LinkedIn Banner Size Guide 2026
The short answer: a personal LinkedIn banner is 1584 × 396 pixels — a wide 4:1 strip — and the one rule that separates a polished profile from a broken-looking one is simple: keep your message right of center and in the upper band. LinkedIn floats your circular profile photo on top of the banner, and where that circle lands changes between desktop and the mobile app. This guide has the exact dimensions for every LinkedIn image, a map of what the photo overlap actually hides, and design advice for a banner that reads as professional at a glance.
Every LinkedIn image size in one table
| Image | Size | Ratio | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal profile banner | 1584 × 396 px | 4:1 | The background image behind your name — upload at exactly this size. |
| Company Page cover | 1128 × 191 px | ≈5.9:1 | Much shorter than the personal banner; needs its own design. |
| Profile photo | 400 × 400 px minimum | 1:1 | Displayed as a circle — center your face, ignore the corners. |
| Company logo | 300 × 300 px | 1:1 | Square canvas with breathing room around the mark. |
The profile photo overlap — LinkedIn's hidden crop
Unlike most cover formats, a LinkedIn banner is never shown on its own. Your profile photo — a circle roughly a third of the banner's height — is drawn on top of it, and the page's white content card rises up from below. On desktop the circle covers the bottom-left corner of the banner; open the same profile in the mobile app and it slides toward the center-left, eating further into the image.
The practical consequence: the left third and the bottom edge of your banner are unreliable real estate. Treat the area right of center — and the upper band across the full width — as the only zone where a headline, tagline or logo is guaranteed to stay visible on every device. Backgrounds, textures and photography can run edge to edge; words and marks cannot.
Personal banner vs. Company Page cover
The two surfaces are easy to confuse and not interchangeable. The personal banner is 1584 × 396 at 4:1 — tall enough for a headline, a short list of services or a piece of brand photography. The Company Page cover is 1128 × 191, an almost 6:1 sliver with less than half the relative height. A design carried from one to the other either gets cropped to a ribbon or stretched out of shape. Build each at its own size, and keep the company cover's content minimal: a wordmark, a color field, maybe one short line.
Design tips for a professional-looking banner
LinkedIn is the one network where restraint outperforms personality. Two or three colors, one typeface, and a single clear message — what you do, who you help, or the name of the thing you're known for — beat a collage every time. Because the banner sits directly behind your name and headline, it works best as a backdrop with one accent, not a poster competing for attention.
Check contrast against the page itself: the banner meets a white interface on the light theme and a near-black one in dark mode, so avoid placing pale text near the bottom where the card boundary shifts. If you'd rather start from a working layout, the free template library has banner-friendly designs you can recolor to match your brand.
Common mistakes to avoid
Text in the bottom-left corner. The single most common LinkedIn banner error. The layout looks balanced in your editor, then the profile photo lands exactly on top of the tagline. Right of center, upper band — always.
Recycling a banner from another platform. A Twitter/X header is 3:1 and a Facebook cover is even squarer — neither matches LinkedIn's 4:1, and neither accounts for the photo overlap. The Twitter header size guide and the Facebook cover size guide cover those formats; give each platform its own artboard.
Uploading an undersized image. LinkedIn happily accepts a small file and scales it up to fill 1584 × 396 — the result is a soft, pixelated backdrop behind an otherwise sharp profile. Export at full size; with an 8MB upload ceiling, there's no reason to shrink anything.
Frequently asked questions
What is the correct LinkedIn banner size in 2026?+
The background banner on a personal LinkedIn profile is 1584×396 pixels, a 4:1 ratio. Company Pages use a different cover at 1128×191 pixels. Upload at exactly those dimensions — LinkedIn stretches smaller images and crops mismatched ratios, both of which degrade the result.
Why does my profile photo cover part of my banner?+
LinkedIn layers your circular profile photo on top of the banner rather than below it. On desktop the circle sits over the banner's bottom-left corner; on the mobile app it shifts to the center-left and covers even more height. Any text or logo placed in the left third or along the bottom edge risks hiding behind your own face — keep the message right of center and in the upper band.
Why does my LinkedIn banner look blurry?+
Almost always because the source image was smaller than 1584×396 and LinkedIn scaled it up, or because a text-heavy design was saved as a heavily compressed JPG. Export at the full 1584×396, choose PNG when the banner contains text or flat color, and the compression LinkedIn applies on upload will barely show.
What file types and sizes does LinkedIn accept for banners?+
JPG, PNG and GIF, with a maximum upload size of 8MB for a background banner. That ceiling is generous — a 1584×396 PNG rarely passes 2MB — so pick the format for quality, not weight: PNG for graphics and text, JPG for purely photographic backgrounds.
Is a company page cover the same size as a personal banner?+
No. A Company Page cover is 1128×191 pixels — a much shorter, wider strip at roughly 5.9:1, less than half the height of the 4:1 personal banner. A personal banner uploaded to a Company Page gets cropped to a thin slice, so each surface needs its own design.
What size should my LinkedIn profile photo and company logo be?+
Upload a profile photo of at least 400×400 pixels — it displays as a circle, so keep your face centered and away from the corners. Company logos should be 300×300 pixels; a square logo with padding around the mark survives LinkedIn's various placements best.
Design your banner at exactly 1584 × 396
Graphtr opens a canvas already set to LinkedIn's 1584 × 396 banner size, so the dimensions are correct before you add your first element. Free, runs in the browser, and exports PNG or JPG ready to upload.