Pinterest pin size
1000 × 1500px
Aspect ratio
2:3
Use 1000 × 1500 px (2:3) for standard pins — Pinterest’s official recommendation, and the tallest shape that displays reliably without truncation.
Last verified June 2026
Pinterest behaves more like a visual search engine than a social feed: pins keep surfacing in search and related-pin recommendations for months, so the dimensions you pick today follow the asset for its whole life. Pinterest’s own product specs recommend a 2:3 aspect ratio at 1000 × 1500 px. That shape claims maximum height in the masonry grid without tripping the truncation that can clip pins taller than 2:3 in feeds.
| Variant | Dimensions | Ratio |
|---|---|---|
| Standard pin (recommended) | 1000 × 1500 pxPinterest’s official recommendation in its product specs. | 2:3 |
| High-res export | 1080 × 1620 pxSame ratio at slightly higher resolution — fine if your source art is sharp. | 2:3 |
| Square pin | 1000 × 1000 pxAllowed, but gives up vertical space in the masonry feed. | 1:1 |
| Extra-tall pin | 1000 × 2100 pxRisky — pins taller than 2:3 can be cut off in feeds; keep critical content near the top if you try it. | 1:2.1 |
The feed shows pins in narrow columns — a few hundred pixels wide on desktop, narrower on phones — so anything that must be read at feed size needs to be big. Keep text overlays inside the central 80% of the canvas: Pinterest can round corners and overlay save/visit buttons on hover, and pins taller than 2:3 lose their bottom edge in some feed placements. Put the payoff (the headline, the product) in the upper two-thirds so it survives every crop.
Most pin impressions come from search and recommendations, not your followers. That changes the design brief: a pin is a search result, so the image must communicate the topic instantly — a clear text overlay (4–8 words, high contrast), one focal subject, and a title front-loaded with the keyword in its first 40 characters. Treat the 800-character description as indexable copy: write it like a meta description, not a caption.
A 16:9 blog header letterboxed onto a 2:3 canvas wastes the format’s one advantage — height. Rebuild the asset natively vertical: stack the image on top, headline below, or run the photo full-bleed with the text overlaid. Check legibility at thumbnail width before publishing; if you squint and can’t read the overlay, the feed audience can’t either.
Because pins keep earning impressions for months, Pinterest rewards steady output more than viral timing. Producing several 1000 × 1500 variants per piece of content (different headlines, same link) and scheduling them across weeks is the standard playbook — a scheduler like SocialKit lets you queue those variants alongside the same campaign’s posts on your other platforms.
1000 × 1500 px at a 2:3 aspect ratio — Pinterest’s own recommendation in its product specs. It maximizes height in the feed without risking the truncation that can affect taller pins.
You can upload them, but pins taller than 2:3 can be cut off in feeds, hiding whatever sits at the bottom. If you use an extra-tall canvas, keep the headline and subject in the top two-thirds.
PNG or JPEG, up to 20 MB when uploading on desktop and 32 MB in the mobile app. Titles allow 100 characters (about 40 visible in feeds) and descriptions 800.
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