Why Some Pinterest Pins Get Cut Off With a 'See More' Overlay
Published 2026-10-04
Pinterest's feed is a fixed-width column
Pinterest's grid layout is built around a fixed column width, with each Pin's height simply scaling to whatever its own aspect ratio works out to. A very tall, narrow Pin forces its column to stretch dramatically, which would otherwise create huge visual gaps next to the normal-height Pins beside it.
The truncation threshold
To keep the grid from breaking apart visually, Pinterest caps how tall a Pin displays before clipping it with a "see more" overlay — practically, that threshold sits around a 1:2.1 width-to-height ratio. A 1000×1500px Standard Pin (2:3, roughly 1:1.5) comfortably clears it; a 1000×2100px long infographic Pin sits right at the edge of it.
Why Pinterest still recommends 2:3 as the default
The Standard Pin's 2:3 ratio isn't just "safely under the truncation limit" — it's also tall enough to stand out and occupy more visual space in a scrolling feed than a square or landscape image would, which is part of why Pinterest's own algorithm has historically favored it in search and home feed placement.
Square and Idea Pins solve different problems
A Square Pin (1:1) trades some of that feed prominence for a format that's easier to reuse elsewhere (the same crop often works for an Instagram post too), while the 9:16 Idea Pin exists specifically for Pinterest's full-screen, story-style format rather than the regular scrolling feed.
Crop to the right ratio, not just "tall"
Our Pinterest Pin Size Templates tool center-crops your image into the exact Standard, Square, Idea or long Infographic Pin dimensions, so you land inside Pinterest's current recommended ratios instead of guessing where the truncation line falls.