Instagram Carousel Safe Zone Spacing Guide
# Instagram Carousel Safe Zone Spacing Guide
Keep your text, logos, and CTAs clear of Instagram's UI on every slide. Learn the exact pixel margins and safe area rules for carousel posts. Apply them once and nothing important gets cropped again.
- Carousel formats covered: Square, portrait & landscape
- Safe zone edges to know: Top, bottom, left & right
- Export formats supported: High-res PNG & PDF
Every carousel slide you publish arrives on screen already partially occupied. Instagram's interface chrome — the username bar sitting across the top, the like/comment/share row anchored at the bottom, the swipe-indicator dots, and the ad disclosure label on sponsored posts — all render on top of your image. None of it moves out of the way for your headline. None of it checks whether your CTA sits underneath it.
The result is predictable: a pull quote clipped by the action-button row, a logo nudged into the corner where the profile icon renders, a spanning panoramic that breaks apart at the swipe edge because the designer measured from the canvas boundary instead of the interface-safe boundary. These are not compression artifacts or upload errors. They are safe zone failures, and they happen before a single viewer swipes.
This guide exists to prevent that. It covers the three carousel formats Instagram supports in 2026 — 1080 × 1350 px portrait (4:5), 1080 × 1080 px square (1:1), and 1080 × 566 px landscape (1.91:1) — and gives you the exact pixel margins for each. It maps which interface elements occupy which edges, distinguishes the safe zone from the bleed zone from the swipe continuity strip, and walks through per-element clearance rules for text, CTAs, logos, and faces rather than offering a single blanket margin figure.
# Instagram Carousel Safe Zone Spacing Guide
Keep your text, logos, and CTAs clear of Instagram's UI on every slide. Learn the exact pixel margins and safe area rules for carousel posts. Apply them once and nothing important gets cropped again.
At a glance
- Carousel formats covered: Square, portrait & landscape
- Safe zone edges to know: Top, bottom, left & right
- Export formats supported: High-res PNG & PDF
The 2026 Instagram Carousel Safe Zone Spacing Guide: Every Margin, Every Format, One Reference
Every carousel slide you publish arrives on screen already partially occupied. Instagram's interface chrome — the username bar sitting across the top, the like/comment/share row anchored at the bottom, the swipe-indicator dots, and the ad disclosure label on sponsored posts — all render on top of your image. None of it moves out of the way for your headline. None of it checks whether your CTA sits underneath it.
The result is predictable: a pull quote clipped by the action-button row, a logo nudged into the corner where the profile icon renders, a spanning panoramic that breaks apart at the swipe edge because the designer measured from the canvas boundary instead of the interface-safe boundary. These are not compression artifacts or upload errors. They are safe zone failures, and they happen before a single viewer swipes.
This guide exists to prevent that. It covers the three carousel formats Instagram supports in 2026 — 1080 × 1350 px portrait (4:5), 1080 × 1080 px square (1:1), and 1080 × 566 px landscape (1.91:1) — and gives you the exact pixel margins for each. It maps which interface elements occupy which edges, distinguishes the safe zone from the bleed zone from the swipe continuity strip, and walks through per-element clearance rules for text, CTAs, logos, and faces rather than offering a single blanket margin figure.
Whether you are setting up a Figma artboard for the first time, auditing a client's existing carousel before it goes live as an ad, or designing a ten-slide narrative where a visual thread has to survive every swipe without touching a UI element, the numbers and decision criteria you need are here in one place.
Safe Zone Specs by Format: Square, Portrait, and Vertical Carousel Slides Compared
Not all carousel formats share the same risk profile. The interface chrome that overlaps your slide — username bar at the top, like/comment/share icons and swipe-indicator dots at the bottom — occupies a fixed pixel height regardless of whether your canvas is square, portrait, or landscape. That means a single blanket margin figure will either over-constrain a portrait slide or leave a square slide dangerously exposed. Here is how the numbers break down by format.
1:1 Square — 1080 × 1080 px
Keep all critical content within a centered 1000 × 1000 px safe area, which translates to 60 px of inset on every edge. The top 60 px clears the username and location tag overlay, which sits approximately 40–50 px from the top. The bottom 60 px clears the action icons and slide-indicator dots, which occupy roughly 50–60 px from the bottom. Anything outside the 1000 × 1000 boundary is in the bleed zone — safe for background texture or decorative elements, but not for text, CTAs, or logos. Note that square slides leave a strip of the next feed post visible below, which can pull attention away before a viewer finishes reading your slide.
4:5 Portrait — 1080 × 1350 px
The recommended safe area here is 1000 × 1270 px, centered on the canvas — meaning 80 px inset top and bottom, 60 px inset on each side. The extra vertical inset compared to square accounts for the fact that portrait slides fill nearly the full phone screen, making the bottom UI chrome more visually prominent. The first slide carries an additional constraint: treat the lower third as off-limits for must-read text because caption text and action icons cluster there. Portrait format also creates a profile-grid complication — the grid crops each slide to a center square, hiding approximately 135 px from the top and bottom — so any element you need visible in the grid preview must sit within the central 1080 × 1080 px region.
1.91:1 Landscape — 1080 × 566 px
This format is the most compressed vertically, so the safe zone insets are tighter: 40 px top, 50 px bottom, and 60 px on each side. The asymmetric top-to-bottom inset reflects the heavier UI presence at the bottom. Given the shallow canvas height, landscape carousels leave almost no room for multi-line body copy within the safe area — this format suits single-line headlines or image-led slides with minimal text.
9:16 Vertical Video in Mixed Carousels — 1080 × 1920 px
When a carousel mixes video and photo slides, video playback controls — a progress bar at the bottom and a mute button in the corner — add to the standard chrome. Treat an additional 80–100 px at the bottom and 60 px in the top-right corner as UI-occupied territory on any video slide, stacking those clearances on top of the standard safe zone insets.
Every format requires that all slides share the same aspect ratio; the first slide sets the crop for every slide that follows, so choosing your format before you open a design file is not a stylistic preference — it is a structural requirement.
How to Set Up Instagram Carousel Safe Zone Guides in Your Design Tool (2026 Walkthrough)
Before placing a single element, you need guides that map to real Instagram UI — not just aesthetic margins. Here is how to configure them in the three tools most designers use, with exact coordinates for the 4:5 portrait format (1080 × 1350 px), which is the recommended carousel size for 2026.
Figma
Create a new frame at 1080 × 1350 px. Open Layout Grid settings and add three grids:
- A column grid: 2 columns, gutter 960 px, offset 60 px each side. This enforces the 60 px side margin that keeps content clear of the frame edge and the swipe-gesture hit area.
- A row grid: set top margin to 80 px and bottom margin to 80 px. The top guide clears the username and location bar (~40–50 px) with buffer; the bottom guide clears the like/comment/share icons and slide indicator dots (~50–60 px) with buffer.
- A third horizontal guide at Y = 900 px (roughly the lower-third boundary). On slide one specifically, treat everything below this line as off-limits for must-read text because the caption overlay sits there.
Save this frame as a Figma component so every new carousel slide inherits the guides automatically.
Adobe Express
Open a custom-size canvas at 1080 × 1350 px. Use the ruler (View → Rulers) to drag horizontal guides to Y = 80 and Y = 1270, and vertical guides to X = 60 and X = 1020. These four lines define the 1000 × 1270 px safe content area for portrait carousels. Lock the guides before designing so they cannot be accidentally moved.
Canva
Canva does not support custom ruler guides natively in 2026, so the practical workaround is to create a transparent rectangle element sized 1000 × 1270 px, center it on the 1080 × 1350 canvas, set its border to a bright color, and lock it to the background layer. Every text block, CTA button, and logo must sit inside that rectangle. Delete the rectangle before exporting.
For 1:1 square carousels (1080 × 1080 px), adjust the row guides to Y = 60 and Y = 1020, keeping the same 60 px side margins to produce the 1000 × 1000 px safe area. For landscape (1080 × 566 px), set top to 40 px, bottom to 50 px, and sides to 60 px per the format-specific padding specs.
If you use Veeso AI to generate slide visuals, export the artboard at the correct canvas size first, then place the output inside your locked safe zone frame before finalizing — the guides remain your source of truth regardless of how the visual was created.
Safe Zone vs. Bleed Zone vs. Swipe Continuity Area: Why the Distinctions Matter for Carousel Design
Designers who treat "safe zone" as a synonym for "margin" tend to make one of two opposite errors: they either push every element so far from the edge that the slide feels cramped and airless, or they use the safe zone figure as a loose suggestion and let background fills stop short of the canvas edge, producing a thin white border on upload. Both errors come from collapsing three functionally different spatial zones into one vague concept. Here is what each zone actually means and what belongs inside it.
The safe zone is the interior rectangle where all critical content — headlines, body copy, CTAs, logos, faces, data labels — must be placed to avoid being obscured by Instagram's interface chrome or cropped by the platform's aspect-ratio enforcement. The chrome itself is not enormous, but it is precise: the username and location tag sit approximately 40–50 px from the top edge, and the like/comment/share buttons plus swipe-indicator dots occupy approximately 50–60 px from the bottom edge. The safe zone margins recommended for each format absorb those overlays with additional breathing room:
- Portrait (4:5) at 1080 × 1350 px: 80 px top, 80 px bottom, 60 px each side — yielding a 1000 × 1270 px safe interior
- Square (1:1) at 1080 × 1080 px: 60 px on all four sides — yielding a 1000 × 1000 px safe interior
- Landscape (1.91:1) at 1080 × 566 px: 40 px top, 50 px bottom, 60 px each side
The decision rule is simple: if a viewer must read it, tap it, or recognize it, it lives inside the safe zone. No exceptions for "it looks fine on my screen" — Instagram renders on hundreds of device sizes, and the chrome proportions do not scale down on smaller displays.
The bleed zone is everything between the safe zone boundary and the canvas edge. Background colors, full-bleed photography, gradient fills, and texture layers belong here. Extending these elements all the way to the pixel edge of the canvas prevents the white-border artifact that appears when a background stops short. The bleed zone carries no critical information precisely because it may be partially obscured by chrome or, in the profile grid view, cropped entirely. For portrait carousels, the profile grid crops approximately 135 px from both the top and bottom of each slide, turning a 4:5 frame into a center square — meaning any element placed between px 0–135 or px 1215–1350 vertically is invisible in grid view. That is bleed territory by definition, regardless of how important the content feels in isolation.
The swipe continuity area is a narrower concept specific to carousels: the left and right edges of a slide where a spanning visual — a panoramic photograph, a progress timeline, a color-gradient thread — crosses the slide boundary to create the illusion of a connected canvas across multiple swipes. This strip is typically 60–120 px wide on each side, overlapping with the side margins of the safe zone. The critical design constraint here is that no text, icon, or CTA can occupy the swipe continuity area, because that strip will be partially off-screen on the current slide and partially off-screen on the adjacent slide simultaneously. A spanning illustration can cross this boundary because the viewer's eye reconstructs it across the swipe; a sentence cannot, because half the words disappear mid-read.
The practical workflow implication: build your artboard with all three zones marked as separate guide layers. Fill the bleed zone first with your background. Place spanning visual elements so they cross the slide edge within the continuity strip but carry no readable content there. Then place every text and interactive element inside the safe zone interior, with additional clearance at the bottom of the first slide where the caption and action icons are densest.
Per-Element Clearance Rules: Text, CTAs, Logos, and Faces on Carousel Slides
A safe zone boundary tells you where the canvas is protected from UI chrome. It does not tell you how close each type of element can get to that boundary before it becomes hard to read, hard to tap, or visually swallowed by a competing interface element. The rules below apply within the safe zone, not from the raw canvas edge.
Body Copy
Body text should sit at least 60 px from the safe zone boundary on all four sides — which, on a 4:5 portrait slide, means roughly 140 px from the physical top and bottom edges and 120 px from the sides. At a 24 px font size, a 4:5 portrait canvas supports approximately 8–12 lines of body copy within those clearances; a 1:1 square supports roughly 6–8 lines. If your copy exceeds those line counts, split it across two slides rather than shrinking the font — compression artifacts from Instagram's image processing make small type on busy backgrounds especially hard to read.
Headlines
Headline type can sit closer to the safe zone boundary than body copy — a 40 px internal margin is workable — but never place a headline in the bottom quarter of any slide. That region is where the like, comment, share, and send buttons, plus the swipe-indicator dots, sit approximately 50–60 px from the bottom edge. On the first slide specifically, a headline placed in the lower third risks being visually merged with the caption preview text, which appears just below the image frame.
CTA Buttons
Tappable CTAs require a minimum touch target of 44 × 44 px per accessibility guidelines — but on a carousel slide, the practical minimum is larger because users are swiping, not tapping with precision. Design CTA buttons at no smaller than 48 × 48 px and keep them at least 80 px from the bottom safe zone boundary. On sponsored carousels, Instagram renders a "Sponsored" label and sometimes a "Follow" button overlay in the top-right corner of the image, occupying roughly 60–80 px from the top-right. Keep CTA buttons away from that corner entirely.
Brand Logos
Logos placed in the top-left corner are the most common casualty of the username overlay, which sits approximately 40–50 px from the top of the slide. A logo needs at least 30 px of clear space around it beyond the safe zone inset — so on a 4:5 portrait slide, the top edge of a logo should sit no higher than 110 px from the canvas top (80 px safe zone inset + 30 px logo clearance). Bottom-center is a more reliable logo position on interior slides, where it avoids both the top username bar and the top-right sponsored overlay.
Human Faces
Faces are not interactive elements, but they carry visual weight that makes cropping or partial overlap by UI chrome feel jarring. Keep the eyes and upper face of any subject within the vertical center 60% of the safe area. On a 4:5 portrait slide, that means the eye line should fall between approximately 450 px and 900 px from the canvas top. Faces positioned near the bottom safe zone boundary risk having the chin or lower face obscured by the swipe-indicator dots, which is a subtle but noticeable quality signal to viewers.
Applying these clearances consistently across all slides — not just slide one — is what separates a polished carousel from one that looks assembled in a hurry.
Who Needs a Carousel Safe Zone Reference — and What Each Audience Gets Wrong
Safe zone rules are not one-size-fits-all. The mistake a brand manager makes is structurally different from the one a paid media designer makes, and treating them as the same problem produces guidance that is too vague to act on.
Brand social media managers running organic carousels
Their most common error is over-relying on the caption to carry context that should be in the slide. Because the caption sits below the image, they leave the lower third of slide one deliberately sparse — which is correct — but then they crowd slides two through ten with text that runs to the bottom edge, assuming the caption is no longer a risk. In reality, the like/comment/share bar and swipe indicator dots occupy roughly 50–60 px at the bottom of every slide, not just the first. Every slide needs the same bottom clearance.
Paid media designers submitting ad carousels
Ad carousels carry sponsored labels and occasionally call-to-action buttons injected by the platform, which sit in positions that organic posts do not have. Designers who copy their organic safe zone template into an ad submission often find that a CTA button they designed gets visually buried under Instagram's own ad CTA overlay. The fix is to treat the bottom 250 px as a hard exclusion zone for any designed CTA in ad formats, not just a soft buffer.
Freelancers building client templates
Freelancers typically build one master template and hand it off. The failure mode here is building for a single format — usually 1:1 square — without documenting that the first slide's aspect ratio locks every subsequent slide. A client who later adds a portrait-ratio image to an existing square carousel will trigger inconsistent cropping across the whole post. The template handoff should include a written constraint: all slides must match the format of slide one, and the safe zone guides differ by format — 60 px all sides for square, 80 px top/bottom and 60 px sides for portrait.
Creators producing long-form educational carousel series
This group is the most likely to use edge-to-edge spanning visuals — a timeline, a progress bar, or a continuous illustration that bleeds across all ten slides. The specific failure is designing the spanning element at the very bottom of the canvas to create a visual thread, then discovering that the swipe indicator dots appear at the bottom of every slide and sit directly on top of it. The spanning element must be anchored above the bottom safe zone boundary — for portrait format, above Y = 1270 — or it will be partially obscured on every slide except, perhaps, the last. Running a progress bar at mid-canvas height, rather than at the bottom edge, is the structurally safer choice.
Carousel Safe Zone FAQs: Answered for Feed Posts, Ads, and Mixed-Format Slides
What is the safe zone for an Instagram carousel slide? It depends on the format. For a portrait (4:5) slide at 1080 × 1350 px, the safe interior is 1000 × 1270 px — 80 px clearance top and bottom, 60 px on each side. For a square (1:1) slide, it is 1000 × 1000 px — 60 px on all sides. For landscape (1.91:1), use 40 px top, 50 px bottom, 60 px each side.
How much margin should I leave on Instagram carousel posts? Side margins are consistent across formats at a minimum of 60 px. Vertical margins vary: 80 px top and bottom for portrait, 60 px for square, 40 px top and 50 px bottom for landscape. On the first slide specifically, treat the lower third as off-limits for must-read text because caption text and action icons stack there.
How do I keep text readable across all carousel slides? Anchor all body copy and headlines inside the safe zone interior and center key messages vertically when possible. For portrait slides, this supports approximately 8–12 lines of body copy at 24 px font size within the safe area. Export text-heavy slides as PNG rather than JPG to preserve letter-edge sharpness after Instagram's compression.
What parts of an Instagram carousel get covered by the UI? The username and location tag cover roughly 40–50 px at the top; the like/comment/share buttons and swipe-indicator dots cover roughly 50–60 px at the bottom. On sponsored carousels, an ad disclosure label adds additional top-edge clearance demand — treat the top safe zone as more conservative for paid placements.
How do I maintain visual continuity between carousel swipes? Designate a swipe continuity strip of 60–120 px on the left and right edges of each slide for spanning visuals only. Keep that strip free of text and tappable elements. All slides in a carousel must share the same aspect ratio — mixing formats causes Instagram to crop subsequent slides to match the first, which will break any spanning visual you have planned.
What is the difference between the safe zone and the bleed zone on Instagram? The safe zone is the interior rectangle where critical content lives, protected from UI chrome. The bleed zone is the area between the safe zone boundary and the canvas edge — used for background fills and non-critical visuals that extend to the pixel edge to prevent white borders. Nothing that must be read or tapped belongs in the bleed zone.
Does the Instagram safe zone differ between feed carousels and Reels carousels? Yes. Feed carousel safe zones follow the format-specific margins above. Reels and video carousels carry more aggressive UI overlays — playback controls, progress bars, and audio indicators — that encroach further into the frame, particularly at the bottom. Apply the feed carousel margins as a floor, not a ceiling, when designing for mixed photo-video carousel formats.
How do I set up safe zone guides in my design tool for Instagram carousels? In Figma, use the Layout Grid panel to add column and row guides matching your format's safe zone margins as fixed-pixel offsets from each edge. In Canva, enable ruler guides and drag them to the safe zone boundaries manually. Lock the guide layer before designing. Tools like Veeso AI can generate pre-configured carousel artboards with safe zone frames already in place, which is useful when you need a consistent starting template across a multi-slide series without rebuilding guides from scratch each time.
Start Your Next Carousel with Safe Zones Already Built In
Reading a spec sheet and applying it are two different tasks. The gap between them is where most carousel mistakes happen — not because designers don't know the rules, but because checking clearances manually on every slide of a 10-slide carousel is tedious enough that it gets skipped under deadline pressure. A single misplaced headline on slide three, or a logo drifting into the sponsored-overlay corner on slide seven, can undermine work that is otherwise well-crafted.
The more durable fix is to make safe zone compliance the default state of your artboard rather than a final audit step. That means building your canvas with margin guides already set to the correct insets for your chosen format — 80 px top and bottom, 60 px sides for 4:5 portrait; 60 px all around for 1:1 square — before you place a single element. It means locking those guides so they cannot be accidentally nudged. And it means carrying the same guide structure across every slide in the deck so that a spanning visual or a recurring progress bar stays within the safe area as it crosses from slide two to slide three to slide four.
If you are building carousels regularly and want the margin gutters and slide-to-slide visual flow already structured into the artboard, Veeso AI offers editable carousel slide layouts where the safe zone boundaries are part of the template architecture rather than an afterthought. You work within a frame that already accounts for interface chrome clearance, which means your decisions about typography, imagery, and CTA placement happen inside the correct constraints from the first click — not after a round of repositioning before export.
That matters most when you are producing carousels at volume, coordinating with a client who needs to review specs, or handing off a template to someone who has not memorized the pixel values. A pre-configured artboard communicates the rules structurally, without requiring anyone to consult a separate document mid-production.
The specs in this guide — the 1000 × 1270 px portrait safe area, the 60 px side insets, the bottom-quarter exclusion zone on slide one, the per-element clearances for logos and CTAs — are stable enough to build into a reusable system. The time you spend setting that system up once is recovered on every carousel you produce afterward.
Export as PNG for text-heavy slides, JPG for photo-led slides, and confirm your color profile is set to sRGB before upload to prevent color shifts that can make carefully chosen brand colors look wrong in the feed. Those final steps are small, but they are the last place a well-spaced carousel can still go wrong.
Frequently asked questions
What is the recommended pixel size for an Instagram carousel in 2026?
The recommended Instagram carousel size for 2026 is 1080 × 1350 pixels at a 4:5 portrait aspect ratio. Instagram also supports 1080 × 1080 (1:1 square) and 1080 × 566 (1.91:1 landscape). Uploading at exactly 1080 px wide is the standard, though some designers upload at higher resolutions to survive compression better, especially on text-heavy slides. Always verify current specs directly on Instagram before publishing. (source)
What are the safe zone dimensions for a portrait (4:5) Instagram carousel?
For a 4:5 portrait carousel (1080 × 1350 px), keep all essential content within a 1000 × 1270 px center area, which means applying roughly 40 px of margin on each side and 40 px top and bottom as a baseline. A more conservative approach recommends 80 px padding on the top and bottom and 60 px on each side to clear interface overlays like the username bar and action icons. Centering your key message vertically eliminates any risk of it being hidden behind UI elements. (source)
What safe zone padding should I use for a square (1:1) Instagram carousel?
For a 1:1 square carousel (1080 × 1080 px), keep critical elements within the center 1000 × 1000 px area, giving a 40 px margin on every side as a minimum. A safer guideline is 60 px of padding on all four sides to account for the username overlay at the top and the like/comment/share icons plus slide-indicator dots at the bottom. This approach also supports approximately 6–8 lines of body copy at 24 px font size within the safe area. (source)
Where exactly do Instagram's interface overlays appear on a carousel slide?
Instagram places the username and location tag approximately 40–50 px from the top of each slide. At the bottom, like, comment, and share buttons plus the slide-indicator dots sit approximately 50–60 px from the bottom edge. Swipe indicators also appear at the bottom, so extra bottom padding is especially important. On the first slide specifically, treat the entire lower third as off-limits for must-read text, because that is where the caption preview and action icons are most prominent. (source)
What happens if I mix different aspect ratios across slides in one carousel?
Mixing aspect ratios in a single carousel causes problems because the first image sets the crop for every subsequent slide. For example, if your first slide is 1080 × 1350 (4:5) and a later slide is 1080 × 1080 (1:1), Instagram will crop the square slide to match the portrait format, cutting off content. This also makes the swipe feel jarring to viewers. To avoid content loss and a disjointed experience, every slide in your carousel must use the same aspect ratio. (source)
How does a portrait carousel affect visibility compared to a square carousel in the feed?
A 4:5 portrait carousel fills almost the entire mobile screen, pushing competing posts further down so viewers focus solely on your content. Portrait format also gives you 25% more vertical space than a square, which means more room for text, visuals, or storytelling per slide. By contrast, square slides leave a strip of the next post visible, which is a constant invitation to keep scrolling past your content. For engagement-focused carousels, portrait is generally the stronger choice. (source)
How does a portrait carousel appear on my Instagram profile grid?
On your profile grid, a 4:5 portrait carousel displays as a center-cropped square, hiding approximately 135 px from the top and 135 px from the bottom of each slide. This means any text or branding placed near the top or bottom of a portrait slide may be invisible in the grid view. To stay safe, place your most important visual elements within the center 1080 × 1080 px area of each portrait slide so they remain fully visible regardless of where someone discovers your post. (source)
Should I export carousel slides as JPG or PNG?
The right format depends on your slide content. Export text-heavy slides as PNG to preserve crisp edges on letters, icons, and shapes — Instagram's compression is harder on fine text in JPG format. Export photo-heavy slides as JPG to keep file sizes manageable without visible quality loss. Regardless of format, make sure your images use the sRGB color space before uploading; files in other color profiles can shift noticeably in hue after Instagram processes them. (source)
How many slides can I include in a single Instagram carousel post?
Instagram currently supports up to 20 slides in a single carousel post. This expanded limit gives creators significantly more room for multi-step tutorials, product showcases, or long-form storytelling compared to the previous 10-slide cap. Even with 20 slides available, applying consistent safe zone spacing on every slide remains essential — interface overlays appear on each individual slide, not just the first. Always verify the current slide limit on Instagram directly, as platform caps can change. (source)
What safe zone rules apply to a landscape (1.91:1) Instagram carousel?
For a landscape carousel at 1080 × 566 px, the recommended safe zone padding is 40 px from the top, 50 px from the bottom, and 60 px on each side. The reduced vertical height of landscape slides means there is less room to work with overall, so keeping text and logos well within those margins is especially important. Landscape carousels are less common in organic feeds but may appear in ad placements — if you are designing for ads, verify the current safe zone requirements for that specific placement directly with Instagram. (source)
