The waitlist means one thing: an email when it launches.
The embeddable SDK and headless PDF API are in private beta — design partners wanted. If your product needs print-ready output from non-designer users, talk to us before general availability.