Every social image format we could verify, with the exact pixel dimensions and aspect ratio read from the platform's own documentation. Every row links the source page. Nothing here is copied from a roundup.
We set out to publish a safe-area figure for every format. We could not, and the reason is the single most useful finding in this document: social platforms almost never document safe areas in text.
Across every official page we retrieved, exactly one safe area is stated as a number: TikTok's profile photo, where TikTok says the "key element should be in the center of the 66px*66px-sized image". That is it. TikTok ships its video safe zones as downloadable .zip templates instead of numbers, and states outright that the zone shifts with caption length and add-ons, so no fixed number exists to quote. YouTube's official banner page gives a 2560x1440 minimum and no safe area at all.
This matters because safe-area figures are everywhere. The widely-circulated YouTube banner safe area of 1235x338, and the LinkedIn banner "bottom-left blocked" figure, are not on YouTube's or LinkedIn's documentation. The LinkedIn one traces to Pulse posts written by individual users, which are user-generated content hosted on linkedin.com, not LinkedIn documentation. We excluded both.
So every row below says not documented unless the platform genuinely published one. If you need a safe area, the honest method is to download the platform's own template where it offers one, or mock your design against a real screenshot on a real device. Treat any third-party safe-area number as reverse engineering, useful, but not authority.
Filter by platform. Dimensions are exactly as the source page states them. Where a page gives only an aspect ratio and no pixels, the pixel cell says so rather than inventing a number.
| Platform | Format | Dimensions | Ratio | Safe area | Source (read 2026-07-15) |
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Rows tagged ads come from advertising documentation. For several platforms that is the only place a pixel dimension is published at all: TikTok's consumer help centre states no dimensions, and Instagram's help pages render only in a browser, so the Instagram number below is Meta's ads-guide feed placement spec.
These are usually a good guide for organic posting, and often identical. But they are not the same document, and we are not going to relabel them to make the table look tidier. If a row is tagged, the number is what advertisers are told.
A verified negative is still a finding. We read these pages; they genuinely do not give pixel dimensions. Stop searching for a number that does not exist and design to the limits they do publish.
The gaps are listed because a gap you can see beats a number you cannot trace.
Omitted entirely. Every official path was blocked to us on 2026-07-15: help.x.com returned HTTP 403, business.x.com returned HTTP 402 on every path including the creative ad specifications page, and the docs.x.com media path returned 404. The commonly cited 1200x1200 and 1200x628 figures appeared only in a search-engine snippet, never on a page we read. We will not publish a number we could not open.
Omitted. business.reddithelp.com returned HTTP 401 on all article paths.
Omitted. help.instagram.com renders client-side and returns an empty body to retrieval. A search index of Instagram's own help page suggests 1080x1080 with ratios from 1.91:1 to 4:5, but we could not read it on the page, and it conflicts with the 1440x1800 in Meta's ads guide, which we could read. Two different numbers from the same company is exactly the situation where guessing is worst, so the table carries only the one we verified, tagged as an ads spec.
Omitted. YouTube's official pages state no Shorts dimensions and no banner safe area. Both figures circulate widely. Neither is on YouTube's documentation as of 2026-07-15.
Snapchat's ad-format dimensions are in the table, but its practices article, which a search snippet suggests contains a real safe area ("keep the top 150px and the bottom 330px of your canvas clear"), is a JavaScript-only page that would not render for us. That is the most promising documented safe area on the network and we could not confirm it, so it is not in the table. Facebook's event image article renders as a JavaScript shell. Discord's brand page publishes colours and clearspace but no pixel dimensions. Twitch's help centre would not render.
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Open the rights cheat-sheetEvery figure in this document was retrieved directly from the named platform's own domain on 2026-07-15 and is quoted as that page states it. Where a page stated no figure, this document says so rather than substituting one from a third-party roundup. Platforms revise these specs without notice and without changelogs, so treat the snapshot date as the only guarantee and confirm against the linked source before anything expensive. Compiled by Vincent Wesley Couey for Rinzara. Corrections, or a source page that renders for you but not for us: [email protected].