What size should Instagram highlight covers be?

Highlight covers are cropped into a circle. The maker exports them at 1080 × 1920 with the icon centered, or at 1080 × 1080. Both are PNG files.

Can I use emoji instead of icons?

Yes. Each cover can use a line icon from the library or an emoji, and you can mix both in the same set.

Can I change the style of all covers at once?

Yes. The background, icon color, icon size and ring are shared by the whole series, so changing them updates every cover.

Do I need an account or an app?

No. The tool runs in your browser on phone, tablet or computer, without an account and without installation.

Instagram Highlight Covers Maker, Free Icons and Emoji

An Instagram highlight covers maker creates the small images shown in the circles under your bio, one per highlight. In SwipeAtelier, you build the whole set at once: each cover gets its own line icon or emoji, while the background, icon color, icon size and optional ring are shared by all of them. You preview the covers as a row of circles, as on a profile, and export them as PNG files, for free and with no account.

Why use matching highlight covers

Highlights are displayed as circles under the bio, and each cover is cropped into a circle. When every circle uses the same background and the same style of icon, the row reads as a small menu of your profile: travel, food, shop, reviews, contact. Mismatched screenshots, on the other hand, make it harder to tell the topics apart.

What the highlight covers maker offers

A series of covers: add as many covers as you need.
An icon or an emoji per cover: choose from a library of about fifty line icons (travel, food, fashion, sport, reviews, contact, shop and more), or use any emoji.
One shared style: solid or gradient background, icon color, icon size and an optional ring.
Live preview as a row of circles, like on a profile.
Two export sizes in PNG: 1080 × 1920, with the icon in the center, or 1080 × 1080.

How to make Instagram highlight covers

Open the highlight covers maker.
Add a cover for each highlight you have or plan to create.
For each one, pick a line icon or an emoji.
Set the shared style: a solid color or a gradient, the icon color, the icon size, and a ring if you want one.
Check the row of circles in the preview and adjust until the set looks balanced.
Choose the export size, 1080 × 1920 or 1080 × 1080, and export. On a computer, several covers come as a ZIP; on mobile, the share sheet saves them to Photos.

Adding the covers in Instagram

When you edit a highlight's cover in Instagram, you choose an image and position it inside a circle. With the 1080 × 1920 export, the icon sits in the center of the image, so you only need to center the circle on it. The square 1080 × 1080 export is handy if you prefer to start from an image that is already close to the circle.

Same style as your stories

If you design the stories that go into those highlights, the Instagram story maker uses the same kind of solid and gradient backgrounds, so the stories and their covers can share colors. For a full view of your profile before posting, the Instagram grid planner shows your next posts as a 3:4 grid.

Like every free Instagram tool in SwipeAtelier, the covers maker runs in your browser: nothing is uploaded, there are no ads, and it works offline after your first visit.