Notion Cover Builder | 1500x600 PNG covers without leaving the browser
Build the cover image that sits at the top of a Notion page from a title, a subtitle, one of four background patterns, a text alignment, and three colors, then export the result as a 1500x600 PNG. The output is locked to Notion's desktop-recommended 5:2 (25:10) aspect ratio so you never have to resize or recrop.
💡 A small tool for keeping a workspace visually coherent
Once a Notion workspace grows past a handful of pages, the default Unsplash covers start to fight each other: every dashboard and parent page becomes a patchwork of unrelated stock photos, and nothing tells you at a glance which page is which.
This builder skips photography entirely and gives you four geometric backgrounds — solid, linear gradient, line grid, dot grid — plus a title, a subtitle, and three editable colors. Because the only knobs are two background colors and a text color, you can make a whole series of covers for one project by changing just the hue, and they will read as siblings the moment you upload them.
Drop the resulting PNG straight into Notion via Change cover -> Upload.
🧐 Frequently asked questions
Q. Why 1500x600 pixels specifically? A. That is Notion's desktop-recommended size with a 5:2 (25:10) aspect ratio. On desktop, the entire image renders as a banner across the page width.
Q. My cover gets cropped on phones and tablets — what happened? A. Notion scales the cover to the viewport, which means tablets show roughly 1170x290 of it and phones show roughly 1170x445. Anything that needs to remain visible has to live inside the 1170x230 centered safe area. Choosing center alignment in this tool nudges your text into that zone automatically.
Q. When should I pick each of the four patterns? A. Solid maximizes text contrast — good for hub pages like Home or a reading log. Gradient adds a softer mood for personal projects. Grid suggests structure and is a natural fit for task trackers, sprints, and engineering pages. Dots feel lighter and work well for notes, study, and journaling pages.
Q. Is there a character limit on the text? A. Yes — the title is capped at 40 characters and the subtitle at 60. If a string gets too wide for the canvas, the preview shrinks the font automatically, so you can see the fit while you type.
Q. Can I change only the text color? A. Yes. The text color is independent of the two background colors. Use a dark text color on light backgrounds and a near-white on dark backgrounds so the title stays readable inside the safe area.
Q. What is the downloaded file named?
A. The title is stripped down to ASCII letters and digits, joined with -cover.png. If the title has no ASCII characters at all, the file is saved as notion-cover-builder.png and you can rename it afterward.
📚 Why a 5:2 banner is harder to design than it looks
Designing for 5:2 is closer to typesetting a headline than to laying out a photo. The frame is so short and so wide that any subject placed off-center will get clipped the moment a reader opens the page on a narrower window. Notion compounds this by re-cropping the cover responsively rather than letting you control the focal point per device.
The practical workaround is to treat the cover as a long horizontal strip with a guaranteed-visible inner rectangle. The four pattern options in this builder are picked for exactly that constraint: each one tiles or fills uniformly, so cropping the top, the bottom, or the edges removes no information that mattered. Your title and subtitle, on the other hand, are placed deliberately inside the 1170x230 centered zone, where they survive every viewport.
If you think of the cover as a typeset banner rather than a hero photograph, the constraints stop feeling arbitrary. Pick a pattern, pick two colors, write a short label, and let the geometry do the rest.