Pinterest Pin Size 2026: 1000×1500 and What Gets Cropped

The short version

Pinterest is unusually specific about this: use a 2:3 aspect ratio for image Pins — 1000 × 1500 pixels — and 9:16 for video, 1080 × 1920. That one number covers most of what you need to know.

Everything else in this guide is about the second half of the problem: making sure the design you spent time on is the design people actually see, instead of a cropped version of it.

Those are the mechanical specs. They take two minutes to memorise and they are not where most pins fail.

Why 2:3 is the default

Pinterest's feed is a masonry grid: every column has a fixed width, and each Pin's height follows its aspect ratio. A 2:3 Pin therefore occupies roughly one and a half times the vertical space of a square Pin, and about three times that of a landscape one — at no extra cost to you.

That is the whole argument. Taller images get more of the screen. But "taller" has a ceiling, and that ceiling is where people get hurt.

Where your Pin actually gets cropped

A 2:3 canvas is not the only frame your image passes through. Four crops happen after you upload:

1. The feed ceiling. Pins taller than roughly 1:2.1 (about 1000 × 2100 px) get cut off in the grid, with the rest hidden behind a "more" treatment. If you design a long infographic, assume only the top portion is ever seen in the feed — and put the hook there.
2. Related Pins and search thumbnails. These render small and often take a centre crop, so a headline pushed to the very top edge can lose its first line.
3. Mobile overlays. Save and share controls sit over the lower-right corner on phones. Text under them is text nobody reads.
4. Board covers and your profile grid. These crop toward a squarer shape, so the centre of the Pin becomes the thumbnail for your whole board.

The practical rule that survives all four: keep the headline in the top 60% of the canvas, keep every important element inside an 8% margin, and leave the bottom-right corner empty.

The five mistakes we see most

1. Designing only at full size. A pin is browsed at roughly 300 pixels wide on a phone. Shrink your finished design to that width and look at it for one second. If you cannot read the headline, neither can the person scrolling past. This is the single most useful test on this page.

2. Text in a thin or script font. Elegant at full resolution, illegible as a thumbnail. One bold sans for the headline, one clean sans for the supporting line, nothing else.

3. Stretching a square product photo into 2:3. The photo goes soft and the product looks wrong. Crop it, or place it inside a brand-coloured window with the headline above or below — that is what a template is for.

4. Three messages in one Pin. "New arrival", "20% off", and "free shipping" competing for the same glance means none of them lands. One idea per Pin; the other ideas get their own Pins, which is the entire premise of the next article.

5. Exporting 1000 × 1800 "for extra room". The extra 300 pixels are exactly what disappears in the feed. You did not gain space; you moved your call to action into the cropped zone.

Export settings that keep text sharp

• Export at 1000 × 1500, not larger. Pinterest stores and re-serves your file at its own sizes; handing it a 2000 × 3000 export only makes the upload heavier.
• Do not upscale. If the source photo is 800 pixels wide, exporting at 1000 makes a soft image that reads as low quality. Pick a bigger source image or design a layout that uses the photo smaller.
• PNG for type-heavy designs, JPG around 85% for photo-led ones. Pinterest converts uploads for delivery either way; give it a clean source and the loss stays invisible.
• Name the file after the product and the angle — linen-apron-price.png, not final-2.png. You will thank yourself when a folder holds 200 of them.
• Keep one template per layout so the canvas size, margins, and logo position are decided once, not per Pin.

The spec is the easy part

Getting one Pin to 1000 × 1500 takes a minute. Getting two hundred of them to the same spec, with the same logo position, the same two fonts, and a headline that still fits when the product name is long — that is the actual work, and it is why most stores publish three pins a month instead of thirty.

That is the problem PinNiche exists for: paste a product or article URL, scan it, apply your brand template, and export a folder of 1000 × 1500 PNGs that all came off the same grid. You still publish them yourself.

Once the specs are locked in a template, the interesting question becomes what to put on the pins. That is the next one:

• One product page, ten pins: a repeatable Pinterest workflow
• See what a pin pack costs
• How PinNiche turns a URL into a whole pin pack

Checklist before you upload

• Canvas is 1000 × 1500, 2:3 — not 1000 × 1800.
• Headline sits in the top 60% and is readable at 300 px wide.
• All text and logo inside an 8% margin; bottom-right corner clear.
• Two fonts maximum, both sans, headline bold.
• Product photo cropped, not stretched, and at least 1000 px wide at source.
• Exported as PNG (text) or JPG ~85% (photo), under about 1 MB.
• Filename carries the product slug and the angle.

Specs in this article follow Pinterest's published guidance for image and video Pins as of November 2026. Pinterest changes its interfaces often; if a number here ever disagrees with Pinterest's own help centre, trust theirs.