LinkedIn post image size

Every LinkedIn post image size, in pixels

LinkedIn draws a feed image at the width of a fairly narrow column, so the shape decides how much of a scrolling screen you occupy and the pixel count only decides how sharp it is once it gets there.

• Landscape post image: 1200x627px, a ratio of 1.91:1. The classic feed image, and the shape LinkedIn also reads for a link preview.
• Square post image: 1200x1200px, a ratio of 1:1. Takes more column height than the landscape one for the same scroll.
• Portrait post image: 1200x1500px, a ratio of 4:5. The tallest shape the feed shows without trimming it.
• The landscape shape is the same one LinkedIn reads for a shared link preview card, so a single export can cover both jobs.
• The desktop feed column is a little over five hundred pixels wide, which is why these uploads are roughly twice that: you are feeding a retina screen, not a wide one.
• The portrait shape takes the most column height of the three, which is the argument for it, and it is also the one that sits least comfortably beside a link card.
• Text inside an image is not searchable and is not read aloud, so anything that matters belongs in the post itself as well.

Check a file you already have against the LinkedIn post image size

Most LinkedIn images are charts, slides or screenshots exported out of something else, which is why so many arrive at odd sizes and come out soft. Measuring first separates a shape problem from a resolution one.

1. 1Pick the target first. This page carries 3 LinkedIn post image 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 1200x627, the same 1.91:1 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. 5If it is a chart or a slide, check it against the landscape row first, because that is the shape a deck exports at and usually the one that needs no crop at all.

What LinkedIn does when the shape is wrong

LinkedIn scales an image to the column width and shows most shapes whole, so the usual failure is not a crop at all: it is a picture that arrives too small to read, or so tall that people scroll it rather than look at it.

• A screenshot taken at browser width is often narrower than the column once it reaches a retina screen, so it is enlarged and the type inside it blurs.
• A very tall image is drawn at the column width and runs well past a screen, which in a feed means it gets scrolled rather than read.
• An image shaped differently from the link card it accompanies is refitted to that card, so the preview and the post end up showing different crops of one picture.

What gets a LinkedIn image looked at

Once the shape is right the rest stops being a size question. This feed is read on a laptop at a glance and on a phone in a queue, and the images that work there carry a single legible idea.

• One chart making one point. A dashboard screenshot with nine panels is unreadable at column width.
• Large type, high contrast, and no more than a dozen words inside the image.
• If a document or a carousel would tell it better, use one. A single image is the wrong container for six slides.