LinkedIn Banner Size in 2026 (Exact Dimensions)

Your LinkedIn banner is the biggest piece of personal real estate you have on the platform. It’s also the easiest thing to get slightly wrong: scroll your feed for two minutes and you’ll see banners with text clipped by a profile photo, logos cut off on mobile, or upscaled stock images going soft.

This is the short version, checked against LinkedIn’s Help Center in October 2026: exact dimensions, safe zones, mobile crop rules, and the design rules that keep your banner from getting half-eaten on a phone.

Banner type	Upload size	Aspect ratio	Max file size	Formats
Personal profile	1584 × 396 px	4 : 1	8 MB	PNG, JPG
Company page (cover)	1512 × 256 px	~5.9 : 1	3 MB	PNG, JPG
Company “Life” tab cover	1128 × 376 px	~3 : 1	3 MB	PNG, JPG
Showcase page (cover)	1512 × 256 px	~5.9 : 1	3 MB	PNG, JPG
Group cover	1776 × 444 px	4 : 1	Not listed	PNG, JPG
Event cover	1280 × 720 px (min width 480)	16 : 9	Not listed	Not listed
Newsletter cover	1920 × 1080 px	16 : 9	Not listed	Not listed

Sources: LinkedIn Help (Page image specifications) for company and Showcase Page covers (1512 × 256; LinkedIn doesn’t list a separate Showcase size); LinkedIn Help (add or change your profile cover) for personal covers (1584 × 396); LinkedIn Help (photo upload requirements) for file type and the no-GIF rule; LinkedIn Help for group, event, and newsletter covers.

Most people only need the first row. If you’re posting from your personal profile, design at 1584 × 396 pixels and stop reading. The rest of this post explains why that exact size, and what to do inside the frame so nothing important gets cut.

Example of my LinkedIn profile

This is the banner that sits behind your profile photo on your personal page. The recommended size is 1584 × 396 pixels, a 4:1 aspect ratio, max 8 MB as PNG or JPG.

Design at the target dimensions. Anything narrower than 1584 px gets upscaled and goes blurry on retina displays. Anything larger gets downscaled, which mostly wastes file size and softens text.

For format, PNG keeps text sharper and JPG keeps photographic backgrounds smaller. Skip GIF and WebP. The 8 MB ceiling is generous: photographic backgrounds at JPG quality 80 to 85 usually land under 500 KB, and flat-color designs as PNG often land under 100 KB. Maxing out the file size is overkill.

The safe zone (the part of your banner nobody can see)

This is the rule everyone misses. Your profile photo sits over the bottom-left of your banner, and LinkedIn says how your cover appears can change with browser window size and screen resolution. LinkedIn’s cover image advice is to keep key details away from the edges. So three areas of your banner are unreliable, and you have to design around them.

The three unreliable zones on a personal profile banner:

The profile photo covers a circular area in the bottom-left of your banner on desktop. Its exact size and position vary by screen, so keep critical text and faces well clear of this zone.
Smaller screens can trim the banner, so content near the left and right edges is at risk. Plenty of people will see your profile in the mobile app, so check that view first.
The top edge can get trimmed too when LinkedIn fits the image to different screens. Don’t anchor anything tight against the top.

The reliable zone is the upper-center of your banner. Put your headline, logo, or call to action there. A simple working rule: imagine a centered rectangle covering roughly the middle two-thirds of the banner width and the upper two-thirds of the height. Anything important goes inside that rectangle.

The cleanest way to handle this in a design tool: place a 1584 × 396 frame, drop a circle representing your profile photo in the bottom-left as a guide, and never let any text overlap that circle or sit within ~10% of any edge. Then upload it and check your profile on a phone, since the exact crop varies by device.

Company Page covers are a more stretched, shorter shape than personal banners, though slightly narrower in pixels. LinkedIn’s official Page cover spec is 1512 × 256 pixels (minimum and recommended), about 5.9:1, max 3 MB as PNG or JPEG. LinkedIn has changed this number twice since 2025 (it listed 1128 × 191, then 4200 × 700), so older guides may still show those sizes. Keep type off the edges, especially the lower-right. See LinkedIn’s Page image specifications.

Things to plan around:

Your company logo sits in the bottom-left of the banner, so keep that area visually quiet.
LinkedIn says the cover may be trimmed horizontally or vertically to fit different screens. Keep taglines and contact info out of the corners.
The safe target is the center of the frame, which LinkedIn says stays visible across screen sizes. Put product visuals, headlines, or launches there.

If you also use the LinkedIn “Life” tab (the recruiting and culture section, available with LinkedIn’s paid Career Pages add-on), its main image is 1128 × 376 pixels, a 3:1 shape that is much taller than the 1512 × 256 Page cover. Build it as a separate design with its own composition.

Mobile vs desktop: what actually changes

The banner is one image, but LinkedIn renders it differently on every screen. Two practical differences to design around:

The visible area changes with screen size, so content near the left and right edges can disappear on a phone.
The profile photo overlaps the bottom-left of the banner, and how much it covers changes from screen to screen.

The exact crop varies by device and app version, so don’t trust any guide that gives you a precise pixel number. The reliable test: upload the banner and check your profile on a phone. If your headline survives the mobile view, you’re done.

Pixel dimensions get you a banner that’s not blurry. These get you a banner that earns the click.

One headline, no paragraphs. Treat the banner like a billboard. The job is to communicate one thing in under three seconds: what you do, who you help, or what you’re known for.
Big type, high contrast. Minimum 48 px font size for headlines on a 1584-wide banner. White text on a dark background or dark text on a flat color will always beat gradients-with-overlay text.
Match your profile photo. Your banner and headshot are seen together. Same color palette, same vibe. If your headshot is warm and natural and your banner is cold and corporate, the page reads as someone else’s.
Skip the icons-of-tools-I-use trend. Logos of WordPress, ChatGPT, Notion, Slack, etc., as a row across your banner: this looked fresh in 2022. It now looks like every other freelance profile. Use the space for something only you would put there.
Don’t put your URL in the banner. LinkedIn already shows your custom URL on the profile, and people don’t manually type URLs from images. The space is better spent on your value prop.

Putting text behind the profile photo. You wrote a tagline, then the photo circle ate the first three words. The most common mistake on the platform.
Pinning important elements to the edges. A logo or QR code on the far right edge can get trimmed on smaller screens, which is why LinkedIn advises keeping key details away from the edges.
Stretching a 1200 × 300 image to 1584 × 396. The upscale shows. Always start at the target size or larger, then export down.
Putting a low-contrast text overlay on a stock photo. The photo wins and the text disappears. Use a flat background or add a solid color block behind the text.
Designing in 16:9. The 1920 × 1080 shape is a presentation slide. LinkedIn personal banners are 4:1, which is much wider and much shorter. Designs that work for one shape rarely work for the other.

Canva: the default. Has a 1584 × 396 LinkedIn banner template built in, plus thousands of starter designs. Fastest path if you’re not a designer.
Figma: better if you want pixel control or you’re matching a brand system. Has a free Starter plan with limits.
Adobe Express: free LinkedIn banner resizer if you already have a design at the wrong size.
RightBlogger AI Image Generator: useful if you want a banner from a written prompt instead of designing from scratch. Describe the scene plus the headline, pick the widest aspect ratio (21:9), then crop the result to 1584 × 396.

FAQ

1584 × 396 pixels for a personal profile banner and 1512 × 256 pixels for a company Page cover, both as PNG or JPG. Personal banners can run up to 8 MB; company covers cap at 3 MB.

Usually one of two reasons: the upload was smaller than 1584 px wide and LinkedIn upscaled it, or the file was already over-compressed before upload (low-quality JPG, or a tool that pre-compressed it). Re-export at the target dimensions using PNG or JPG at quality 85+, then upload again.

That’s the mobile crop. LinkedIn adjusts how your cover appears based on screen size and resolution, so content near the left or right edge can get clipped on a phone. Move important content toward the center, then preview on your own phone before keeping the design.

No. LinkedIn does not support GIFs for profile or background photos. Use PNG or JPG. Personal covers stay under 8 MB; Page covers stay under 3 MB. If you want movement, post a video. Some LinkedIn Premium plans also let you rotate up to five cover images as a slideshow. Source: LinkedIn Help on photo uploads.

Whenever the message is stale. If your banner says “Open to senior PM roles” and you took the role six months ago, update it. Otherwise, every 6 to 12 months is plenty.

The 30-second checklist before you upload

1584 × 396 px (personal) or 1512 × 256 px (company Page), exported as PNG or JPG.
No important content in the bottom-left circle (profile photo overlap) or near the left/right edges (mobile crop).
One clear headline, 48 px or larger, high contrast.
Banner palette and headshot palette feel like the same person.
Previewed on a phone before saving.

Get those five right and your banner does its job: communicates one thing fast, on any device, without anything getting clipped. That’s the whole bar.

If you’ve already nailed the LinkedIn side and want to ship the same brand across other platforms, our TikTok safe-zone template covers the same crop-and-overlap math for short-form video covers.