Pinterest board cover size
600 × 600px
Aspect ratio
1:1
Board covers display as squares — design a 600 × 600-safe image, or pick a pin whose center survives a square crop.
Last verified June 2026
Board covers are the shop-window shelf of your Pinterest profile: a visitor deciding whether to follow sees a wall of square tiles before any individual pin. Pinterest publishes no exact cover dimension — covers are chosen from pins already saved to the board and displayed as square crops — so the practical spec is a square-safe design. 600 × 600 px is the commonly recommended working size; a standard 1000 × 1500 pin also works if its central square carries the message.
| Variant | Dimensions | Ratio |
|---|---|---|
| Cover design (recommended) | 600 × 600 pxCommonly recommended working size — Pinterest publishes no official number. | 1:1 |
| Source pin | 1000 × 1500 pxCovers come from the board’s pins; the display crops to the central square. | 2:3 |
| Display size | variesRendered at different tile sizes across desktop, mobile, and profile layouts. | 1:1 |
Because the cover is a square crop taken from a (usually 2:3) pin, the top and bottom thirds of the source image vanish. Whatever identifies the board — the keyword, the icon, the representative photo — must live in the central square. Tiles render small on mobile profiles, so treat covers like app icons: one word or one subject, high contrast, no fine detail.
The cleanest covers aren’t repurposed content pins — they’re purpose-built brand tiles. Design a square-centered template (board keyword in large type, your brand colors, optional icon), export one per board, pin each to its board, and set it as the cover. Ten minutes of work turns a chaotic profile into something that reads like a curated catalog.
Board names and descriptions are search surface; covers are decoration. A beautiful cover on a board named “Inspo ✨” loses to a plain cover on “Small Bathroom Remodel Ideas” every time someone searches. Name boards the way people search, then let the matching cover confirm the promise visually.
Covers don’t feed the algorithm — pins do — so there’s no engagement reason to churn them. A sensible cadence is a seasonal pass: update covers when your palette, offers, or featured categories change, and spend the rest of your Pinterest time producing and scheduling fresh pins, which is what actually grows reach.
Covers display as squares cropped from a pin on the board. Pinterest publishes no exact dimension; designing a 600 × 600 px square (or a standard pin with a square-safe center) is the reliable approach.
No — you choose the cover from pins already saved to the board. To control the look, design a dedicated square-centered cover pin, save it to the board, and select it in the board’s edit settings.
The display crops to the central square of the chosen pin, so content near the top or bottom of a 2:3 pin disappears. Re-center the key elements or use a purpose-built square cover pin.
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