About Editorial policy
About BannerShape
An independent toolkit and reference for one recurring problem: getting a banner image to fit a frame you do not control.
What this site is
BannerShape collects the frame sizes, crop rules and templates that would otherwise be scattered across forum posts. It also ships three browser tools: a size reference, a splitter that cuts one photo into three posts, and a gallery of 21 original three-post templates. Everything on the site works without an account.
The first complete topic is TikTok banners. Further platform sections — Instagram, YouTube, X and LinkedIn — are planned but deliberately absent: a page that loads nothing is worse than no page at all.
What it deliberately is not
- Not a platform product. BannerShape is an independent banner toolkit. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X or LinkedIn; platform names are used only to describe what a size, crop or template is for.
- Not an availability checker or unlock service. No website can see which features your account has. The not-showing guide says so plainly instead of selling a fix.
- Not a live status feed. Nothing here updates itself; every dated claim carries the date it was checked.
- Not a template marketplace. The 21 designs are drawn for this site, carry no watermark, and require no attribution.
How the writing is kept honest
Every claim is graded before it is written: platform documentation, third-party study, third-party guide, screenshot estimate, or unverified. The grade decides the verb. Something reported by users is written as reported; something no source confirms is written as unconfirmed, even when every competitor page states it as fact.
Two consequences you will notice. There is no published pixel size for the native TikTok profile background on this site, because none could be confirmed. And 3240 × 1440 is labelled a community canvas for three 1080 × 1440 tiles — a working convention, not an official specification.
The sources appendix at the foot of each guide explains what each source can and cannot support.
Images and artwork
Diagrams, template artwork and the favicon are original work made for this site. The TikTok guides contain two other kinds of material, and both are labelled where they appear: credited frames from creator recordings on the not-showing guide, and an optional click-to-load creator video on the get guide. Those items are third-party material used with attribution; they are not claimed as licensed stock, and their captions state the source. If you own one of them and want it changed, use the feedback channel once it reopens (below).
No platform logo is used as BannerShape's own identity. The wordmark, the glyph and the favicon are original. Platform names appear in page titles and body copy only to describe what a size or template is for.
Feedback
The feedback form is not open on this build. The old form posted to a Cloudflare Worker bound to a different domain, with a mailbox on that domain. Neither exists for bannershape.com yet, so rather than show a form that silently fails, the entry point stays a status note until the service is configured for this domain.
What has to be in place before it reopens:
- A Worker route for
bannershape.com/api/feedbackon the new host. - A verified destination address on the new domain, with Cloudflare Email Routing or an equivalent in place.
- A rate limit and a spam trap, matching the previous implementation.
- The privacy note updated to name the new recipient and retention period.
Until then, the site's own pages are the place to check: if a claim looks wrong, the source ledger on that page is what it rests on, and a correction would show up there first. For problems with a platform app itself, use that platform's official help and in-app reporting — no third-party site can file it for you.
Trademarks
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and LinkedIn are trademarks of their respective owners. This site uses those names to describe the platforms its sizes and templates are for. It uses its own name, artwork and layout, and carries a standing non-affiliation notice on every page. That reduces confusion; it is not a legal clearance, and nothing here should be read as legal advice.
Status of this build
This is a pre-launch build prepared for review. The canonical domain in the markup is bannershape.com, but nothing has been deployed to it, no DNS change has been made, and the old site at its own domain is untouched. Analytics is not enabled: no measurement ID is configured for this property yet.