Twitch banner, profile picture and panel sizesWhat Twitch publishes, and what to use where it doesn’t.

Every channel image in one list

• Profile picture — JPEG, PNG or GIF, up to 10 MB. Square. We export 800×800.
• Profile banner — 1200×480 recommended by Twitch, scaled to 480 px high.
• Video player banner (offline screen) — no published size; 1920×1080 (16:9) fits the player. Animated banners aren’t natively supported.
• Info panels — 320 px wide. Twitch’s two Help pages give different limits (see below); 320 px wide, at most 300 px high and under 1 MB satisfies both.
• Profile accent color — a hex color picked in the same Brand tab, used to highlight your channel’s elements.

Emotes, badges and channel points icons have their own sizes; they are in our Twitch emote size guide.

Profile banner: 1200×480, art on the left

Twitch’s Channel Page Setup article recommends 1200×480 px and explains the catch: pages scale with the width of each viewer’s browser. Images taller or shorter than 480 px are scaled to 480 px high, and the banner is stretched when the window is wider than the image. Twitch’s advice is to make the image as wide as possible and concentrate the graphics on the left.

• Keep your name, character and any text in the left half.
• Let the right side be a pattern or color that still looks fine stretched.
• Check it in a narrow and a very wide browser window before you call it done.

Profile picture: one face, centered

Twitch accepts JPEG, PNG or GIF up to 10 MB. The picture shows as a small circle next to your name in the directory, in raids and in recommendations, so it has to work tiny. A mascot’s face, centered with some margin, reads better than a full-body pose or a logo with words.

Use the same character you use for emotes. When viewers see your avatar in a list and then your emotes in chat, the match is what makes the channel memorable.

Offline screen (video player banner)

The video player banner appears in the player while you’re offline. Twitch’s Help page describes where to upload it (Creator Dashboard → Settings → Channel → Brand) and says animated video player banners aren’t natively supported, but it doesn’t give pixel dimensions. Because the player is 16:9 like your stream, 1920×1080 is the safe choice; 1280×720 also works.

Put the useful things on it: your schedule or usual stream days, your character, and where else to find you. Keep it readable on a phone, where the player is a few centimetres tall.

Info panels: 320 px wide

Panels sit under the player in the About section. Twitch’s Channel Page Setup article says panel images must be under 2.9 MB and no larger than 320×300 px; its How to Edit Info Panels article says under 1 MB and no larger than 320×600 px. Larger images are resized down automatically. Staying at 320 px wide, under 1 MB and no taller than 300 px meets both versions.

Typical panels: About, Schedule, Rules, Discord, Donate, Emotes. Short one-word titles stay large at 320 px. The text below each image supports Markdown but not HTML.

Make them a set

The channel page is one of the first things a new viewer sees. Use one character, two or three colors and one font across the avatar, banner, offline screen and panels, and it looks planned even on a brand-new channel. Draw or generate the character once, then place it in each format rather than making each image from scratch.

Checklist

1. 1
   Avatar

   Square, face centered, under 10 MB.

2. 2
   Banner

   1200×480, important art on the left.

3. 3
   Offline screen

   16:9 (1920×1080), static, readable on a phone.

4. 4
   Panels

   320 px wide, ≤300 px high, under 1 MB, one-word titles.

5. 5
   Accent color

   Pick it from your character’s palette.

Sources

• Twitch Help, Channel Page Setup — help.twitch.tv/s/article/channel-page-setup
• Twitch Help, How to Edit Info Panels — help.twitch.tv/s/article/how-to-edit-info-panels

Checked on 6 November 2026. The 1920×1080 offline size and our 800×800 avatar export are our recommendations, not Twitch specs.