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2560 x 1440 pixels

2560 x 1440 px is a 16:9 landscape size, the YouTube banner size. 2560 divided by 1440 is 1.7778, and dividing both by their greatest common divisor, 160, reduces the fraction exactly to 16:9. It is 3.69 megapixels (3,686,400 pixels) with a diagonal of 2,937 px.

Who uses 2560 x 1440

Platform image sizes that are exactly 2560 by 1440 pixels
PlatformAssetRoleSource
YouTubeChannel bannerRecommended sizeDocumented

2560x1440 vs 1440x2560

1440x2560 is the same two numbers swapped, and that makes it a different shape: 9:16 portrait instead of 16:9 landscape. Width is always written first, so 2560x1440 is 2560 pixels wide and 1440 tall, while 1440x2560 is 1440 wide and 2560 tall. As decimals that is 1.7778 against 0.5625. Cropping one to fill the other keeps only 31.6 percent of the picture, so the two are not interchangeable.

No platform size in this dataset is 1440x2560: every use listed above is 2560 wide by 1440 tall. If an export meant for one of them comes out as 1440x2560, the two numbers were entered the wrong way round.

What the numbers mean

The pixel count is what the file stores. It is not the size the image appears at on a screen, and the two get confused constantly. A display measures its layout in CSS pixels, and most phones draw two or three physical pixels for every CSS pixel. That device pixel ratio is why an avatar that occupies 110 CSS pixels wants a file several times wider: on a 2x screen those 110 CSS pixels are 220 physical ones, and a 110 px file gets upscaled to fill them.

So 2560 by 1440 is a statement about the file, not about how large it looks. Whether it is enough depends on the largest surface it has to fill and on the pixel ratio of the screen filling it, which is why the platform pages above carry a minimum width as well as a recommended size.

16:9 is a shape rather than a size. See every size that uses the 16:9 aspect ratio.

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Keep the 2560x1440 shape at another size

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Common ratios

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16:9 at 2560 px wide

2560 x 1440px

The height is 1440 px.

height = 2560 x 9 / 16 = 1440 px.

Ratio
16:9
Decimal
1.7778
Result ratio
16:9

Starting from other numbers? Open 2560 x 1440 in the aspect ratio calculator to find the ratio of any width and height.

Questions about 2560x1440

Is 2560x1440 16:9?
Yes, exactly. The greatest common divisor of 2560 and 1440 is 160. 2560 / 160 = 16 and 1440 / 160 = 9, so 2560x1440 reduces to 16:9. As a check, 2560 / 1440 = 1.7778, the same as 16 / 9. Written with an x, 16x9 is the same ratio.

Closest other sizes

Nearest by shape, so a crop between any of these loses the least. Sorted by how far each one is from 1.7778.

YouTube thumbnail3840x2160X (Twitter) in-stream image1600x900Pinterest profile cover800x450Discord server banner960x540Twitch offline banner (video player)1920x1080

Every size on one page: the cheat sheet. Last verified 2026-07-27.