The spec sheet · every crop, every device
LinkedIn banner size: 1584 x 396, and the parts nobody warns you about
Published August 28, 2026
TL;DR
1584 x 396 pixels (a 4:1 ratio), 8MB max, JPG or PNG. That's the whole official spec for a personal profile.
The crops are the real spec. Your profile photo covers the bottom-left, about a sixth of the banner width on desktop and nearly a quarter on mobile.
Keep anything that must be read in the upper-right two thirds. The bottom-left quadrant is photo territory.
Company pages are different: 1128 x 191, with different overlap.
Preview yours in every crop with the free Banner Checker before you upload.
Every guide gives you the same two numbers and moves on. Then you upload a banner at exactly 1584 x 396 and LinkedIn still hides the left corner under your profile photo, trims the edges on odd screen widths, and compresses your crisp type into soup.
This page is the full spec: the numbers, where each crop actually bites, and the pixel regions you can safely use. If you'd rather just see your own banner in every crop, the free Banner Checker does this visually in ten seconds.
The exact numbers (2026)
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Personal profile banner | 1584 x 396 px (4:1 ratio) |
| Company page banner | 1128 x 191 px |
| Maximum file size | 8 MB |
| Accepted formats | JPG, PNG |
| Displayed size | varies by device; design at exactly 1584 x 396 |
Upload at exactly 1584 x 396. Smaller images get scaled up, which is the single most common reason banners look blurry. Bigger is fine; off-ratio is not, because LinkedIn will crop it to 4:1 without asking which part you cared about.
Where the crops actually bite
The published spec describes the canvas. It says nothing about what sits on top of it. Two things do.
Desktop: the photo takes the bottom-left
On a desktop profile, your profile photo overlaps the banner's bottom edge, anchored left, covering roughly a sixth of the banner's width and the lower half of its height in that corner. Any text or logo placed there is simply gone.
Mobile: the photo gets greedier
On the phone app the same photo covers close to a quarter of the banner width, and the banner itself renders shorter, so vertical margins shrink. A layout that survives desktop can still die on mobile, and most of your profile visits are mobile.
The safe zone, in pixels
Working at the full 1584 x 396 canvas, keep anything that must be read inside roughly x = 500 to 1500 and y = 40 to 320. In practice: the upper-right two thirds. The bottom-left quadrant belongs to your profile photo, and the outer 40 pixels on each edge can shave off on unusual screen widths. Center-weighting your key message slightly right of the midline survives every crop I've tested.
The one-glance test: shrink your banner to thumbnail size. If the one thing it needs to say is unreadable, or hiding behind where the photo goes, no dimension spec will save it. What to actually put there is its own decision, covered in 7 banner concepts that work.
Why your banner looks blurry
LinkedIn recompresses every upload. You can't switch that off, but you can stop making it worse. Three fixes cover nearly every blurry banner: upload at exactly 1584 x 396 instead of letting a smaller image scale up, keep text large (about 40px and up at full canvas size) with strong contrast, and export PNG for flat graphics and text, or a quality-85-plus JPG for photographic banners.
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Questions people keep asking
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Keep going: 7 banner concepts matched to goals, the profile photo the banner sits behind, or run the whole profile through the free 8-Second Test.