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Instagram Highlight Covers Free Download

Browse Instagram highlight cover designs, start from a set, and swap in your own colors, icons, and labels.

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Visa logo
Venture Foods logo
Merck logo
Target logo
Pentax logo
Procter & Gamble logo
Meta company logo with infinity symbol and text 'Meta' in gray.
Amazon logo with company wordmark and the brand's signature curved smile.
Google logo
BBC logo featured in VEED's customer showcases.
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UBS logo with stylized snowflake symbol and text.
Netflix logo in gray lettering.
OpusClip logo
Elevenlabs logo

A highlight cover set ready to customize and make yours

Instagram highlight covers are the small circular icons that sit above your profile, one for each story highlight like Travel or FAQs. This page gathers a full set of Instagram highlight covers you can open, edit, and export in your browser, with nothing to download to get started.

VEED's template gallery includes full highlight cover sets across styles from minimal line icons to bold color blocks. If you're working from your own photo or logo, run it through the background remover first so it drops cleanly onto the cover before you export the set at story dimensions.

How to create Instagram highlight covers:

Step 01

Browse templates and pick a story

Explore the gallery of Instagram story templates and choose one that fits your story. Select it to open it in the editor.

Step 02

Edit the template and swap in your elements

Replace the placeholders with your own. Rewrite the copy, drop in your photos, and adjust the colors to match your brand. Edit the prompt to change the artwork while the layout stays put.

Step 03

Resize and post to Instagram

Resize to Instagram story dimensions and export. Download your story, ready to share on Instagram.

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One editor for your whole highlight row

A profile usually needs five or six highlight covers made at once, not just one icon. Open a cover set in the browser and edit the color, label, and icon art for every cover on the same canvas. Change the prompt to swap an icon's artwork for a new highlight category while the circle layout and spacing stay consistent across the whole row.

Instagram's own editor stops at your camera roll

Instagram's built-in highlight cover editor only lets you pick a photo from your camera roll or a frame pulled from the story itself. It has no library of cover designs or icon styles to browse. This gallery fills that gap: filter down to a set of highlight cover icons for the categories you actually run, like Travel, Food, or FAQs, and open one straight into the editor.

Build the set once, reuse it for every highlight

Start from a correctly sized blank story canvas or a template, then save your logo, colors, and fonts to a brand kit so the next cover you add for Travel or FAQs matches the last one automatically. Need original icon art instead of a stock graphic? Generate it with the AI image generator, then resize the finished set for your feed grid with the AI image resizer.

FAQ

  • Instagram highlight covers are the small circular icons that sit above your profile, one for each story highlight collection such as Travel or FAQs. Instagram crops whatever image you assign into that circle, though tapping the highlight still opens the full picture behind it. VEED's gallery holds ready-made cover sets you can open, recolor, and relabel in the browser, then export at standard story dimensions, 1080 x 1920 px, for each cover.

  • Instagram highlight covers come from any image you already have, since the app itself has no built-in library of cover designs beyond your own camera roll or a still from a story. VEED's asset library gathers cover sets by theme and style that open directly in the editor, so you can pick a set and adjust it instead of building each icon from scratch. Matching art for the feed lives on the Instagram post templates page.

  • In the Instagram app, open a story highlight, tap Edit Highlight, choose Edit Cover, then pick an image from your camera roll or a frame from the story itself. To use a custom design instead, export your finished cover image from VEED's editor first, save it to your camera roll, then select that saved image as the highlight's cover inside Instagram.

  • Custom Instagram highlight covers are made in a design tool first, then saved to a phone and applied inside the Instagram app. Open a cover template or a blank canvas sized for a highlight in VEED's editor, edit the icon, color, and label, or change the prompt to generate new artwork while the layout holds, then export the finished cover ready to save to your camera roll.

  • Instagram's own highlight editor only lets you crop a photo from your camera roll or pull a frame from an existing story. It has no library of cover designs or icon styles to choose from. VEED's gallery adds that missing step, a browsable set of highlight cover templates you can filter by style, edit fully in the browser, and export ready to set as your cover inside Instagram.

  • A finished Instagram highlight cover downloads as a standard image file once it is exported from whichever editor built it. In VEED, open a cover template, edit the icon, color, and label to match your account, then export the set at story dimensions and download each cover, ready to save to your camera roll and set inside Instagram.

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Instagram highlight covers work best as a set, not a single icon, so start from a template or describe the icon you want and generate fresh artwork. Edit the copy, swap in a photo or a background-removed cutout, and adjust the color and label for each cover, then edit the prompt to change the artwork while the layout holds. Save your logo, colors, and fonts to a brand kit so every new cover matches without resetting the style each time. VEED is an AI image creation platform, and once one highlight cover set works, resize the same design for your Instagram feed grid or duplicate it into a fresh set the next time you add a highlight category like Travel or FAQs.