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Profile Picture Templates
Avatars at 500 × 500 pixels, square, with the circle crop drawn on the page — because you upload a square and almost every platform displays a circle, and the corners of your design are simply gone.
No templates match that.
Design inside the circle
Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Facebook and most others crop an avatar to a circle. A square logo that fits its frame exactly loses all four corners; a wordmark that reaches the edges loses its first and last letters.
The usable area is the inscribed circle, and comfortably inside it at that. The template draws it so you can see what survives.
It is displayed at about 40 pixels
This is the number that should drive every decision here. In a feed, a comment or a message list, an avatar is roughly 32 to 48 pixels wide — smaller than the text next to it.
At that size a full wordmark is a smudge. What works is one letter, one symbol, or a face cropped tight enough that the face fills the circle. Anything with three or more elements is noise.
The 500 × 500 file exists so it stays sharp on a profile page and on a high-density screen. It is not the size anybody judges it at, and judging your own design at full size is how unreadable avatars get made.
One avatar, everywhere
An avatar is the one image worth keeping identical across every platform. It is how somebody recognizes you in a list, and changing it per platform throws that away for no benefit.
Make one, use it everywhere, and change it rarely.
Questions
What size is a profile picture?
500 × 500 pixels square is a safe universal size. Platforms display avatars at wildly different sizes but almost all accept a square upload and crop it to a circle.
Why do the corners of my logo disappear?
Because the platform crops your square to a circle. Design inside the inscribed circle, with margin.
How small is an avatar actually shown?
Roughly 32 to 48 pixels in a feed or comment thread. Design for that, not for the 500-pixel canvas.
Should I use my logo or a photo?
A photo for a personal account, a single letter or symbol for a brand. A full wordmark does not survive at 40 pixels.
Should I use the same one on every platform?
Yes. Recognition in a list is the avatar's whole job, and consistency is what makes it work.
Can I use these commercially?
Yes, including for clients. No royalty, no credit, and the permission does not expire. That is true on the free plan as well as the paid one.