What size should the profile icon be

New member here, and wondering about changing the profile icon assigned to me. I have a .jpg I'd like to use and reduced the dimensions as much as I can but it still comes out wrong.

Tried SVG but no joy there either. What size (h x w) should I be looking at?

Usually, you're good with images around 120x120 pixels. AFAIK, Discourse has no fixed and recommended size.

From what I read in your post, the "comes out wrong" might refer to what's actually shown in the circular avatar image. If it crops too much, you might need to extend the image so that cropping it displays the part you want to show.

Really curious about your profile picture now!

I've altered the size of my .jpg to 68 x 63px but it still gets cropped at the bottom corners (it is square not round). I have another one and will try that.

I'd definitely try with equal sizes for height and width.

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Well 60 x 60px doesn't work either. Always the bottom corners get cropped out. Stuck with the default I guess.

Will an SVG image work? I'm using Preview on a Mac for image editing a .jpg, but I could make up an SVG pretty quick.

Have you tried this? If you have a 120x120 image, just extend the canvas to 165x165 with transparency so that will be cropped instead of the actual image you want to show.

Example with 45px transparency

This will most likely be my last post in this topic.

i will try your advice. Many thanks for the time.