LinkedIn banner size

Every LinkedIn banner size, in pixels

LinkedIn has the most extreme headers of any network here. Both of these are strips rather than pictures, and they are far enough apart that a single file cannot serve them both.

• Personal profile banner: 1584x396px, a ratio of 4:1. The strip behind your name at the top of your own profile.
• Company page cover: 1512x256px, a ratio of 5.91:1. Shallower and wider again, across the top of a company page.
• Profile photo: 400x400px, a ratio of 1:1. Overlaps the lower left of the personal banner on every layout.
• A personal banner is four times as wide as it is tall. A photograph cropped into that keeps a horizontal band out of its middle and loses the sky and the ground with it.
• The company cover is close to six times as wide as it is tall, which is a wordmark, a texture, and very little else.
• Your profile photo sits over the lower left of the personal banner, so anything placed there ends up behind your own face.
• Banners are accepted up to 6 MB, which is generous enough at this shape that file size is rarely the thing that forces a compromise.

Check a file you already have against the LinkedIn banner size

People almost always arrive at a banner holding a photograph they already like, and the real question is whether a band out of its middle is worth looking at. The check gives you the exact share of the height that goes.

1. 1Pick the target first. This page carries 3 LinkedIn banner sizes, and a verdict only means something against one of them.
2. 2Choose your image. It is opened by this browser tab and measured on a canvas, so the file never leaves the machine you are sitting at and there is no queue or upload to wait for.
3. 3Read the result: an exact match at 1584x396, the same 4:1 shape at a different scale, or a crop with the axis that loses pixels named.
4. 4If it is wrong, open the LinkedIn resizer linked underneath. It exports to these exact numbers instead of leaving the decision to the platform.
5. 5Before you commit, look at that same picture cropped to the strip. If what made you like it sits above or below the band, the honest answer is a different picture.

What LinkedIn does when the shape is wrong

LinkedIn scales an odd-shaped banner to the width of the strip and keeps the middle of its height, so the failure is not an error message but a portrait photograph reduced to a band of shirt.

• A portrait or square photograph loses almost all of its height, because filling a strip that wide from a tall source throws away everything above and below the centre.
• Type set for a full-size design shrinks with the image as it is scaled into the strip, and ends up at a size nobody reads on a phone.
• A file narrower than the banner is upscaled, and a soft header directly under a sharp profile photo is the most noticeable place on the page to put one.

What actually belongs in a LinkedIn banner

The banner is the one part of a profile you fully control, and it is seen by people deciding whether to answer you. That makes it worth more than a stock photograph of a skyline, and the binding constraint is space rather than pixels.

• One line: what you do and who for. That reads at the size the strip is drawn, and a paragraph does not.
• Keep the left third clear on a personal banner, because your photo, your name and your headline all land there.
• Flat colour with type on the right is easier to read and easier to keep current than a photograph, and it never fights the picture in front of it.