The LinkedIn Safe Zone Guide shows where LinkedIn’s interface sits on top of your image or video, so you can position logos, faces, and headlines where they will actually be seen. Every LinkedIn surface overlays chrome — captions, profile chips, buttons — and content placed under that chrome is effectively invisible.
How it works
For each format the tool draws the creative at its correct aspect ratio and shades the margins where LinkedIn places interface elements, leaving a clear central safe area. The safe-zone percentages come from where the platform anchors its controls: for example vertical stories reserve roughly the top and bottom 12 to 15 percent for the profile chip and the caption or reply bar, while the profile banner reserves its lower-left corner for your photo and name. Anything you keep inside the clear zone survives on every device.
Tips and notes
Treat the central band as the only reliable place for must-see content. On the 4:1 profile banner, push your logo and tagline up and to the right, away from the lower-left photo overlap. On vertical video and stories, keep captions and key text in the middle third and never at the very top or bottom. Even on feed images that mostly show in full, leave a small margin on all four edges because mobile cropping and overlaid playback controls can clip the extremes.