Pinterest Pin Image Size: 1000×1500, Text Overlay and Logos

Published 17 October 2026 · by Tekiba

What Pinterest's pages say about size

We read Pinterest's help article Review ad specs, its Ads overview and its business page of creative best practices on the publication date above. The same sentence appears on more than one of them:

We recommend using a 2:3 aspect ratio, or 1000 x 1500 pixels.

The ad specs then say what happens to a taller image:

Pins with an aspect ratio greater than 2:3 might get cut off in people's feeds.

and the ads overview puts a harder line further out:

Pins that exceed a 2:4.2 width-height ratio will be truncated in people's feeds.

The best-practices page gives the reason for the shape and an option for photos that are not already vertical:

Most people use Pinterest on mobile devices, so aim for a vertical 2:3 aspect ratio.

You can easily repurpose square assets using borders or vertical imagery.

Three things follow, and they are easy to mix up.

• 2:3 is a recommendation, not a requirement. Pinterest's own Pin editor offers five shapes, from the tall 9:16 down to the square. A square or 3:4 Pin is shorter than 2:3, so the warning below is not about it, though no page we read promises that any shape is shown uncut. It does take up less of the screen.
• Taller is the risk. "Greater than 2:3" means taller for the same width. A 9:16 phone screenshot is taller than 2:3 and is the kind of image the warning is about.
• There is no minimum width on these pages. None of the three pages we read gives a smallest width for an image Pin; they name a recommended size and a file-size ceiling. 1000 wide is the figure to aim for, and a smaller file is not refused on any page we found, only not recommended.

Where Pinterest says text goes

The creative best-practices page describes a layout rather than a font size. It suggests "putting visuals in the middle, then stacking text overlay with key messaging at the top" and "extra details at the bottom". Pinterest's Fundamentals page for creators adds:

Format your Pins vertically, and keep important details easy to see on small screens.

Not all Pins need text on the image or video, but for some types of content, it can be helpful to emphasize the idea and encourage people to click on it.

Ensure your content remains unobstructed by UI elements by staying within the safe zone.

The help article Review Pin specs gives that safe zone for image Pins as margins: 270 px at the top, 65 px at the left, 195 px at the right and 790 px at the bottom. It does not say what size of image or which view those are measured against, so they cannot be laid over a 1000-wide Pin as they stand; taken literally on a 1000×1333 Pin, the top and bottom figures alone would leave very little in between. We report them, and do not lay a Pin out by them. The way to know where the app's controls fall on your Pin is to look at it in Pinterest's own preview.

None of these pages gives a smallest readable font size, so the test is the one they name: a small screen. A Pin is shown much narrower than 1000 wide in a phone's feed, so a line that reads comfortably on your monitor can be a smudge there. Look at the Pin at phone size before you publish, keep a headline short enough to set large, and move anything that sits under a button in the preview.

Logos and watermarks on a Pin

Pinterest wants your brand on the image. The best-practices page says:

Your logo or brand name should be clearly visible on every ad.

and immediately adds "just be sure it doesn’t overtake the ad". The Fundamentals page, in its tips for reposting work made for another site, draws the other line:

Remove watermarks/logos from other platforms.

So a mark of your own is expected, and a mark left over from somewhere else (another app's logo burned into a reposted video or photo) is not. A small logo or name near the top, beside the headline where the best-practices page puts key messaging and pulled in from the edges, fits both lines; check in the preview that nothing of the app's sits over it. A large mark tiled across the picture is the "overtake" the page warns about, and it hides the very thing the Pin is meant to show.

A mark on a Pin is also a credit as much as a defence. Pins are saved and re-pinned away from your board, and a name on the image travels with it. It still only discourages copying; anyone can crop or paint over one.

Preparing a batch of Pins in your browser

SignetDrop resizes, pads and marks; it does not crop, and 2:3 is not one of its shapes. What that means in practice:

1. Start from vertical photos where you can. Most camera photos taken upright are already 2:3. On the free version, set Resize to Width and the amount to 1000: a 4000×6000 upright camera photo comes out at 1000×1500, Pinterest's size exactly, and a 3024×4032 upright phone photo comes out at 1000×1333, a 3:4 Pin, shorter than the 2:3 that Pinterest's warning is about. Nothing is enlarged.

2. Give square and landscape photos a border. This is the "borders" option from Pinterest's page, and it is a paid setting here. A square sized to 1000px on its long edge and then set to 3:4 comes out as 1000×1333, and a 4032×3024 photo sized to 1000px on its long edge and then set to 3:4 comes out as 1000×1333 too, with the whole photo in the middle and a band of your background colour above and below. That band is a natural place for a line of text added later.

3. Place the mark at the top centre. Pick the top middle anchor, keep the size modest and pull it in from the edge with the margin setting, so it sits with the headline rather than over the subject, then check one Pin in Pinterest's preview. SignetDrop sizes a text mark as a share of the output width, so the same setting looks the same across the batch.

4. Add the headline in your Pin editor. SignetDrop draws one mark per photo; it is not a layout tool for headlines. Pinterest's own editor has a text layer for that.

The photos never leave your machine: they are drawn onto a canvas in the page, saved again and put into a ZIP built in the tab. By default the copies carry no EXIF, so no GPS location goes to Pinterest with them.

What this does not do

It prepares the image you upload. It does not crop to 2:3, write your headline or post the Pin, and how Pinterest shows a Pin is Pinterest's decision, not ours; its pages can change, and the ones above are about ads as much as ordinary Pins. Set shapes and output above 2048px are in the paid version, $29 once, with the full split on the pricing panel, and SignetDrop never writes its own name onto your photos.

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