What Size Is a Notion Page Cover?
Notion crops covers to your window, so design a wide band, not a fixed rectangle.
Make a Notion cover at least ~1,500 px wide and design it as a wide, short band - there is no single official pixel size, because Notion crops the cover responsively to the width of your window. That is the whole answer; the rest is why, and how to keep your subject from getting clipped.
A Notion cover is not a rectangle you control. It is a band that Notion fits to the page width, with one drag handle to nudge the vertical crop and nothing else. So the question “what size is a Notion page cover” has no clean pixel answer the way an OG card does. You design a band.
Why there is no fixed size
Most platforms hand you a spec. Notion does not. Its own help page is blunt about it: covers are “dynamic depending on the width of your window, so there’s no specific size that works best,” and it recommends “images at least 1,500 pixels wide.” So 1,500 px is a floor, not a frame. Treat it as the minimum width that keeps the band sharp, not a target shape.
The visible shape is a wide, short strip - commonly cited as around 1500x600, a rough 5:2 letterbox. That figure is the effective band Notion tends to crop to, not an official dimension, so do not trust it to the pixel. The only crop control you get is a vertical reposition drag: you grab the cover, slide the focal point up or down, and set where the band sits in the image. You never pin an exact frame. Notion decides the horizontal crop from your window, and that decision changes every time the window does.
The safe band
Because the crop is responsive, the edges are the first thing to go. A narrow window, a phone, a sidebar pushed open, the reposition drag - every one of them eats into the top, bottom, or sides of your image. The center survives. The edges are negotiable.
So the rule writes itself: put the focal subject and any words in the horizontal center strip, and let the outer left and right edges carry only texture or color you can afford to lose. A face, a product, a logo - center it. Background gradient, grain, an out-of-focus wash - that can run to the edge and get clipped without anyone noticing.
Design the band, not the rectangle. Whatever Notion shows on the narrowest screen still has to hold the subject.
Text in a Notion cover
Keep type out of the cover and let the page title do the talking.
Notion stacks its own interface on top of the band. The page title sits over the cover, the page icon (your emoji or image) overlaps the lower-left, and on a published page there is often a breadcrumb too. Drop a headline into the cover art and you get two headlines fighting for the same corner - the one you set in the image and the real H1 Notion renders on top of it. The eye does not know which to read. The emoji lands on your carefully placed word.
If you must set type on the cover, keep it small, push it off-center from the icon, and give it hard contrast so it reads as a label, not a competing title. A cover built in Lede at a clean wide ratio handles that pairing well, since you can place text away from the lower-left where Notion’s UI lives. But the honest default is simpler: cover as atmosphere, title as message.
A Notion cover is not your link-preview card
People conflate these two constantly.
The Notion cover is a visual element inside the page. The social link preview is a different thing entirely - it is the og:image a platform reads from the page’s <head> and renders into a card when someone pastes the link. The og:image is one of the four required Open Graph properties, and it has its own shape: 1200x630, a fixed 1.91:1 card the platform crops, not Notion.
So a Notion page you publish to the web still needs its own og:image for the link preview. The cover banner is not that image. They do different jobs at different shapes, and a beautiful cover does nothing for how your link looks in Slack or on LinkedIn. If the link preview is what you care about, that lives in the OG card, not the banner. The two get confused constantly, and the fix is just knowing they are two files.
| Use | Recommended width | Shape | Who crops it | Is it the link preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notion page cover | at least ~1,500 px | wide short band (~5:2, responsive) | Notion, to your window | No |
| OG / social card | 1200 (1200x630) | 1.91:1, fixed | the platform, fixed crop | Yes |
A clipped cover is a crop problem, not a size problem
The most common Notion-cover mistake looks like a sizing failure but is not one. You upload a perfectly sized image - 1,500 wide, or 3,000 to be safe - and the subject still gets cut off. So you assume you need more pixels and re-export bigger. It does nothing.
Adding pixels cannot fix a crop. The responsive horizontal crop cuts the same proportions no matter how many pixels feed it; a 3,000-wide image gets sliced in the same place a 1,500-wide one does, just with more detail in the parts that survive. The fix is composition, not resolution. Build wide and centered so whatever band Notion shows still contains the subject.
That gives you a clean decision rule. If the cover has to hold a subject - a face, a logo, a product shot - center it horizontally and keep the top and bottom safe. If the cover is just texture or atmosphere, edge composition is fine and you can let the crop fall wherever the window puts it. Subject in the middle, mood at the edges.
A quick checklist
- Start with an image at least ~1,500 px wide, and go to 3,000 px if you want it crisp on large screens.
- Design a wide, short band (~5:2), not a tall rectangle.
- Keep the focal subject and any text in the horizontal center strip.
- Use the reposition drag to set the vertical focal point, and expect no exact-pixel control.
- Treat the cover as atmosphere and let the page title carry the message.
- Remember the cover is not your link preview - a published page still needs its own 1200x630 og:image.
If you want the spec behind that last line, open graph image size covers the 1200x630 card in full, and social image sizes for bloggers lays out what each platform actually crops. For the broader “what size is a cover, really” question across hero and share, the blog cover sizing guide is the pillar.
I built the cover for this post in Lede at 1200x630 - a wide, centered composition, the subject held in the middle so the band reads at any width. When you want to design your own wide band, open the editor and start from a preset, or pull a starting point from the gallery. Design the band, keep the subject centered, and the crop stops being a problem.