X header ideas that use your own people

An X header is 1500×500 pixels. Your profile photo covers the bottom-left corner, and some phones trim the top and bottom, so only a band through the middle is always seen. Put the important part there. Every Orbit Cards header leaves the photo corner empty and seats your closest people in that middle band, so you don't have to measure anything.

If you reply a lot, a crowd header shows it. Spectrum sorts a hundred faces into a rainbow by photo colour. Mosaic gives your top ten big square tiles and everyone else a small one. Bloom spirals out from your #1, and Bubbles keeps fewer, bigger faces for a smaller circle.

A scene turns faces into a picture. Skyline puts them in the lit windows of a city at dusk, Garden in the middle of flowers, Stadium in the front rows of the stands, and Map pins on a dotted world map.

These use handles as well as faces. Departures spells your people out on a split-flap flight board, Ticker lists them as stock tickers that are all up, Comic puts them in speech-bubble panels, and Yearbook prints first names under class photos.

Polaroids pins instant photos to a corkboard with handles written underneath, Film runs three film strips across, and Record shelf files everyone as album sleeves. Then & now is the odd one out: last year's people in sepia next to this year's in colour.

Start from your account. A big, busy circle suits a crowd; a handful of close mutuals suits Bubbles or Constellation, where each face is large. If your account has a theme, a board or a scene carries it. Every header comes in three looks (From their photos, Night and Paper), so match the look to your profile photo. Then change it now and then: a header with this month's people stays true.