Low-res twitter profile pictures

[wolverine231]

Hi, I'm making new Twitter profile pictures for a couple of clients based on low-res samples of their logos and have seen that twitter makes them appear low-res for whatever reason. here's my work-flow:

1. find the font using a matching site, and see if it available for free, if not then I get samples and use the tracings/outlines (these generally aren't perfect but have really small flaws)

2. re-size letters and relevant colors (keeping artboard at 400 px by 400 px for twitter)

3. export using the highest PPI as PNG

4. when i upload to twitter the quality is passable but it is still a little grainy! How can i avoid this?

[Monika Gause]

If you set up your artboard at 400x400 px and then use a different ppi than 72 ppi for export, you are enlarging the output image (it will be much larger than 400x400 px). Twitter will then do whatever tothat image when you upload it. Quality will get worse.

[wolverine231]

so you would keep it at 72 for optimal presentation on twitter?

[Monika Gause]

If Twitter needs 400x400 then you need to give them that. Won't help to give them 3000x3000

The ppi doesn't matter, because the number of pixels is relevant.