LinkedIn Banner Size in 2026 (and the Mobile Crop Nobody Mentions)

1584 × 396 for a personal profile, 1128 × 191 for a company page. Then the part that ruins most banners: on mobile, LinkedIn throws away roughly a quarter of your image from each side.

If you came here for the number, it is at the top and you can leave. The reason this article exists is the second half, which is that getting the dimensions right is not enough, and the most common banner failure is a banner that is perfectly sized and still shows a headless torso and half a word to most of the people who see it.

The numbers

	Personal profile banner	Company page cover
Dimensions	1584 × 396 px	1128 × 191 px
Aspect ratio	4:1	roughly 5.9:1
Max file size	8 MB	8 MB
Formats	JPG, PNG, GIF (non-animated)	JPG, PNG
Mobile safe zone	centre ~840 px	varies, keep centre

The two are not interchangeable, and this catches people who manage both a personal profile and a company page. A 4:1 personal banner uploaded as a company cover gets cropped hard. A 5.9:1 company cover uploaded to a personal profile gets letterboxed. Make two files.

The mobile crop, which is the actual problem

On desktop, LinkedIn shows your full 1584 pixels. On mobile it does not. It crops to a centre slice roughly 840 pixels wide, which throws away about 372 pixels from each side.

Most LinkedIn traffic is mobile. So the honest way to think about your banner is that the outer quarter on each side is decoration that most of your audience will never see, and the centre 840 pixels is the banner.

This is why so many banners look broken in practice. Someone designs a nice composition in Canva at 1584 × 396, puts their logo bottom-left and their tagline bottom-right, looks at it on desktop, and ships it. On a phone, both are gone. What remains is whatever happened to be in the middle, which is usually empty space.

What this means when you design

Put everything that carries meaning in the centre 840 pixels: your name, your tagline, your logo, any face. Treat the outer bands as texture that extends the design, a gradient, a photograph continuing, a colour field. Nothing there should be load-bearing.

Our LinkedIn cover photo maker draws the safe zone as a dashed overlay on the preview, which is the only reliable way to compose for this. Designing at 1584 wide and eyeballing where the middle is does not work, because the crop is not centred on what looks central to you, it is centred on the pixel midpoint.

The profile photo overlap

The other thing that eats your banner is your own face. Your profile photo sits on top of the banner, overlapping its bottom edge, and its position moves depending on the viewport.

On desktop it sits toward the left, roughly a fifth of the way across, and covers the bottom-left region of the banner. On mobile, on a narrower layout, it sits differently again. So the bottom-left of your banner is contested space at every screen size.

The practical rule: do not put anything in the bottom-left quadrant. Not text, not a logo, not the subject of a photograph. It is the single most reliable way to have your banner's most important element hidden behind your own head.

Resolution: upload bigger than the spec

1584 × 396 is the display size, not the upload ceiling. LinkedIn downscales gracefully and upscales badly, so an image at exactly 1584 wide will look slightly soft on a retina screen, which is asking for roughly double the pixel density.

Upload at 3168 × 792 (exactly 2×) if you have the source resolution. It stays under the 8 MB cap easily as a JPEG, and it is noticeably sharper on the laptops and phones most people are actually using.

What you must not do is upload something smaller than 1584 wide and hope. LinkedIn will stretch it, and stretched banners look cheap in a way that undercuts everything else on the profile.

File size and format

The cap is 8 MB, which is generous enough that almost nobody hits it accidentally. JPEG is right for photographic banners. PNG is right for flat colour, gradients with hard stops, or anything with text rendered into the image, because JPEG compression puts visible artefacts around letterforms.

If you have exported a PNG with text and it is coming out at 12 MB, do not shrink the dimensions. Either export as JPEG at quality 90, or run it through our image compressor, which binary-searches the quality setting to hit a target file size. Dimensions are what buy you sharpness; compression is what buys you file size. Trading the wrong one is the usual mistake.

What actually belongs on a banner

Having covered the mechanics, here is the part that is opinion rather than specification, offered as such.

Most banners are wasted. The default is a stock photo of a city skyline or an abstract blue gradient, which communicates nothing and occupies the single largest piece of visual real estate on your profile. It is the billboard above your name and most people leave it blank in effect.

Things that use it well:

A one-line statement of what you do for whom. Not your job title, which is already directly below it. "Helping fintech teams ship compliant features faster" tells a visitor something your title does not. Keep it short enough to read at a glance and centre it in the safe zone.

Proof. A logo row of clients or publications you have worked with. A single number that means something in your field. This works because it is information a profile visitor was going to look for anyway.

A photograph of you working. Speaking at something, in a workshop, at a bench. It reads as evidence rather than decoration, and it gives the profile a second image of you that is not another headshot.

Deliberate empty space. A single flat colour that matches your headshot's background, with nothing on it, looks composed and intentional. It is better than a bad banner and it takes two minutes.

Things that do not work: the skyline of a city you do not live in, a stock photo of a handshake, a motivational quote, your job title repeated, and anything with text small enough that it is unreadable at mobile width.

A note on the banner matching your headshot

This one is underrated and it is why the banner and the profile photo are really one design problem rather than two.

The two images sit adjacent, overlapping, and are seen together always. If your headshot has a warm cream background and your banner is a cold blue gradient, the pair looks assembled from parts. If the banner picks up the background tone of the headshot, or vice versa, the whole header reads as one composition and looks considerably more expensive than the effort involved.

The easiest version: take the background colour of your headshot and use a slightly darker or lighter version of it as the banner's base. That is it. Everything else can sit on top of that.

If your headshot's background is a colour you cannot match because it is a photograph of a room, our background color changer will replace it with a flat tone you can then reuse as the banner base.

Generating a banner if you do not have one

If you want a photographic banner and have nothing suitable, our AI studio can generate a wide source. The Editorial and Outdoor styles produce the kind of image that crops well into a 4:1 band.

One caveat worth stating: standard outputs are 1024 pixels square, and cropping a 4:1 band out of that gives you around 1024 × 256, which is below the 1584 spec and will be stretched. For a banner specifically, generate at the higher-resolution tier and crop the centre band, or use the generated image as a background element in a design tool rather than as the whole banner at full width.

Quick checklist before you upload

• 1584 × 396 for personal, 1128 × 191 for company, and they are different files
• Upload at 2× if you have the resolution, never below spec
• Everything meaningful inside the centre 840 pixels
• Nothing important in the bottom-left, where your profile photo lands
• Under 8 MB; JPEG for photos, PNG for text and flat colour
• Check it on your phone before you decide it is done, not after

That last one is the whole article compressed. Almost every broken banner on LinkedIn was approved on a desktop screen by someone who never looked at it on a phone.

FAQ

What is the correct LinkedIn banner size in 2026? 1584 × 396 pixels for a personal profile banner, and 1128 × 191 pixels for a company page cover. Both cap at 8 MB and both accept JPG and PNG. The two ratios are different (4:1 versus roughly 5.9:1) so the same file cannot serve both.

Why does LinkedIn crop my banner on mobile? Because the mobile layout is narrower than 1584 pixels, LinkedIn crops the banner to a centre slice roughly 840 pixels wide, cutting about 372 pixels from each side. Since most LinkedIn viewing is mobile, anything in those outer bands is invisible to most of your audience. Keep all text, logos and faces inside the centre.

Should I upload a banner larger than 1584 × 396? Yes, if you have the resolution. Upload at 3168 × 792, which is exactly 2×, so it stays sharp on retina displays. LinkedIn downscales cleanly. What it does badly is upscale, so never upload below 1584 wide.

Where does the profile photo sit on the banner? Overlapping the bottom edge, positioned toward the left on desktop and shifting on mobile. Treat the entire bottom-left quadrant as unusable and put nothing important there, or your own headshot will cover it.

What file size can a LinkedIn banner be? Up to 8 MB. Use JPEG for photographic banners and PNG when the image contains text or flat colour, since JPEG compression leaves visible artefacts around letterforms. If a text-heavy PNG is over the cap, compress rather than shrinking the dimensions.

Can I use the same image for my personal banner and my company page cover? No. The aspect ratios differ enough that one will be letterboxed or aggressively cropped. Design the wider composition once and export two crops from it.

What should I actually put on a LinkedIn banner? Something a visitor would want to know that is not already on the profile: a one-line statement of who you help and how, proof such as client logos or a meaningful number, or a photo of you doing the work. Avoid stock skylines, handshake photos, motivational quotes, and your job title repeated, since it already appears directly below.

Does the banner affect how many people view my profile? There is no published LinkedIn data connecting banner design to profile views, and anyone quoting a precise figure is making it up. What is reasonable to say is that the banner is the largest single visual element on your profile, it is seen alongside your headshot every time, and a blank or generic one is a wasted opportunity rather than an active penalty.