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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Batch-Making Covers for a Content Calendar
Make a month of covers in one sitting instead of one a week.
Why Your Link Preview Is Not Showing Up
The four things that blank a link card, and the two-step fix that clears them.
How to Keep Text Readable Over a Photo
Why a flat wash fails, and the scrim-and-grayscale fix that does not.
AI-Generated vs Stock vs Custom Cover Images
The honest tradeoffs between AI art, stock photos, and a custom typographic cover.
Before and After - Fixing Bad Blog Covers
The five ways covers fail, and the one-move fix for each.
Choosing Fonts for Blog Covers
Type that still reads at thumbnail size - heavy weight, a screen sans, sized small, one display face.
Social Image Sizes for Bloggers
One 1200x630 file covers nearly every share, with Pinterest and Instagram the only exceptions.
Featured Image Layouts by Post Type
Match the cover layout to the job the post does, and the design picks itself.
WebP vs JPG vs PNG for Blog Images
When to reach for each, and why WebP wins most of the time.