Blog cover and featured image guides
Sizing, design, formats, and the details that make blog cover, featured, and Open Graph images look sharp everywhere they appear.
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The Bold Button Is Faking It
Ask a font for a bold weight it never shipped, and the browser fakes one rather than refuse. What synthetic bold actually does to your letterforms, and the CSS line that catches it before export.
Profile Banner Sizes for X, LinkedIn, and YouTube
One brand, four hostile aspect ratios. The sizes, the safe zones, and how to design a banner that survives every crop - with the two specs most guides still have wrong.
Should Your Blog Use AVIF Yet?
The support excuse is gone and the compression is real - but your cover image has a second job.
It's Not Always the Font, It's the Spacing
You swapped the typeface three times and the cover still looks off. The culprit is usually the spacing - most fonts ship tuned for body text, not for type this big.
Quote Cards: Turn Your Best Lines Into Shares
Your post has one line that could travel on its own. A quote card is that line, pulled out and set as an image people actually share.
Podcast Cover Art: Sizes, Specs, and What Makes One Work
It has to clear a hard technical gate and still read at the size of a thumbnail. Get both, or your show does not list - or does not get tapped.
How to Write Alt Text for Any Image
Not every image wants the same alt - some get a sentence, some get nothing, some need the data spelled out. A decision tree by image type, for accessibility, SEO, and AI search.
Make Your Blog Cover Look Made, Not AI-Generated
The anatomy tells are gone - covers read as AI now because they look generic and untouched. Looking made is about putting a human decision back in.
Grain Is a Finish, Not a Fix
Banding is noise you barely turn up until it vanishes. Grain is noise you turn up until you can feel it - a finish for flat colors and photos, now on every background.