Make a LinkedIn share image
LinkedIn’s large link preview is 1200×627 — three pixels shorter than Facebook’s number, same 1.91∶1 idea. The inspector (linkedin.com/post-inspector) is how you see what their crawler actually stored. This page makes the file that inspector should find.
Template properties
The copy and marks on the card. Files stay on this device.
Background
Gradient or solid, then direction, grid and grain.
Gradient direction
1200×627 · LinkedIn share preview
How it works
- 1Write a headline a hiring manager would understand at 400 pixels wide — company plus claim, not a sentence of thought leadership — and drop the mark in the logo slot.
- 2Stay with the centered or notice layout; LinkedIn’s crop is modest, but the feed already supplies chrome, so a quiet card reads as intentional.
- 3Download the 1200×627 PNG, host it, set og:image on the article, and confirm the scrape in LinkedIn’s Post Inspector before you post the link.
The size, honestly
Reuse a 1200×630 OG file and LinkedIn will display it; they scale. I still keep a 1200×627 canvas here because article posts and company-page shares get inspected by people who searched “linkedin image size”, and because LinkedIn’s crop is slightly tighter on the vertical. For the generic protocol page use Generate an Open Graph image. For Facebook’s cache ritual, Facebook OG Image Maker. For a personal brand banner rather than a link card, that is X Header Image Generator.
| Canvas | 1200×627 px |
|---|---|
| Ratio | 1.91∶1 |
| Used by | LinkedIn share preview |
| Export | PNG, composed in this tab |
Frequently asked questions
No — that is the whole reason I built this. The conversion runs in your browser using WebAssembly, so your files never leave your device; there is no server in the loop at all. It also means the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded, and there is no file size limit beyond your device’s memory.
1200×627 is the size LinkedIn documents for article and link shares (1.91∶1). Company-page cover images and personal backgrounds are different crops entirely — do not reuse this file there. For a link you paste into the feed, 1200×627 (or 1200×630) is the one that fills the large preview.
Usually the crawler never saw a public og:image: the file is 403, the page requires login, or you tested on a staging host that LinkedIn cannot reach. Run the public URL through linkedin.com/post-inspector. LinkedIn also refuses images smaller than about 200px on the short edge, which is why a favicon-sized accident produces an empty card.
Yes — Post Inspector re-scrapes on demand. Like Facebook, LinkedIn keys the image cache on the image URL, so replace the file and keep the same path only if you are patient; a new filename or ?v= query is faster. There is no public “purge” API. Plan for a few minutes of lag after you publish.
No. LinkedIn is an Open Graph consumer: og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url. twitter:* tags are ignored. If you only set twitter:image, LinkedIn will invent a preview from some other img on the page — often the logo in the header, which is how you end up with a 120-pixel square in the feed.
It should be quieter. LinkedIn’s feed already shouts; a high-contrast meme card next to a Series B announcement looks accidental. I default this page to the centered layout and the paper or ink backgrounds, and I keep the title to a headline plus a product name. Save the sunset gradient for Discord Embed Image Maker.
PNG for anything with type or a logo. LinkedIn compresses on their side regardless, and a 200 KB PNG survives that second compression better than a busy JPEG that was already quantized. Photo-only cards can go JPG via PNG to JPG if you are counting kilobytes on a marketing site.
Related tools
Generate an Open Graph image
Make a 1200×630 Open Graph PNG in your browser — free, no upload. Title, logo and background stay on the device; download the file when it looks right.
Make a Facebook Open Graph image
Design a 1200×630 Facebook share image in your browser. No upload — Facebook’s Debugger caches, this page does not. Download a PNG and host it yourself.
Make a Twitter card image
Compose a 1200×628 X / Twitter summary_large_image in your browser. No upload, no account — type, logo and photo stay on the device until you download the PNG.
Make a Discord embed image
Design the 1200×630 image Discord shows when a link is pasted. Runs in the browser — no bot, no webhook, no upload. Download a PNG and point og:image at it.