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Social Media Templates
24 templates at the exact pixel sizes the platforms publish — posts, stories, pins, thumbnails, channel art and profile pictures — with the crop and the safe area drawn where each platform actually puts them. No trim, no bleed, no paper.
| Trim sizes | 2000 × 2000 px · 2560 × 1440 px · 1000 × 2100 px · 1080 × 1920 px · 1920 × 1005 px · 1000 × 1500 px · 1080 × 1350 px · 1600 × 900 px · and more |
|---|---|
| Bleed | none |
| Resolution target | 72 DPI |
| Templates | 24 |
| Pages | 24 |
Social media templates (24)
Black and Brass Bold 1280×720 YouTube Thumbnail1280 × 720 px1280 × 720 px. The headline is 78 px tall — at 72 dpi a point IS a pixel — because a thumbnail is read at about 210 px wide in a sidebar, where anything under about 60 px is decoration.
Black and Brass Bold 2560×1440 YouTube Channel Banner2560 × 1440 px2560 × 1440 px uploaded, but only the central 1546 × 423 px is visible on every device — mobile shows that strip, desktop widens to 2560 × 423, and only a TV sees the whole canvas. Every word on this banner sits inside the safe strip; the rest is decoration that carries nothing.
Black and White Minimalist 1584×396 LinkedIn Profile Banner1584 × 396 px1584 × 396 px. The lower left is left empty because the profile photo is laid over it on desktop — a banner with a name in that corner has the name covered by a face.
Black and White Minimalist 1600×900 X Post Image1600 × 900 px1600 × 900 px. One number and one sentence — a stat card is read in a scroll, so anything that needs a second look is wasted.
Black and White Minimalist 500×500 Social Profile Picture500 × 500 px500 × 500 px, and it is the same file every platform wants: Facebook 500, X and LinkedIn 400, Instagram 320, TikTok 200. All of them crop it to a CIRCLE, so the mark sits inside the inscribed disc and the corners carry nothing.
Blush and Oat Elegant 1000×2100 Pinterest Tall Pin1000 × 2100 px1000 × 2100 px — the tall pin, which takes more feed height than anything else Pinterest shows. Numbered items, because a tall pin that is not a list is just a long picture.
Blush and Oat Elegant 2000×2000 Etsy Listing Photo2000 × 2000 px2000 × 2000 px. Etsy shows the first listing photo as a square thumbnail about 300 px wide in search — the title is set to survive that, and everything else is allowed to be small.
Clay and Bone Warm 1080×1350 Instagram Carousel Slide1080 × 1350 px1080 × 1350 px, the 4:5 portrait post — the tallest ratio the feed will show without cropping, and therefore the most screen a post can take. Numbered so a carousel is a duplicate and one edit.
Clay and Bone Warm 1080×1920 TikTok Video Cover1080 × 1920 px1080 × 1920 px. The title sits in the upper half because TikTok lays its own caption, handle and buttons over the bottom third — that band is the platform’s, not yours.
Clay and Bone Warm 1200×400 Email Newsletter Header1200 × 400 px1200 × 400 px. Email clients block images by default, so the header carries the masthead and never the offer — anything that must be read lives in the HTML underneath it.
Coral and Navy Bold 1080×1080 Instagram Sale Post1080 × 1080 px1080 × 1080 px. A price-led promo, not a quote card — the number is the largest thing on it, which is the whole difference between a post that sells and a post that is admired.
Coral and Navy Modern 1080×1920 Instagram Story Promo1080 × 1920 px1080 × 1920 px. The bottom sixth is left clear because that is where the reply bar and the swipe cue sit — a story with type in that band is a story nobody can read.
Ochre and Ink Bold 1080×1350 Instagram Carousel Cover1080 × 1350 px1080 × 1350 px — the COVER slide, which is a different job from the slides inside it: it has to earn the swipe. It is also center-cropped to a square on the profile grid, so the headline sits inside the central square.
Ochre and Ink Bold 1080×1920 YouTube Shorts Cover1080 × 1920 px1080 × 1920 px, split before-and-after. The seam is dead center so the comparison reads in the half second a Short gets.
Plum and Amber Bold 1080×1080 Instagram Quote Post1080 × 1080 px1080 × 1080 px — the size app.js already offers as "Instagram square post", so a template and a blank agree. Type and shapes only, so it also exports clean as a print square.
Plum and Amber Bold 1200×630 Facebook Event Post1200 × 630 px1200 × 630 px — the landscape feed post, and the same ratio a link preview uses, so one file serves both.
Plum and Amber Bold 1920×1005 Facebook Event Banner1920 × 1005 px1920 × 1005 px. Facebook lays the event name and date over the lower left of this banner in its own type, so the bottom third is left as flat color rather than as artwork it will sit on top of.
Sage and Bone Clean 1000×1500 Pinterest Pin1000 × 1500 px1000 × 1500 px, Pinterest's 2:3 standard pin. The title sits in the top third because that is the part that survives the feed crop.
Sage and Bone Clean 1080×1920 Instagram Story Question1080 × 1920 px1080 × 1920 px with a clear band across the middle for a poll or question sticker, and the bottom sixth left empty for the reply bar. The gap is the design, not an oversight.
Sage and Bone Clean 1600×400 Etsy Shop Cover Banner1600 × 400 px1600 × 400 px. Etsy scales this banner down hard on a phone, so the shop name is set at 48 px — big enough to survive the reduction, which is the only thing this banner has to do.
Slate and Cream Professional 1200×627 LinkedIn Hiring Post1200 × 627 px1200 × 627 px. Light ground on purpose — a LinkedIn feed is white, and a dark card reads as an advertisement rather than as a post.
Teal and Gold Editorial 1080×1080 Instagram New Arrival Post1080 × 1080 px1080 × 1080 px, photo-led. The picture takes the top two thirds and the type sits on flat color underneath, so any product shot drops in without the headline landing on a busy area.
Teal and Gold Minimal 1500×500 X Header Banner1500 × 500 px1500 × 500 px. The avatar overlaps the lower left and the profile text sits under it, so the banner carries one line and a mark — anything more is hidden or read at a glance and lost.
Teal and Gold Minimal 1640×856 Facebook Group Cover1640 × 856 px1640 × 856 px. Everything important is kept inside the central 60% — Facebook crops this banner differently on every device and the edges are the first thing it takes.Sized in pixels, because nothing here touches paper
Every other category on this site is measured in inches, because it gets cut. These are measured in pixels, because the platform is going to display them at an exact size and then resample them. There is no trim, no bleed and no DPI target that means anything — a screen has no inches.
That changes one practical thing: the resolution check on these templates is judged against the screen target, not against 300. A photograph that would be flagged as too soft on a printed card passes here, because at 1080 pixels wide it genuinely is fine. The app judges every document against its own target rather than a fixed number, which is why these behave differently and correctly.
The safe area is the whole job
A social template is mostly a cropping problem, and the crop is different on every surface.
- A feed post gets cropped. A 1080 × 1350 portrait post shows in full in the feed and as a center square in the profile grid. Anything in the top or bottom fifth is invisible on the grid.
- A story has furniture over it. The top of a 1080 × 1920 story carries the account name and progress bars; the bottom carries the reply box, and on some surfaces a link sticker. Keep everything meaningful in the middle roughly 1080 × 1420.
- A channel banner is the extreme case. YouTube channel art is uploaded at 2560 × 1440 and the part guaranteed to be visible on every device is only about 1546 × 423 in the middle. Put the channel name there and treat the rest as background that mobile will never see.
- A profile picture is cropped to a circle. Corners are gone. Anything that fills the square is losing about 21% of its area.
The templates draw these zones. The single most common social design error is not a bad layout — it is a good layout with the important part in a region that gets cut.
Legibility on a phone, at the size it is actually seen
A feed post is roughly two and a half inches tall on a phone held at arm's length. That is smaller than the thumbnail in the grid above, and it is the size every decision should be checked at.
Two rules that hold up: no more than about eight words at the largest size, and no type below roughly 3% of the image height — on a 1080-tall post, that is around 32 pixels, and anything under it is decoration. The instinct to add a second and third line of supporting text is almost always wrong; the supporting text belongs in the caption, which is free, unlimited and searchable.
Export format, and why the file gets bigger than you expect
Use PNG for anything with type or flat color, and JPEG for anything that is mostly a photograph. That is not a preference — a JPEG compresses by discarding high-contrast edge detail, and the highest-contrast edges in any design are the letters. Type on a JPEG at moderate quality picks up a visible halo, particularly saturated type on a saturated field.
Every platform re-compresses whatever you upload, so upload the cleanest version you have and let them degrade it once rather than twice. Uploading an already-compressed JPEG means the artifacts compound.
The one thing print people get wrong here, and the reverse
Coming from print, the instinct is to design at 300 DPI and scale down. Do not — design at the pixel size, because the pixel size is the actual size. A 1080 × 1080 post is 1080 × 1080, full stop.
Coming the other way is worse: a social graphic will not print. A 1080 × 1080 post is 3.6 inches square at 300 DPI, and it looks exactly like what it is if someone puts it on a flyer. If a design needs to do both jobs, build the print version first at its real trim, then export a screen-sized copy from it. Going the other direction never works.
Questions
What size should an Instagram post be?
1080 × 1350 pixels for a portrait post, which takes the most feed space, or 1080 × 1080 for a square. Both crop to a center square in the profile grid, so keep anything essential out of the top and bottom fifth.
What size is a story?
1080 × 1920 pixels. Keep the important content within the middle 1080 × 1420 — the top carries the account name and progress bars and the bottom carries the reply box, and both sit over your design.
Why do these have no bleed?
Because nothing is being cut. Bleed exists so a trimming blade has somewhere to be wrong, and a screen has no blade. What replaces it here is the safe area, which is where the platform's own interface sits over your image.
Does DPI matter for social media?
No. A screen has no inches, so pixels per inch is meaningless — only the pixel dimensions matter. The app judges photographs against the document's own target, which is why a picture flagged as too soft for print passes here.
Should I export PNG or JPEG?
PNG for type and flat color, JPEG for photographs. JPEG compression damages exactly the high-contrast edges that letters are made of, and the platform will compress your file again on upload, so give it the cleanest version you have.
What size is a YouTube channel banner?
Upload at 2560 × 1440, and keep everything essential inside the middle 1546 × 423 — that is the only region guaranteed to be visible on every device. Everything outside it is background that most viewers never see.
Can I print a social media template?
Not usefully. A 1080 × 1080 post is 3.6 inches square at 300 DPI and will look soft at any real print size. Build the print version first at a real trim and export a screen copy from it; the reverse never works.
Why does my text look fuzzy after uploading?
Because the platform re-compressed it, and compression hits letterforms hardest. Upload a PNG rather than a JPEG for anything type-heavy, and upload at the exact size the platform asks for so it does not resample as well as recompress.
Can I use these for a business account?
Yes, including commercially, on the free plan — no watermark, no royalty, no credit, and it does not expire. That covers client work as well as your own accounts.