I’m struggling with the new Facebook cover photo rules. You can’t have more than 20% of the cover photo as text.
But what IS 20% of the cover photo?
Let’s do the math!
The cover photo is 851 pixels wide by 315 pixels tall. Which is a total of 268,065 pixels. That’s a lot of pixels!
And 20% of that is…
268,065 x 0.20 = 53,613
Still, that’s an awful lot of pixels!
To figure out what that could be in reality, I picked on old Wolfram Alpha. Plugging it in there, I can get the prime factorization of 53,613.
3 x 3 x 7 x 23 x 37
Which breaks down into about five reasonable areas. And because this is all about seeing what those are (instead of just numbers), I created a handy infographic.
The light areas are the 20% rectangles — and you can move them anywhere.
Like it? Share it on Pinterest! And if you use it, leave your Facebook fan page link in the comments so we can see how you applied it.
