# What size should the profile icon be
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [March 13, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064 "2024-03-13T20:09:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@trudge](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trudge)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064/1 "2024-03-13T20:09:22Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 8:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064/3 "2024-03-14T08:45:22Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@trudge](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trudge)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064/4 "2024-03-14T15:14:36Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064/5 "2024-03-14T15:34:44Z")
I'd definitely try with equal sizes for height and width.
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### Author:  [@trudge](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trudge)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064/6 "2024-03-14T20:19:30Z")
Well 60 x 60px doesn't work either. Always the bottom corners get cropped out. Stuck with the default I guess.
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### Author:  [@trudge](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trudge)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064/7 "2024-03-14T20:25:15Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064/9 "2024-03-14T20:57:50Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> If it crops too much, you might need to extend the image so that cropping it displays the part you want to show.
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.
This will most likely be my last post in this topic.
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### Author:  [@trudge](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trudge)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-size-should-the-profile-icon-be/64064/10 "2024-03-14T21:12:01Z")
i will try your advice. Many thanks for the time.