LinkedIn Banner Maker

About this tool

A LinkedIn cover banner is the wide image at the top of your profile, sitting behind the profile picture and name plate. LinkedIn displays it at 1584×396 px on desktop (verified May 2026), with the lower-left ~150 px circle covered by the profile photo and a translucent name-plate panel running across the lower portion. This tool gives you a live 1584×396 canvas, separate fields for headline and tagline, a background mode switch (color / gradient / image), independent text controls, and a safe-zone overlay marking both the profile-photo cutout and name-plate region. Type your role, add a tagline (open to roles, value prop, or contact), pick brand colors, and download a PNG sized exactly for LinkedIn. No signup, no watermark, no server upload. Useful for senior IC profiles, founders, sales reps, and anyone whose LinkedIn header is currently the default blue.

Why use it

• Exact LinkedIn Spec — 1584×396 px: The output matches LinkedIn's documented banner dimensions, so the platform serves your image at native resolution without down-scaling artifacts.

• Profile-Photo and Name-Plate Safe Zones: A toggleable overlay marks both the profile-photo cutout (lower-left circle) and the name-plate panel that LinkedIn overlays across the bottom of the banner.

• Color, Gradient, or Photo Background: Solid for typography-driven headers, two-stop gradient for B2B brand banners, image upload for company-photo backed profiles. Switch instantly without losing data.

• Independent Headline and Tagline Controls: Both text layers have separate font size and color pickers, so you can build hierarchy without templates or design tokens.

• Browser-Only — Nothing Uploaded: Background uploads run through FileReader, compositing happens on Canvas, and PNG export uses canvas.toBlob — all 100% local. No tracking, no upload to a server.

• Free, Unlimited, No Watermark: Iterate on a banner refresh as many times as needed. No daily quota, no UtilityKit watermark on the output.

How to use

1. Type your role or value-prop into the Headline field — short, scannable copy reads best at 1584×396.
2. Use the Tagline field for a one-liner: open to roles, niche, or a quick credential.
3. Switch Background mode between solid color, gradient, or upload — gradient is a strong default for B2B.
4. Pick title and tagline colors with the pickers — keep contrast high against the background.
5. Toggle the safe-zone overlay to see the profile-photo circle and name-plate region — keep important content above and to the right.
6. Click Download PNG — the export is clean 1584×396 with the overlay automatically removed.

When it helps

• When updating your LinkedIn profile after a promotion or job change, and you want to signal the new role.
• When opening yourself up to recruiter outreach and need a banner that says 'open to senior IC roles'.
• When founders launch a new product and the cofounder team aligns on a banner refresh that points to the launch URL.
• When sales reps build pipeline and want a banner that signals their patch (territory + product line).
• When brand teams roll out a new visual identity and need every employee to refresh their LinkedIn cover quickly.
• When event speakers update their banner the week before a conference to advertise their talk.

Examples

Tips

• Sizes verified May 2026. Check platform docs if you're seeing display issues — LinkedIn last changed banner dimensions in 2017 and is stable.
• Mobile crops the banner more aggressively at the top and bottom — keep critical text in the central horizontal band.
• B2B audiences read serif and high-contrast sans-serif headlines best — avoid hyper-stylized fonts.
• If you upload a busy photo background, use bold title weights and a high-contrast text color — the tool has no overlay layer, and switching to gradient mode replaces the photo.
• The recommended LinkedIn cover photo file size is under 8 MB; PNG export from this tool is well under that.

Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary

Safe zone

The area of a banner that's never covered by platform UI (profile photo, name plate, navigation overlays). Important text and logos belong inside the safe zone so all viewers can see them.

Aspect ratio

The width-to-height ratio of a banner. LinkedIn banners are 4:1 (1584:396), and any image with a different ratio is cover-cropped by LinkedIn on upload.

DPI vs px

Web platforms render based on pixel dimensions, not DPI. A 1584×396 PNG looks identical regardless of its DPI metadata — LinkedIn only checks the px count.

Transparent zone

Areas of the banner that LinkedIn covers with overlays — the profile photo (~155 px circle, lower-left) and the name-plate panel (lower portion). Treat these as no-go for important text.

Name plate

The translucent or opaque panel containing your name, headline, and connection info that overlays the lower portion of the LinkedIn banner. Width varies by viewport.

Cover-fit scaling

An image-scaling strategy that fills the entire canvas while preserving aspect ratio, cropping the overflow. Used here for uploaded backgrounds that don't match LinkedIn's 4:1 ratio.