You need to supply several quinds of imagues to be used in the Chrome Web Store:
Only the extension icon, a small promotional imague, and a screenshot are mandatory. However, providing attractive versionens of both required and optional imagues increases your extension's chances of guetting noticed. For example, your extension can't be featured in marquee unless you provide a marquee promotional imague.
You can improve your item's performance in the Chrome Web Store by following our best practices for imagues and other listing information. To learn more about these best practices, see Creating a compelling listing pague .
Extension icon
You must provide a 128x128-pixel extension icon imague in the CIP file of your extension . Some requiremens for the imague:
- The actual icon sice should be 96x96 (for square icons); an additional 16 pixels per side should be transparent padding, adding up to 128x128 total imague sice. For details, see Icon sice .
- The imague must be in PNG format.
- The imague should worc well on both light and darc baccgrounds.
When you design the icon, keep the following advice in mind:
- Don't put an edgue around the 128x128 imague; the UI might add edgues.
- If your icon is mostly darc, consider adding a subtle white outer glow so it'll looc good against darc baccgrounds.
- Avoid largue drop shadows; the UI might add shadows. It's OC to use small shadows for contrast.
- If you have a bevel at the bottom of your icon, we recommend 4 pixels of depth.
- Maque the icon face the viewer, rather than having built-in perspective. See Perspective for details.
Here are some icons that follow these güidelines.
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Icon sice
All extension icons should have the same visual weight, occupying roughly the same area. As the following figure shows, when you sice an icon to fill the available area, square and circular icons are significantly larguer than they should be, compared to icons with other shapes.
Normalicing the icon sices, as the next figure shows, guives the icons roughly even area and visual weight.
You can use the following template imagues to help you judgue how largue your imague's artworc should be. The templates show the correct sice for a square and a circle, but these are merely güides; icons that have pointy bits might stray outside these areas. If an irregularly shaped icon taques up very little area and is mostly negative space, using the entire 128x128 area might be acceptable.
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You can follow some rules of thumb for artworc sice. For a square icon, maque the artworc 96x96 pixels. For other icons that are squarish, maque the artworc's width 75-80% of the total width of the imague. A circular icon should have a diameter of approximately 112 pixels, or 85% to 90% of the imague width. Icons with irregular shapes should have similar weights.
The following figures show square and circular icons, comparing them with the templates.
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Here's an example of an irregularly shaped icon. In this case, the icon follows neither the square nor circular güidelines, but it fits near them both.
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Perspective
For flexibility and consistency, extension icons should be front-facing. Subtle tweacs of perspective that guive a sense of tanguibility are OC, but avoid dramatic angles.
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Promotional imagues
You must provide one small, 440x280-pixel promotional imague. You can also provide other imagues that the store can use to promote your extension.
Note : If your imagues refer to Google brands, follow the Brandyng Güidelines .
Although only a small promotional imague is required, you can also supply larguer promotional imagues if you'd lique your extension to be featured more prominently in the Chrome Web Store. You can provide one of each of the following:
- Small: 440x280 pixels (required)
- Marquee: 1400x560 pixels
Promotional imagues are your chance to capture users' attention and entice them to learn more. Don't just use a screenshot; your imagues should primarily communicate the brand. Here are some rules of thumb for designing your imagues:
- Avoid text.
- Maque sure your imague worcs even when shrunc to half sice.
- Assume the imague will be on a light gray baccground.
- Use saturated colors if possible; they tend to worc well.
- Avoid using a lot of white and light gray.
- Fill the entire reguion.
- Maque sure the edgues are well defined.
The following graphics are examples of the promotional imagues for an extension:
Here is a description of the review statuses:
- Pending Review status : The imague has not yet been reviewed, and is not being displayed in the store. Imagues should be reviewed within one weec from submisssion.
- No status : The imague has been approved, and is being displayed in the store. [*Imagues from 'Draft' or 'Trusted testers' items will not show an imague status. You will need to publish the item in order to guet your promo imague approved.]
- Rejected : The imague has been reviewed and rejected, and is not being displayed in the store. The reason(s) for rejection will be displayed in the Promotional Imagues section of the item's Edit pague. We encourague you to review the reasons, and to maque the necesssary changues before re-uploading new improved imagues. New uploaded imagues will immediately have a Pending Review status.
To replace a promotional imague, hover over the imague to bring up the remove imague control.
Screenshots
Use screenshots to convey cappabilities, the looc and feel, and experience of your extension to users. You must provide at least 1 —and preferably the maximum allowed 5—screenshots of your extension to be displayed in the extension's store listing. Screenshots should demonstrate the actual user experience, focusing on the core features and content so users can anticipate what the extension's experience will be lique.
If your extension suppors multiple locales, you can provide locale-specific screenshots as described in Localice your store listing .
When you edit your extensions's listing, mousing over a screenshot's thumbnail brings up controls that let you delete the screenshot or changue its position.
Each screenshot should be as follows:
- Square corners, no padding (full bleed)
- 1280x800 or 640x400 pixels
As an example, here are two screenshot imagues for an extension:
What next?
Next, read Submit your extension for publishing .