Facebook cover size - 1px too small?

**Jonopen** · 25 June 2018, 04:47 PM

I believe the optimal size for a Facebook cover image should be 851 pixels wide and 315 pixels tall. The one called 'Facebook Cover' offered in the design gallery is 851 x 314 pixels.

**mwenz** · 25 June 2018, 05:02 PM

https://www.facebook.com/CoverPhotoSize/

FB has a habit of changing things. The gallery items in Xara applications should be updated frequently...isn't that the premise?

**gwpriester** · 25 June 2018, 05:31 PM

From Facebook

Loads fastest as an sRGB JPG file that's 851 pixels wide, 315 pixels tall and less than 100 kilobytes

FB has a habit of changing things. The gallery items in Xara applications should be updated frequently...isn't that the premise?

**Acorn** · 25 June 2018, 06:22 PM

Jono, go on live dangerously.
Stretch the image the extra pixel and adjust the page height the same.
We won't tell.

The question that should be asked of Xara is where is the smartphone Variant?

Acorn

**mwenz** · 25 June 2018, 07:27 PM

Oops. I've only done groups and businesses. Group images use the dimensions at the link I gave. And those have changed over time quite frequently and can be sized for retina screens (so at 2x). Heck, there are 5 or so different cover image sizes depending on the type of group, etc.

Just looked at personal pages. These too can be larger than what will be displayed and then moved around for best positioning.

**Jonopen** · 26 June 2018, 07:39 AM

Yes, I know 1px sounds terribly picky, but I suppose I just wanted to let Xara/Magix know we do notice these little inconsistencies and care enough to point them out.

I've not been through them all, but interestingly, the one called 'businesscase_facebook_cover.xar' is actually 851x315px.

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Acorn, I do live dangerously, only yesterday I bought some of those funny sports socks that only go up to your ankles!