How to Create & Upload Your Own Stickers on Discord

Discord stickers function like oversized emojis, adding emphasis and personality to messages. Users can access server stickers plus 300 Discord-created stickers, while Nitro members can use stickers from their servers anywhere. Creating custom stickers requires server permissions, exact file specifications, and enough sticker slots, which can be expanded through Server Boosting.

Using Stickers on Discord

• Open the sticker menu from the chat bar by selecting the peeling-square icon.
• Stickers are available from:
  • Servers you belong to
  • Discord’s library of 300 stickers usable anywhere, including DMs
• Click a sticker to send it immediately.
• Hold Shift while clicking to attach the sticker to a message in progress.
• Server stickers can be used within that server.
• Nitro members can use their servers’ stickers in other servers, DMs, and group DMs.

Uploading Custom Stickers

• Custom stickers belong to Discord servers.
• Uploaders must either:
  • Own the server, or
  • Have the Manage Expressions permission
• Upload stickers through Server Settings > Stickers.
• Required specifications:
  • Exactly 320 × 320 pixels
  • PNG for static stickers
  • APNG or GIF for animated stickers
  • Maximum file size of 512 KB
• Each sticker requires an associated emoji to improve suggestions and searchability.
• An optional text description can improve accessibility for screen-reader users.

Sticker Limits and Server Boosting

• Servers begin with five sticker slots.
• Boosting can increase the total capacity to 5, 15, 30, or 60 stickers, depending on the server’s boost level.
• Nitro includes two boosts that can provide ten additional slots when applied to an unboosted server.
• If a server loses boosts and drops to a lower tier:
  • Stickers beyond the new limit become unavailable.
  • Administrators can restore boosts or remove stickers to meet the reduced limit.

Creating Sticker Images

• Any image can become a sticker if it meets Discord’s technical requirements and Community Guidelines.
• Basic cropping can be done with built-in tools such as Microsoft Paint or macOS Preview.
• Discord apps such as Picsart can automatically remove image backgrounds.
• Mobile users need an editing app capable of exporting images at exactly 320 × 320 pixels.

To create a sticker, prepare an appropriately sized image, upload it through the server’s Stickers settings, associate an emoji, and add an accessibility description when useful.