Header art that fits.
X 1500×500. LinkedIn 1584×396. YouTube 2560×1440. Drop a photo, type a headline, pick a face. Every preset carries its own safe area and its own profile-photo keep-out, and your type is laid out inside them — so the file you upload is not cropped into nonsense. Nothing uploads. For full brand systems, grab a real design tool.
Make a banner for X, LinkedIn or YouTube
Make an X header at 1500 × 500, a LinkedIn cover at 1584 × 396, or YouTube channel art at 2560 × 1440, with the type laid out inside that platform's safe area.
What you can change
- Platform
- Show the safe area
- Headline
- Subline
- Font
- Alignment
- Type colour
- Darken the photo
- Shade behind the type
How it works
- 01Drop in a photo, or open one of the samples.
- 02Pick the platform, write a headline and a subline, and choose the font and alignment. Set the type colour, darken the photo, or put a shade behind the words — and turn on the safe area to see where the profile photo covers the banner.
- 03Download it at full resolution. Nothing is uploaded — the work happens in this browser tab.
Sizing the banner…
Make a banner for X, LinkedIn or YouTube
Make an X header at 1500 × 500, a LinkedIn cover at 1584 × 396, or YouTube channel art at 2560 × 1440, with the type laid out inside that platform's safe area.
What you can change
- Platform
- Show the safe area
- Headline
- Subline
- Font
- Alignment
- Type colour
- Darken the photo
- Shade behind the type
How it works
- 01Drop in a photo, or open one of the samples.
- 02Pick the platform, write a headline and a subline, and choose the font and alignment. Set the type colour, darken the photo, or put a shade behind the words — and turn on the safe area to see where the profile photo covers the banner.
- 03Download it at full resolution. Nothing is uploaded — the work happens in this browser tab.
Sizing the banner…
Six places header art still matters
- 01 for X
A header that says what you actually do
Default X headers say nothing. Drop a relevant photo, put your name or the thing you are known for in the serif headline, and use the subline for what you do or where to find you. Reads as 'someone with a thing to say' rather than 'someone with a default avatar'.
- 02 for linkedin
A LinkedIn cover that's neither stock nor blank
LinkedIn covers are the most-skipped piece of personal-brand real estate. Drop a photo of where you work, write your title and what you do in Inter Black, set photo-darken to 40% so the text reads. Beats both 'blank' and 'unsplash skyline'.
- 03 for youtube
YouTube channel art that fills correctly on every device
YouTube channel art is brutal — 2560×1440 source, but only the central 1546×423 shows on phones. The preview washes out everything outside that box, and your channel name is laid out inside it whether you think about it or not. The rest is TV bonus.
- 04 for refresh
Quarterly banner refresh in 60 seconds
Banner art gets stale fast. Run your latest project photo through here every quarter — different photo, same template. Updates without redesigning. Lower friction than 'I need to make a new banner', so it actually happens.
- 05 for events
A conference banner during the week of an event
Speaking somewhere? Update your X header with a photo from the venue + 'speaking at [conference] · April 28'. Time-bound but lifts engagement during the week. Revert after.
- 06 for portfolios
A portfolio site's hero header
A 1500-wide banner on top of a personal site needs to read both as image and as type. The banner-mode here is exactly that ratio — drop in a hero photo, write your name + tagline. Save for use as og:image too.
Frequently asked
Does the photo upload anywhere? +
No. The banner renders to a canvas in your browser. Your photo never touches our servers — we don't run an image pipeline at all.
What's the YouTube safe area? +
YouTube banners are uploaded at 2560×1440, but only the central 1546×423 is visible on phones and desktop. The rest shows on TVs. The preview darkens everything outside that box and the tool lays your name and tagline inside it, so it survives the crop. X and LinkedIn get the same treatment, plus a circle showing where each site paints your profile photo over the banner.
Can I add a logo image? +
Not in v1 — text only. For a logo, run your logo image through Add Text to Photo or composite manually in your design tool of choice. Or upload a photo with your logo already embedded.
Why is text white by default? +
Most photos read best with white type once there's shade behind it. There's a scrim on the side your type sits on for exactly that; turn it off and use ink (#2C2825) if your photo is pale and you want the photo untouched.
How do I change the photo position? +
There is no pan control. The photo is cover-fitted: centred left to right, and biased a touch above centre vertically, which is where horizons and faces usually sit. For exact framing, crop to the banner's aspect first in Crop & Resize (3:1 for X, 4:1 for LinkedIn, 16:9 for YouTube) and bring that here.
Twitter or X — same banner spec? +
Yes. X kept the 1500×500 header spec it had as Twitter. Re-checked on 21 August 2026: LinkedIn's own help page still gives 1584×396 (4:1) for the profile background photo, JPG or PNG under 8MB. YouTube publishes a 2048×1152 minimum with a 1235×338 safe area for text and logos, which scales to 1544×423 at the 2560×1440 it recommends — the 1546×423 the tool draws is that box to within two pixels.
now what?
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