Discord size guide: make Discord icons, avatars, and banners
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Discord's popular browser-based platform connects gamers and creatives worldwide through virtual chat.
Since launching in 2015, this recreational communication software has seen incredible growth. In January 2023, there were about 154 million monthly active users (MAU) on Discord.
Around 53% of Discord users are 25–34 years old, according to Statista.
Discord provides a niche platform for connecting with friends and family and also engaging large community groups. Whether you're personalizing your profile or spinning up your own Discord server, it's important to optimize your images.
It's also become an increasingly important platform for AI image generation using Midjourney. The Midjourney Server is the largest server on Discord, with over 16 million users.
This post is our pocket guide for you to create all your Discord visuals at the recommended sizes.
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Discord image size table
| Image type | Recommended size | File type |
|---|---|---|
| Avatar (profile picture) | 128 x 128px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| Personal profile banner | 600 x 240px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| Server icon | 512 x 512px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| Server banner background | 1920 x 1080px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| Server invite background | 1920 x 1080px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| Channel icon | 64 x 64px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| Emoji | 128 x 128px | PNG, GIF |
| Sticker | 320 x 320px | PNG, APNG, Lottie |
| Role icon | 64 x 64px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| App cover | 800 x 450px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| App icon | 512 x 512px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| App banner | 1920 x 1080px | JPEG, PNG, GIF |
| Rich presence asset image (small) | 32 x 32px | PNG, GIF |
| Rich presence asset image (large) | 512 x 512px | PNG, GIF |
If you’re thinking about getting started on Discord, particularly starting your own community, you'll need some visual assets for an eye-catching Discord profile.
While video games remain the most popular topic for Discord communities, the applications are endless. You can join communities based around various topics: from art and music to novel writing, self-development, and more. As a Discord user, you can browse and choose your favorite Servers.
There's also a paid premium version of Discord called Discord Nitro, which offers boosters like custom animated emojis, animated Avatars, custom banners, and more.
Let's explore a few of the Discord features that require images. We'll provide some best practices for ensuring your profile and Servers look great and engage other users.
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Bots and servers on Discord
If you're totally new to the platform, you might be wondering what Bots and Servers are. Do they require you to upload an image?
Servers require an image when you create them. Bots don"t.
A Discord Server is a community. Being a community-based platform, Discord is centered around specific interest groups. These might range from a three-person friend group to a community of thousands around a specific topic.
You can upload a Server icon and banner. You can also set a Server invite background to showcase your community to new users.
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Each Discord server can have multiple channels dedicated to different topics within that server group.
A Discord Bot is AI software that improves the user experience on Discord by helping to perform tasks. You need to toggle Developer Mode on to create Bots.
You can use Bots for moderation, statistics, announcements, playing music, and even to help you find the right meme for a conversation. Discord Bots don't require you to upload an image.
Learn more about the intersection between technical creativity, coding, and AI in generative design.
Discord Avatar size
Your Discord Avatar (profile picture) is how other Discord users will see and interact with you while using the platform. It represents you and should communicate something about who you are.
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Discord Avatar size
While there's a general file size limit of 8MB on the free version of Discord, you can upload larger files when you upgrade to the Nitro premium package.
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Discord Server icon and banner background sizes
To start a Discord Server, you'll need an icon for your Server logo. Think of it as your Server's profile image or Avatar.
This circular icon will appear in your community members’ sidebar and wherever your server is displayed for other Discord users to see.
The best Discord server icon size is a square image of 512 × 512px, which gets cropped into a circle as with the Avatar image.
When setting up your Server, you can also add a Discord banner background and Server invite background image. The banner and invite background images can only be customized if you boost your Server.
A Server Boost on Discord is a paid add-on that lets you enhance your server with benefits like improved audio quality, more emoji slots, better video quality, and custom Server banners.
Discord gives you plenty of screen real estate for these images, allowing you to customize your server.
The minimum size for your Discord Server's banner background is 960 x 540px, and Server invite background images must be at least 1920 x 1080px. As long as you keep a 16:9 ratio, we recommend image sizes of 1920 x 1080px and bigger.
You can use Linearity Curve as your Discord icon maker. With our wide range of logo design tools, you can create your Discord icon quickly and easily.
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Discord emoji size
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Example of a Discord custom Emoji
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Create your Discord presence with Linearity
Whether it's expressing your personality or branding your company's Discord Server, Linearity's feature set has all the tools you need to create bespoke Discord image assets.
Linearity Curve is a vector design platform with AI-enhanced features to quickly bring your vision to life. You can create scalable, reusable vector graphics for different Discord assets, such as the Server icon and banner background.
Put your designs in motion with Linearity Move. Linearity Curve is seamlessly integrated with Linearity Move, which means you can whip up professional animated icons and emoji in seconds.
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Ben is a Content Lead for Linearity living in Berlin. His hobbies include board games, cooking, reading, and writing.
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