Some accounts feature only a handful, while others have upwards of 10. It’s up to you how many highlight covers you want to include on your IG page. ![]() Image via New York Botanical Garden’s Instagram page. Icons and other simple designs are ideal for highlight covers because they’re easy to see at even the smallest sizes. Be Clear and PreciseĮach highlight cover has only a small viewing window, so it’s essential to make the designs clear and easy to read. Rather than use, say, a photo for one cover, an illustration for another, and an icon for the next, stick to the same style across your Instagram story covers.ĭoing so will make your collection easier to follow and more visually appealing. If your goal is to get users to watch your highlights-which, duh, why else would you save them?-then you need to entice them with an attractive highlight cover.Īesthetics are everything on Instagram, and in order to establish a strong aesthetic, you have to be consistent. Tips for Designing Your Instagram Highlight Covers That’s it for the subgenre right now, but I imagine we’ll be seeing more very soon! Want to explore more in the realm of social horror? Check out this previous post of mine on how horror comics are a fabulous medium for digging into real-life horrors.Get Started with FREE Instagram Story Templates But it still contains dark themes of loving and/or hating the skin we’re in and feeling that the way we look doesn’t always match up with who we are deep down inside. ![]() (It also features an amazing cover of “You Sexy Thing” performed by Zella Day, with which I’m obsessed.) The comic itself is a bit different, with the protagonist being a charismatic woman who actually sells the lotion at house parties. This episode follows an awkward young woman who goes to extreme lengths to fit in at work, using a popular skin lotion that has an alarming effect. The last work I’m going to recommend is a short horror comic by Emily Carroll, which inspired “The Outside,” the fourth episode of the delightful horror anthology series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosity. Is it any surprise that social horror is such a massive (and massively popular) subgenre? And that was just from scrolling briefly through my Instagram feed. ![]() Witches? Werewolves? Sadistic clowns who prey upon the nightmares of children? Pshaw! In my humble opinion, the darkest and most terrifying horrors are those that lie within the human heart.ĭon’t believe me? Click on over to your preferred news outlet, and you’ll see stories about colonization, hate crimes, domestic violence, the devastating effects of (human-caused) climate change. You can learn more at and follow her on Insta/Threads at All posts by Steph Auteri When not working, she enjoys yoga, embroidery, singing, cat snuggling, and staring at the birds in her backyard feeder. She also writes bookish stuff here and at the Feminist Book Club, is the author of A Dirty Word, and is the founder of Guerrilla Sex Ed. Her essay, "The Fear That Lives Next to My Heart," published in Southwest Review, was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021. ![]() Her more creative work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, under the gum tree, Poets & Writers, and other publications, and she is the Essays Editor for Hippocampus Magazine. Steph Auteri is a journalist who has written for the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Pacific Standard, VICE, and elsewhere.
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