# Vision screen and component sizing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-screen-and-component-sizing/102007>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [February 6, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-screen-and-component-sizing/102007 "2025-02-06T21:01:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-screen-and-component-sizing/102007/1 "2025-02-06T21:01:15Z")

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Hi,

If I don't know what size monitor will be used with my Vision HMI, or if it'll be used with various sizes, how should I design for that to ensure automatic resizing, maintaining ratios, etc? Any specific settings I should look for?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-screen-and-component-sizing/102007/2 "2025-02-06T21:14:45Z")

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Scaling works best when you design for the smallest screen, so scaling is like zooming IN.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-screen-and-component-sizing/102007/3 "2025-02-06T23:17:21Z")

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In Vision, anchored layouts and judicious use of grouping is your bread and butter.

Give up, before you've even begun, on any concept of a pixel perfect ratio or trying to set your window resolution to "1920x1080, but minus the window decorations and minus the default titlebar height" or any such things.  
It's inevitably fragile and frustration inducing, when the _far_ easier thing to do is pick a sane **minimum** size, at a reasonable aspect ratio, and using scaling and anchoring let things stretch _out_ "gracefully".