Social media banners in the size the network actually uses
A LinkedIn banner is 1584 x 396 pixels. On a phone only the middle 1350 x 220 arrive, and the bottom left corner disappears behind your profile picture. Every network has its own version of that problem. This tool draws both boundaries onto the canvas while you work, so the logo does not end up under an avatar.
- 1Pick the network and the format
- 2Type your domain, correct what the tool got wrong
- 3Download the PNG
Free, with nothing behind it
No account, no email address, no watermark and no export that suddenly costs money. The file you download is the file you saw.
The measurements come from the platforms
1584 x 396 for LinkedIn, 851 x 315 for Facebook, 2560 x 1440 for YouTube with a safe area of 1546 x 423. Where a network publishes no safe area, the table says so.
Cleared for commercial use
Your own company or a client who hired you, both are fine. The picture is drawn in your browser and never reaches our server.
Drag the logo, the graphic and the three lines of text anywhere you like. Click one to select it, then set its size below. Clicking the empty area picks up the background photo.
Profile background 1584 x 396 A monitor shows the whole 4:1 strip. A phone keeps the middle 1350 x 220 pixels, and your profile picture covers the bottom left corner.
Upload the file and look at it once on your own phone. Networks change their crops.
TikTok
X (Twitter)
YouTube
What are the social media banner and cover sizes in 2026?
The upload size, and next to it the part you have to leave empty. Two things eat into a cover: the crop, because a phone shows a narrower section than a monitor, and the overlay, because the profile picture and the buttons of the app sit on top of the picture.
LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube publish their upload sizes. Facebook says nothing about safe areas for group and event covers, so those two rows carry our estimate and the tool marks it as such. Last checked .
| Network | Format | Size in pixels | Keep clear |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profile background | 1584 x 396 | Bottom left 568 x 264 px under the profile picture. Edges: 117 px left and right, 88 px top and bottom. | |
| Company page cover | 4200 x 700 | Bottom left under the page logo. A phone loses roughly 114 px on each side of the rendered width. | |
| Profile and page cover | 851 x 315 | Bottom left on a monitor, bottom centre on a phone. Around 90 px are cut from each side. | |
| Group cover | 1640 x 856 | The strip at the bottom carries the group name and the buttons. Safe area estimated. | |
| Event cover | 1920 x 1005 | Title and date sit over the lower edge. Safe area estimated. | |
| Story background | 1080 x 1920 | 250 px at the top, 250 px at the bottom, 65 px from every edge. | |
| Reel background | 1080 x 1920 | 220 px at the top, 420 px at the bottom, 200 px on the right for the buttons. | |
| TikTok | Video cover | 1080 x 1920 | 130 px at the top, 350 px at the bottom, 64 px on the left, 120 px on the right. |
| X (Twitter) | Header | 1500 x 500 | 60 px top and bottom, plus 220 x 220 px at the bottom left. |
| YouTube | Channel banner | 2560 x 1440 | Everything outside the middle 1546 x 423 px can disappear on a phone. |
Why is my cover photo cut off on a phone?
Two different things happen to a cover, and they need two different answers. The picture is cropped because a phone shows a narrower section than a monitor, and it is covered because the profile picture and the buttons of the app sit on top of it. A design that survives the first can still fail the second.
The crop
Every network renders one uploaded file at several sizes. LinkedIn keeps the middle 1350 x 220 of a 1584 x 396 banner on a phone. Facebook shows 820 x 312 on a monitor and 640 x 360 on a phone, so about 90 pixels vanish from each side. YouTube is the extreme case: of 2560 x 1440 only the central 1546 x 423 appear on every device.
What to do: Put text and logo inside the green frame. Everything outside is decoration you can afford to lose.
The overlay
Your profile picture sits on the cover, not next to it. On LinkedIn it covers roughly 568 x 264 pixels at the bottom left, on X about 220 x 220, on Facebook the bottom left on a monitor and the bottom centre on a phone. On a story or a reel it is the app itself: account name at the top, reply field at the bottom, the buttons down the right.
What to do: Leave the red areas empty. What lies there is not cropped, it is hidden behind something, and no export setting fixes that.
Which networks have a cover image at all?
Four of the six do. Instagram and TikTok have none, which is the single most common surprise on this topic, so both are answered here rather than buried in a footnote.
- Does LinkedIn have a cover image?
- Yes, two of them. A personal profile takes a background photo of 1584 x 396 pixels. A company page takes a cover image, and LinkedIn now asks for 4200 x 700 there, up from the older 1128 x 191. Both are set in the edit dialogue of the profile or the page.
- Does Facebook have a cover image?
- Yes, and three different ones. Profiles and pages share the same 851 x 315. Groups take 1640 x 856 and events 1920 x 1005. Only the first has a documented safe area; for the other two Facebook publishes the picture size and nothing else.
- Does Instagram have a cover image?
- No. Instagram gives you a round profile picture and a grid, and neither takes a wide banner. The surfaces you can genuinely fill with your own background are the story and the reel, both 1080 x 1920, both with controls sitting on top of the picture.
- Does TikTok have a profile banner?
- No. The banners you see on some profiles are three pinned videos whose covers were cut from one image, which is a workaround, not a feature. What you can set is the cover of a single video: 1080 x 1920, with the tabs at the top and the caption at the bottom sitting over it.
- Does X have a header image?
- Yes, 1500 x 500 pixels. Roughly 60 pixels at the top and bottom can be trimmed depending on the device, and the profile picture covers about 220 x 220 pixels at the bottom left. The usable band is the upper two thirds.
- Does YouTube have a channel banner?
- Yes, and it is the strictest case of them all. You upload 2560 x 1440, a television shows the whole thing, a monitor a strip across the full width, and a phone only the central 1546 x 423 pixels. Anything that has to be readable belongs inside that box.
What happens with your data
If you enter a domain, we open its start page once, read the logo and the colours and forget the request after 24 hours of caching. The picture itself never leaves your browser: it is drawn on a canvas element and saved from there. Uploads stay local too. There is no account, no tracking pixel and nothing to opt out of.
By using this tool you confirm that you are entitled to use the brand you enter.
Questions
- Video / Meet Background Generator: Free, nothing stored, cleared for commercial use
- Brand kit from a domain: Logo, colours and typeface in one request
Is it really free, or free until something asks for money?+
Free. No account, no email address, no watermark, no export that costs money at the last step. We built it because it shows what our production line does, and a tool that begs for a credit card would show the opposite.
Why does the tool want my website?+
To save you the twenty minutes of digging out your own logo and hex codes. It opens your start page, reads the logo, three colour roles and the typeface. You can skip it: upload a logo, set the colours by hand and the rest works the same.
If I only make one, which format should it be?+
The LinkedIn profile background at 1584 x 396. It is the one cover that a business contact reaches by looking you up rather than by following you, and it is the format where a wrong placement is most visible, because the profile picture eats the bottom left corner. Everything else can follow from the same colours and the same logo.
Why is the file a PNG and not a JPEG?+
Because a PNG keeps edges and text sharp, and a generated background is mostly edges and text. Every network here accepts PNG. If you hit an upload limit, open the file and save it as a JPEG at 85 to 90 percent quality; at these sizes that is a few hundred kilobytes and the difference is not visible.
What do the green and red markings mean?+
Green is the area that arrives on every device. Red is covered: by your profile picture, by the page logo or by the buttons of the app. Text inside a red area is not cropped, it is hidden behind something. Both markings are editing aids and never end up in the PNG.
Other guides give different numbers. Which one is right?+
The upload sizes are not in dispute: they come from the networks. The disagreement is about safe areas, because apps change their layout and few networks publish exact boxes. Where a value is our estimate, the table says so. If you need certainty, upload the file and look at it on your own phone.
Do you keep the picture?+
No. The picture is drawn in your browser on a canvas element and saved from there. It is never uploaded. What we do see is the domain you enter, because we have to open that page to read it, and that request is cached for 24 hours.
Can I use the result commercially?+
Yes. Company profiles, client accounts, campaigns, paid ads. You do not have to name us and there is no licence to buy. The one thing we cannot grant is the right to a brand that is not yours: if you enter a domain, make sure you may use that logo.
Ten formats here, a few thousand in production
Reading a source, deciding what matters and producing a finished file is the same chain we run for brochures on demand and for catalogues built out of Word files. This tool is that chain, cut down to one picture.