--- url: "https://taplio.com/blog/linkedin-post-image-size" title: "LinkedIn post image size and dimensions (2026)" description: "LinkedIn post images work best at 1080 x 1080 or 1080 x 1350. Every size, which figures LinkedIn actually publishes, and how the feed crops." type: blog h1: "LinkedIn post image size and dimensions" author: "Annika Bautista" date_published: "Sep 17, 2026" date_modified: "Sep 16, 2026" lastmod: 2026-07-17 image: "https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/695b9ec3eda25c5e9d732e90/6a9e776e4aa64a5d84fc3ecb_6a9e775f2b83ba7b292c341d_post-image-size-ps-cover.avif" fetched_at: 2026-10-06T09:08:14.436Z --- [Blog](https://taplio.com/blog)[Best LinkedIn Practices](https://taplio.com/blog)[LinkedIn post image size and dimensions](https://taplio.com/blog/linkedin-post-image-size) # LinkedIn post image size and dimensions ![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/695b9ec3eda25c5e9d732e90/698073d08615d542bab4a642_annika.png) Annika Bautista Growth @Taplio ![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/695b9ec3eda25c5e9d732e90/6a9e776e4aa64a5d84fc3ecb_6a9e775f2b83ba7b292c341d_post-image-size-ps-cover.avif) ## Key Takeaways 1. **LinkedIn post image size:** Use 1080 x 1080 pixels for square and 1080 x 1350 pixels for portrait, with 1200 x 627 for landscape and link previews, though LinkedIn publishes no recommended feed image size, verified against its help centre on 7 September 2026. 2. **How the feed crops it:** LinkedIn fits the image to the feed column width and lets height follow up to a 4:5 ceiling, so anything taller, such as a 9:16 story graphic, is clamped and loses bands from the top and bottom. 3. **The figure that decides:** 4:5 at 1080 x 1350 is the tallest shape LinkedIn renders without cropping, and LinkedIn Help's Pages specifications document a 1512 x 256 cover that corrects the widely quoted 1400 x 425. 4. **Check before exporting:** Match the aspect ratio rather than the pixel count, keep 1080 pixels on the long edge, stay inside 4:5, keep key details away from the outer edges, export in sRGB, and convert to JPEG or PNG because WEBP uploads on Android only and HEIC on iOS only. 5. **Decision rule:** Choose portrait 1080 x 1350 for text-bearing graphics and charts, square 1080 x 1080 when the asset must work on other networks, and landscape 1200 x 627 only when the subject is genuinely wide. The working answer is 1080 x 1080 pixels for a square LinkedIn post image and 1080 x 1350 for a portrait one. Both fill the feed column on mobile, which is where most of your audience will see them. There is a catch worth knowing before you trust that number or any other on this subject: LinkedIn does not publish a recommended size for feed post images. This guide separates what the platform actually documents from what the internet has agreed on, and shows you how the feed treats your image either way. ## What size should a LinkedIn post image be? Use 1080 x 1080 pixels for square and 1080 x 1350 for portrait. Portrait takes more vertical space in the feed, which is why it tends to hold attention longer on a phone. Square is safer if the same asset has to work on other platforms too. Landscape images at 1200 x 627 pixels, a 1.91:1 ratio, are the format for link previews rather than uploaded photos. If you upload a landscape image directly it will work, it will simply occupy less of the screen than anything taller. Three practical rules matter more than the exact pixel count. **Match the aspect ratio, not just the pixel width.** The feed lays out by ratio. An image at 2160 x 2160 and one at 1080 x 1080 are laid out identically, because both are 1:1. Doubling the pixels buys you sharpness on high-density screens and nothing else. **Do not go under 1080 pixels on the long edge.** Past that point LinkedIn's compression has less to work with, and text inside the image is the first thing to soften. **Put nothing important in the outer edges.** Feeds crop differently across viewports, and LinkedIn's own documentation for Pages tells owners to keep key details away from the edges and centre what matters. ## LinkedIn post image sizes at a glance Here is every size worth having in one place. The source column is doing real work: it separates the figures LinkedIn publishes from the figures the industry has converged on. | Where it appears | Size | Ratio | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Feed post, square | 1080 x 1080 px | 1:1 | Industry consensus, not published by LinkedIn | | Feed post, portrait | 1080 x 1350 px | 4:5 | Industry consensus, not published by LinkedIn | | Feed post, landscape | 1200 x 627 px | 1.91:1 | Industry consensus, not published by LinkedIn | | Carousel or document page | 1080 x 1350 px | 4:5 | Industry consensus, not published by LinkedIn | | Personal profile banner | 1584 x 396 px | 4:1 | Tool presets and rendered profile, not published by LinkedIn | | Company Page cover | 1512 x 256 px | 5.91:1 | LinkedIn Help, Pages image specifications | | Company Page logo | 400 x 400 px recommended, 268 x 268 minimum | 1:1 | LinkedIn Help, Pages image specifications | | Life tab main image | 1128 x 376 px | 3:1 | LinkedIn Help, Pages image specifications | | Life tab custom module | 502 x 282 px | 16:9 | LinkedIn Help, Pages image specifications | | Company photos | 900 x 600 px recommended, 264 x 176 minimum | 3:2 | LinkedIn Help, Pages image specifications | | Page image file cap | 3MB, PNG or JPEG | n/a | LinkedIn Help, Pages image specifications | If you only remember one row, make it the second. Portrait at 1080 x 1350 is the highest-performing shape for a feed image on mobile, for the simple reason that it takes up more of the screen than anything else LinkedIn will render without cropping. Two rows deserve a footnote. A carousel is not a separate image format: it is a PDF document post, and each page is rendered at the page size of the PDF, so build the document at 1080 x 1350 per page rather than exporting slides as images. And the landscape row is the only size on this list that LinkedIn effectively enforces, because link previews are generated from the Open Graph image on the destination page rather than from anything you upload. ## What LinkedIn actually publishes, and what it does not LinkedIn publishes image specifications for company Pages and a supported file type list. It does not publish a recommended pixel size for organic feed post images, personal profile banners or profile photos. That is an uncomfortable thing for a sizing guide to admit, so most of them do not. Here is what was verified directly against LinkedIn's help centre on 7 September 2026. **Published, and current.** The page titled "Image specifications for your LinkedIn Pages and Career Pages" was last updated three weeks before this article. It states that all images must be PNG or JPEG with a maximum size of 3MB, and gives exact dimensions for the Page logo, Page cover, Life tab main image, Life custom modules and company photos. Every figure in this guide attributed to LinkedIn comes from that page. **Published, and useful.** The page titled "Media file types supported on LinkedIn" lists which formats work on which client. It is the only authoritative answer to the file type question, and it contains a trap covered further down. **Not published anywhere.** A recommended size for feed images. The numbers everyone quotes, including the ones in this article, trace back to third-party guides and to what the feed visibly does, not to a LinkedIn document. This does not make 1080 x 1080 wrong. It makes it a well-tested convention rather than a specification, and the difference matters when something changes. A published spec gets a changelog. A convention just quietly stops being true, which is why every guide on this subject carries a year in its title. One consequence for you: do not spend time chasing a pixel-perfect number. Match the ratio, clear 1080 on the long edge, and spend the saved effort on what the image says. You can check any of this yourself in about a minute, and it is worth doing before a redesign. Search the LinkedIn help centre for the page title rather than for a dimension, because the help centre indexes by article name. Every LinkedIn help article carries a "last updated" line at the top, which tells you whether you are reading something current or something from three years ago. If a figure is not on a linkedin.com help page, treat it as convention and date it. ## How LinkedIn crops your image in the feed LinkedIn does not crop your image to a fixed size. It fits your image to the width of the feed column and lets the height follow, up to a limit. Past that limit it stops scaling and crops the excess, which is what people experience as their image being cut off. Two boundaries decide what happens. ![Diagram showing how the LinkedIn feed clamps an image taller than 4:5 and trims the top and bottom bands](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/695b9ec3eda25c5e9d732e90/6a9e776f4aa64a5d84fc3f60_6a9e77600db3c49fdd0f2658_post-image-size-ps-crop.avif) The 4:5 ceiling. Anything taller is clamped and loses its top and bottom bands. **Too tall.** An image taller than roughly 4:5 gets clamped. Anything past that point is trimmed from the top and bottom, so a 9:16 story graphic posted straight to the feed loses its top and bottom bands. This is the single most common way a good graphic arrives broken. **Too wide.** A very wide panorama is scaled to the column width and ends up only a few dozen pixels tall on a phone. Nothing is cropped, but nothing is legible either, which is worse. The practical takeaway is to design inside 4:5 and treat it as a hard ceiling rather than a suggestion. If your artwork is genuinely taller, put the important content in the middle 80 percent and accept that the outer bands are decoration. ## Square, portrait or landscape: which to use Choose portrait when you want maximum feed real estate, square when the asset has to travel across platforms, and landscape only when the image is genuinely wide. Here is what each shape costs and buys, drawn at true proportions. ![The three LinkedIn image ratios drawn to scale: 1:1 square, 4:5 portrait and 1.91:1 landscape with pixel sizes](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/695b9ec3eda25c5e9d732e90/6a9e776f4aa64a5d84fc3f65_6a9e7763aa436f53b6c88cd8_post-image-size-ps-ratios.avif) The three shapes at true proportion. Portrait buys the most feed height, landscape the least. **Portrait, 1080 x 1350, 4:5.** The most screen space LinkedIn will give a single image. Best for text-bearing graphics, charts and anything a reader has to actually read. The cost is that it takes longer to design well, because a tall canvas is easy to fill badly. **Square, 1080 x 1080, 1:1.** The safe default. Slightly less feed height than portrait, and the same file works on most other networks without a re-export. Best for single-idea graphics and photos. **Landscape, 1200 x 627, 1.91:1.** The link preview shape. Fine for a genuinely wide photograph, poor for anything with words in it, because at phone width the type gets very small. Use it when the subject is wide, not because the file happened to come out that way. For multi-image posts the rules change slightly: LinkedIn tiles two or more images into a grid, so individual shapes matter less than consistency between them. Two portraits tile cleanly. A portrait and a landscape tile badly. If you are building a multi-page asset instead, a document post gives you a full 4:5 page per slide, and our [LinkedIn carousel generator](https://taplio.com/linkedin-carousel-generator) builds those at the right size automatically. ## LinkedIn profile and Page image sizes Profile and Page images follow different rules from feed images, and this is the area where LinkedIn does publish real numbers. Everything in this section comes from LinkedIn's Pages image specifications page. ![Diagram of LinkedIn's published company Page image specifications with each dimension labelled](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/695b9ec3eda25c5e9d732e90/6a9eadc725a4dc4a1eada4ba_6a9eada625a4dc4a1ead9278_post-image-size-fix-ps-pagespecs.fix.avif) Every figure here is published by LinkedIn in its Pages image specifications, including the 1512 x 256 cover that corrects the widely quoted 1400 x 425. Note the correction hiding in there. Company Page covers are 1512 x 256 pixels according to LinkedIn. A figure of 1400 x 425 circulates widely, including in older versions of this article, and it does not match what LinkedIn documents. If you sized a Page cover from that number, it is worth redoing. LinkedIn adds several pieces of placement guidance on the same page, and they are worth following because they come from the people who built the layout. **Choose a high-resolution JPEG over a PNG** for cover images, which is the opposite of the usual advice and specific to how LinkedIn processes them. **Keep key details away from the edges,** especially the lower-right corner of a cover image, and centre anything important, because covers are trimmed differently on different screens. **Test your logo on light and dark backgrounds,** since it will be shown on both. A transparent logo is placed on white. Personal profile images are the gap. LinkedIn does not publish a figure for the personal banner or the profile photo. The working numbers are 1584 x 396 for the banner and 400 x 400 for the photo, both conventions rather than specifications. Our [guide to LinkedIn banner sizes](https://taplio.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-for-linkedin-banners) covers the banner crops in detail, and our [guide to the LinkedIn profile picture](https://taplio.com/blog/linkedin-profile-picture) covers what makes a photo work once it is sized correctly. ## File types, file size and quality LinkedIn accepts JPEG and PNG everywhere, GIF everywhere, and two formats that only work on one platform each. That last part catches people out, and it is documented. ![Support matrix showing which image file types work on LinkedIn desktop, iOS and Android](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/695b9ec3eda25c5e9d732e90/6a9e776f4aa64a5d84fc3f68_6a9e776136fff37c4499abec_post-image-size-ps-filetypes.avif) The two rows that catch people out: WEBP is Android only and HEIC is iOS only. | File type | Desktop | iOS | Android | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JPEG | Yes | Yes | Yes | | PNG | Yes | Yes | Yes | | GIF | Yes | Yes | Yes | | HEIF and HEIC | No | Yes | No | | WEBP | No | No | Yes | The trap is WEBP and HEIC. WEBP is supported on Android only. HEIF and HEIC, the default photo format on an iPhone, are supported on iOS only. So an image exported as WEBP from a modern design tool will not upload from a desktop browser, and an unconverted iPhone photo will not upload from an Android phone or a laptop. Both fail confusingly, because the file looks fine everywhere else. Convert to JPEG or PNG before uploading and the problem disappears. That is the whole fix. On file size, the only cap LinkedIn publishes is 3MB for Page images. There is no published cap for feed images. In practice you will not approach any limit with a correctly exported 1080 x 1350 graphic, which lands well under a megabyte. **Choose the format by content, not habit.** Use PNG for graphics with flat colour, sharp edges and text, because it keeps type crisp. Use JPEG for photographs, where it is smaller at the same visible quality. Avoid re-saving a JPEG repeatedly, since each save discards a little more detail. **Export in sRGB.** A file saved in a wide colour space such as Adobe RGB or Display P3 will often come back looking flat or slightly wrong after upload, because the colours get converted for the web on the way in. Brand colours are where this is most visible, and it is the usual explanation when a graphic looks correct in your design tool and dull in the feed. Finally, export at the size you intend to publish. Uploading a 400-pixel-wide image and letting LinkedIn scale it up is the most common cause of a blurry post, and no amount of choosing the right ratio will rescue it. If you want to check how an image will sit before it goes out, our [LinkedIn post generator](https://taplio.com/linkedin-post-generator) previews the post as it will appear in the feed. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I post 1080x1350 on LinkedIn? Yes, and it is the recommended shape for a feed image. 1080 x 1350 is a 4:5 portrait ratio, which is the tallest LinkedIn renders without cropping, so it occupies the most feed space on a phone. Go taller than 4:5 and the image gets clamped, losing bands from the top and bottom. ### Is LinkedIn post 16:9? No. 16:9 is a video ratio, not the shape of a feed image post. Uploaded images work best at 1:1 or 4:5, and the standard wide format for link previews is 1.91:1 at 1200 x 627 pixels, which is close to 16:9 but not the same. A 16:9 image will upload and display, it will simply be short on screen and hard to read if it contains text. ### What are the recommended post dimensions for LinkedIn in 2026? 1080 x 1080 for square, 1080 x 1350 for portrait, 1200 x 627 for landscape and link previews. Worth stating plainly: these are industry conventions, not LinkedIn specifications, because LinkedIn does not publish recommended dimensions for feed posts. The figures LinkedIn does publish cover company Pages, where the cover is 1512 x 256 and the logo is 400 x 400. ### What is the 3/2/1 rule on LinkedIn? It is a content mix guideline, not an image sizing rule, and it turns up in this search because the phrase is popular rather than because it is related. The common version says that for every six posts you publish three pieces of industry or expertise content, two about your company or team, and one promotional. It says nothing about dimensions. ### What file types does LinkedIn support for images? JPEG, PNG and GIF work on desktop, iOS and Android. WEBP works on Android only. HEIF and HEIC work on iOS only. This comes from LinkedIn's supported media file types page. Converting to JPEG or PNG before you upload avoids every platform-specific failure. ### What is the maximum image file size on LinkedIn? LinkedIn publishes a 3MB cap for images on company Pages and Career Pages, and requires them to be PNG or JPEG. It does not publish a cap for feed post images. A correctly exported 1080 x 1350 graphic will be well under a megabyte, so the limit is rarely the thing that stops you.