Pinterest Pin Size Guide 2026

Get the size wrong on Pinterest and the platform quietly fixes it for you — by cropping the top or bottom off your design, shrinking it next to bigger pins, or cutting your title in half. Getting it right takes ten seconds once you know the numbers. Here they are.

Every Pinterest pin size at a glance

Pinterest updates its specs from time to time, so treat this as a working guide and check Pinterest’s own creative specifications before a big campaign. The 2:3 standard pin has been the stable recommendation for years.

Why 2:3 is the ratio to use

The home feed is a grid of fixed-width columns. Width is the same for every pin, so the only way to take up more space is height. A 2:3 pin is tall enough to dominate its column but not so tall that Pinterest truncates it. That makes it the sweet spot between visibility and getting cropped.

There is a practical reason too: 2:3 matches the shape of most phone photos held vertically, and most Pinterest browsing happens on phones. A vertical photo drops into a 2:3 frame with almost no cropping, so you lose less of your subject.

What “2:3” means in pixels

Height is 1.5 × the width. 1000×1500, 800×1200 and 600×900 are all 2:3. Bigger is not automatically better — Pinterest compresses uploads — but go below 600 pixels wide and text starts to look soft on modern screens. 1000×1500 is the comfortable default.

Sizes for story-format and square pins

1080×1920 (9:16) fills a phone screen and suits step-by-step or full-screen content. In grid views it can be shown cropped toward 2:3, so keep your title and key subject in the middle two-thirds of the frame. Use the story pin maker to export this size.

1000×1000 (1:1) is the right choice for board covers and for product photos already shot square. It gets less feed space than a 2:3 pin, so for traffic-driving pins prefer vertical. The square pin maker and board cover maker both export 1000×1000.

Text-safe zones

• Keep titles at least 60–70 px from each edge on a 1000 px wide pin.
• Avoid the bottom-right corner on mobile, where Pinterest overlays its own buttons.
• On 9:16 pins, keep text inside the central 1080×1440 area so a 2:3 crop doesn’t cut it.
• Aim for titles of 3–8 words. Pins are viewed at roughly 230 px wide in the feed — if you can’t read it at that size, it’s too small.

Common sizing mistakes

Uploading landscape images

A 16:9 blog header shows up as a thin strip in the feed. If your post only has landscape photos, use a collage layout to stack two of them into a vertical pin.

Designing too tall

The “giraffe pins” of a few years ago (1000×3000 and longer) now get truncated. Split long content into a carousel or several pins instead.

Tiny text

A title that looks fine on a 27-inch monitor is unreadable on a phone. Quick Pin Maker auto-sizes your title to fill the width, which is the easiest fix.

Get the right size automatically

Every pin you make in Quick Pin Maker starts at 1000×1500. Switch the size to 1080×1920 or 1000×1000 and the layout reflows — photos re-crop, the title re-fits — so you never have to rebuild a design. Need to fit an existing photo? The Pinterest image resizer crops any image to 2:3 in one step.