# Instagram landscape size: when 1080×566 makes sense

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Landscape is the smallest shape the Instagram feed allows, and the grid cuts most of it away. Sometimes it is still the right choice. Here is how to tell, and how to design for it.

## The short version

- The Instagram landscape size is 1080×566 pixels, an aspect ratio of 1.91:1.
- At the same width, a landscape post is less than half the height of a 1080×1350 portrait post, so it takes much less of the screen in the feed.
- The profile grid shows posts as 3:4 tiles cut from the centre, which keeps only about the middle 425 pixels of a landscape post's width.
- Landscape suits wide photographs, product line ups, screenshots and designs shared with other wide formats, not text heavy announcements.
- In a carousel, the first slide sets the shape for every slide, so a landscape opener makes the whole carousel landscape.

The **Instagram landscape size** is 1080×566 pixels, a wide 1.91:1 frame. It is the smallest of Instagram's three feed shapes: at the same width, it is less than half the height of a 1080×1350 portrait post. That makes it a deliberate choice rather than a default. Use it when the subject is genuinely wide, a panorama, a row of products, a screenshot, and design it knowing your profile grid will show only its centre.

## Instagram landscape dimensions

| Shape | Size (px) | Ratio | Height compared with portrait |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Landscape | 1080×566 | 1.91:1 | 42% |
| Square | 1080×1080 | 1:1 | 80% |
| Portrait | 1080×1350 | 4:5 | 100% |

All three feed shapes share a width of 1080 pixels. Only the height changes, and height is what the feed rewards.

If you upload something wider than 1.91:1, Instagram asks you to crop it. If you upload a wide image at a larger size, the app scales it down to 1080 wide and recompresses it, so exporting at exactly 1080×566 keeps sharpening and compression in your hands. The full set of shapes lives in [Instagram post size](https://gradiently.design/guide/instagram-post-size), and the idea of ratios in general in [aspect ratio](https://gradiently.design/guide/aspect-ratios-explained).

## How a landscape post looks in the feed

- Landscape 1.91:1: 1080 × 566
- Square 1:1: 1080 × 1080
- Portrait 4:5: 1080 × 1350

The three feed shapes to scale. On a phone, the landscape post is a strip; the portrait post fills most of the screen.

Feeds are scrolled vertically, so every post competes for height. A landscape post leaves the posts above and below it visible at the same time, which means less of the reader's attention is on yours. That is the honest cost of the format, and it is why most accounts use portrait for anything designed and save landscape for images that would be ruined by cropping.

## What the profile grid does to a landscape post

Your profile shows every post as a 3:4 tile cropped from the centre. A landscape post is the worst fit for that tile. Scaled so its height fills the tile, a 1080×566 post keeps only about the middle 425 pixels of its width, roughly two fifths. The left and right of the image simply aren't there on your profile.

A wide 1080 by 566 Instagram post announcing an autumn product line up, words on the left half

The landscape post as it appears in the feed, with room for a wide arrangement.

A tall 1080 by 1350 version of the autumn line up post with the headline centred

A portrait version of the same post, made as its own layout rather than cropped.

The practical fix is to put the subject, and any words, in the centre. If your headline starts at the left edge, the grid will show the middle of a sentence. More on how tiles are cut, for every shape, in [Instagram grid crop](https://gradiently.design/guide/instagram-profile-grid-crop).

## When the landscape size is the right choice

- **Panoramas and wide scenes:** a coastline, a dining room, a stage. Cropping them to portrait loses the reason you took the photo.
- **Product line ups:** six mugs in a row read better wide than stacked.
- **Screenshots of websites and dashboards:** desktop screens are wide, and squeezing them into a tall frame makes the interface tiny.
- **Video stills and film frames:** a 16:9 frame crops to 1.91:1 with very little loss.
- **One design for several wide platforms:** the same layout sits close to a [link preview image](https://gradiently.design/guide/open-graph-image-size) and an X post, so one wide master can serve all three with small adjustments.
- **Deliberate contrast in a carousel series:** an occasional wide post can break a grid of portraits, as long as its centre still works as a tile.

Avoid landscape for announcements, quotes, menus and anything mostly made of words. Text needs height to be set large, and a 566 pixel tall canvas forces small type that the feed then shrinks again.

## Designing a landscape post that survives the grid

1. **Start at 1080×566** Set the canvas to the exact size and draw a guide box around the middle 425 pixels of the width. That box is your grid tile.
2. **Put the subject and the words inside the box** Spread the scene across the full width, but keep the headline, logo and focal point in the centre band.
3. **Keep the type short and big** Two to four words at a generous size. A wide canvas tempts you into a long single line; resist it.
4. **Use the sides for atmosphere** The left and right thirds are seen in the feed but not in the grid. Background, texture and space belong there, not information.
5. **Preview both views** Look at the full post at phone size, then crop a copy to a 3:4 centre and check that it still says something.

### Avoid

- A headline running edge to edge
- Logo tucked in the bottom left corner
- Small body text across the width
- A tall photo forced into a wide frame

### Do

- A short headline in the centre band
- Logo near the centre, or left out
- One line of large type
- Wide subjects, shot or composed wide

## Landscape posts in carousels

A carousel takes its shape from the first slide. If the first image is landscape, every slide is shown at 1.91:1, and taller images get cropped to fit. That can be lovely for a wide photo story, a walk along a street told in six frames, but it is a poor choice for tips or step by step carousels, which need height for their words. See [Instagram carousel size](https://gradiently.design/guide/instagram-carousel-size) before you commit to a shape for a whole set.

If you need the same post in several shapes, make each one as its own layout. Gradiently lets you design once and lay the design out again for another size, or for every size in one step with Pro, with the background rendered fresh for each frame instead of stretched, and Auto ink choosing light or dark type for every line so the words still read in the new arrangement.

## FAQ

### What is the Instagram landscape size?

1080×566 pixels, an aspect ratio of 1.91:1. It is the widest shape Instagram's feed accepts without cropping.

### Do landscape posts get cropped on Instagram?

Not in the feed, where they show in full. On your profile grid they are shown as 3:4 tiles from the centre, which hides most of the left and right.

### Is landscape or portrait better on Instagram?

Portrait at 1080×1350 takes far more of the screen, so it is better for most designed posts. Landscape is better when the subject is wide and would be ruined by cropping.

### Can I mix landscape and portrait in one carousel?

All slides take the shape of the first one, so mixed images are cropped to match. Choose the shape that suits the whole set.