Instagram templates
Instagram templates
Five templates for Seeds of Renaissance Instagram posts: podcast episode, quote card, announcement, statement and carousel. Each sits on the same ground as the podcast cover: sunlight, black swallows rising from the bottom left, the logo's fingerprints faded around them. The words sit above the birds and the logo under the words.
With your agent: paste the prompt on Social; it uses these templates. In Canva: download the kit (zip, 14 MB) and follow the steps below.
Sizes
- Portrait 4:5, 1080 × 1350: the default for Instagram feed posts. In Canva: Custom size, 1080 × 1350 px, or the Instagram Portrait Post preset.
- Square 1:1, 1080 × 1080: Instagram Post (Square).
Instagram's profile grid crops posts to 3:4, trimming a little off the top and bottom of a 4:5 post. Everything important sits well inside that.
What's in the kit
| Folder | Files | Use |
|---|---|---|
1-backgrounds | bg-4x5, bg-4x5-quiet, and the same for 1x1 | Start here. The whole background in one image. Quiet keeps only the fingerprints, for carousel inner slides and text-heavy posts |
2-elements | element-swallows-flock-black, element-fingerprint-ring, element-fingerprint-ring-faded, element-logo-lockup, element-logo-mark | Free-standing pieces with transparent backgrounds, to place and size yourself. The fingerprint ring is the new mark's prints without the bird. The faded ring is at the strength used in the templates (20%); with the full one, set transparency in Canva |
3-full-page-layers | layer-4x5-swallows, layer-4x5-fingerprints, and the same for 1x1 | The background's pieces separately, already in position: stretch to fill the page |
4-guides | guides-… for each template | Pink boxes showing where the words and photo go, with type sizes. Put on top while working, delete before downloading |
5-examples | example-… for each template, with and without guides | For reference |
The templates
| Template | Format | Words | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast episode | 4:5, 1:1 | The guest's sharpest line, 3–6 words; the guest's name; the logo with PODCAST | Polyamine 124 px (108 square); name Apfel Grotezk Mittel 54 (48); PODCAST in Polyamine after the lockup, at the height of its capitals |
| Quote card | 4:5, 1:1 | A quote of up to about 20 words, and its source | Restora 84 px (72 square) for quotes over ten words; Polyamine if ten or fewer; source Apfel 30, capitals |
| Announcement | 4:5 | Series, a 2–4 word title, when, one line of detail | Series Apfel 30; title Polyamine 140; when Bricolage SemiBold 52; detail Bricolage 40 |
| Statement | 4:5, 1:1 | One line, 5–10 words | Polyamine 116 (100 square) |
| Carousel | 4:5 | Cover (a question), inner slides (a number and one idea), closing slide (the call to action) | Cover Polyamine 132; number Restora 240; inner text Bricolage Medium 56; close Polyamine 136 |
All text is ink #1b1916; secondary lines muted #5d584f. Left edge at x 90 for everything. The logo is the horizontal lockup (element-logo-lockup.png), 340 px wide (300 on squares and inner slides), left aligned at x 90 about 40 px under the last line of words; the guides show where.
Make a post in Canva
- New design at 1080 × 1350 (or 1080 × 1080).
- Background: drag
bg-4x5.pngonto the page and choose Set image as background. - Guides: add the matching
guides-….png, stretched to fill the page. - Words and logo: add
element-logo-lockup.pngand text boxes in the fonts and sizes above, inside the pink boxes, left aligned at x 90. Shorten the words rather than shrinking the type: nothing under about 36 px, so it reads on a phone. - Photo (podcast posts): upload a head-and-shoulders photo, Edit photo → BG Remover (Canva Pro), Adjust → Saturation −100, and place it in the face box, shoulders running off the bottom edge.
- Delete the guides, then Share → Download → PNG.
For a carousel, make one design with several pages: the cover and closing slides on bg-4x5, the inner slides on bg-4x5-quiet.
Set up once
- Fonts in the Canva brand kit: Polyamine and Restora (upload once they are licensed), Bricolage Grotesque (free, Google Fonts; announcements and carousel text) and Apfel Grotezk (free, Collletttivo; names and labels). The files are in
system/fonts/. - Colours: ink
#1b1916, muted#5d584f. The red comes only from the logo and the fingerprints. - Save one design per template as a team template.
Rules in short
One idea per post; five to ten words on the image at most, the rest in the caption. The logo always sits under the words. No other colours, arrows or stickers. Samples on the examples (dates, the guest photo, the carousel text) are placeholders.
Rebuilding
./export.sh runs build.py (one page per PNG in src/) and screenshots each with headless Chrome into png/. Positions and sizes are at the top of build.py and in the template list T.