What is a Pinterest safe zone?

A safe zone is the area of your Pin that stays clear of Pinterest's interface elements — the profile chip, caption, action buttons and progress bar. Keeping text and key visuals inside this zone guarantees they are never hidden behind the app UI.

How much margin should I leave on a Pinterest Idea Pin?

On a 1080×1920 (9:16) Idea or video Pin, leave roughly the top 14% and bottom 20% clear, plus about 6% on each side. That keeps your message away from the title bar, caption strip and side action rail.

Where does Pinterest place the progress bar and buttons?

On multi-page Idea Pins the progress bar sits across the very top, the profile and follow chip sit just below it, and Like/Comment/Share/Save buttons run up the right edge with the caption along the bottom.

Does the safe zone differ for static 2:3 Pins?

Yes. Standard 2:3 image Pins have far less overlay — mainly a small save button top-right and the title beneath the Pin in the feed — so you only need a modest top-right and bottom margin compared with full-screen Idea Pins.

Why do my Pin captions get cut off?

If text sits too close to the bottom or sides it collides with Pinterest's caption strip and action rail, which render on top of the image. Pulling text into the central safe zone prevents that overlap.

Pinterest Safe Zone Guide

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This simulator overlays Pinterest’s actual interface zones onto a blank Pin canvas so you can see exactly where the app will cover your design. Switch between a full-screen 9:16 Idea/video Pin and a standard 2:3 image Pin, and the shaded bands reveal the regions occupied by the progress bar, profile chip, caption and the right-edge action buttons.

How it works

Pinterest renders its UI on top of your media rather than beside it, so any text, logo or face placed under those controls gets obscured. The tool models each control as a percentage band of the canvas — a top title/progress region, a bottom caption region, and side rails for buttons — then draws them as masks over a representative canvas. Everything inside the clear centre is the safe zone.

The recommended margins are expressed as percentages so they scale to any resolution: for a 9:16 Idea Pin that means roughly the top 14% and bottom 20% kept clear, with about 6% on each side. For a 2:3 static Pin the overlay is much lighter, so only a small top-right and bottom margin is needed.

Tips

Design on a template with the safe zone marked, then flatten before export — guides should never bake into the final image.
Centre your headline both vertically and horizontally; the middle of the canvas is never covered on any Pin format.
Test on the smallest target screen — phones show the most aggressive UI overlay, so if it is clear on mobile it is clear everywhere.
Leave extra room on the right edge of Idea Pins, where the Like, Comment, Share and Save buttons stack vertically.