Quote cards from your content: articles, talks, podcasts and customers

Quote cards are the most reused format in content marketing: a sentence from an article, a speaker's line from a conference, the best minute of a podcast episode, a customer's words. Each card is the same design with a new quote, author and photo — which makes it a template job. With Shareglint you keep your quote layout as a template and render cards from wherever the quotes already live: a CMS field, a spreadsheet of talk highlights, show notes, a review export.

Templates for quotes

All of them render in every size preset (og 1200×630, square 1080×1080, portrait 1080×1350, story 1080×1920, pinterest 1000×1500, youtube 1280×720) and take accent and theme. See them side by side on the quote templates page.

One quote, every size

curl -X POST "https://shareglint.com/v1/images?wait=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "template": "quote-og",
    "sizes": ["square", "portrait", "story"],
    "format": "jpeg",
    "modifications": {
      "quote": "Ship the boring version first. The clever one can wait for users.",
      "author": "Ana Ruiz",
      "role": "CTO, Northwind",
      "photo": "https://cdn.example.com/people/ana.jpg"
    }
  }'

The square card goes to LinkedIn and the feed, the 4:5 to Instagram, the 9:16 to stories. JPEG is the right format when a tool will post to Instagram, because its publishing API accepts only JPEG (Meta for Developers; more in Instagram posts). The same values again return the same file at no cost.

Where the quotes come from

Articles. Many CMSs let editors mark a pull quote. Add the pull quote, the author and the article URL to a publish webhook, and the card is ready when the article is. On a static site, a build step can render one card per post from front matter.

Talks and events. After a conference, collect the best line from each talk in a spreadsheet — speaker, title, photo — and send it as a batch: one card per talk, all of them in one ZIP. Rows per batch by plan: Free 50, Starter 500, Pro 1,000, Scale 2,000, Business 5,000. The event graphics page covers speaker cards for before the event.

Podcasts. A line per episode with its timestamp, rendered with podcast-quote, makes a release-week post that sends people to the right minute (podcasts).

Customers. Testimonials from your review platform's export, with the star rating, become testimonial-stars cards (review images).

An AI assistant. Connected through the MCP server, Claude or ChatGPT can pick five quotable lines from a transcript you paste and render them as square cards — you approve the lines, it makes the images.

Good quote cards

• Short beats complete. A card is read in a second or two. One or two sentences; cut, do not shrink.
• Attribution matters. Name, role and a recognisable photo make a quote credible. For customers, use what they agreed to — some prefer first name and company only.
• Keep the words exact. Do not "improve" a quote. If you shorten it, use an ellipsis and keep the meaning.
• One design per series. A consistent template makes a quote series recognisable in the feed; vary the accent per campaign rather than the layout.
• Typography. Quotes are type-heavy: PNG keeps edges crisp for flat backgrounds, JPEG at a higher quality is fine for photo backgrounds.

A quote series in a week

A practical rhythm for a content team: every Monday, an editor picks five lines from last week's articles, talks or episodes and adds them to a sheet with the author, role and photo URL. A batch renders the five cards in the square and story sizes, and the social scheduler spreads them over the week. Because the same values return the same files, adding a sixth line on Wednesday and running the batch again renders only the new card. Over a quarter, that is a consistent, recognisable series without a single design file — and a spreadsheet that doubles as the archive of what you posted.

Quotes as link previews

A quote card also makes a strong og:image for an interview or opinion piece: the quote is the most shareable thing on the page. Put a signed URL with the article's pull quote into the page's og:image, and every share shows the quote instead of a generic photo (signed image URLs).

Cost

One render per card and size; repeats are free. A weekly quote series in three sizes is about 13 renders a month; a conference recap with 40 talks in two sizes is 80, once. The Free plan's 100 renders carry a watermark; Starter is $9 a month for 2,000 renders (pricing).

What it does not do

• It does not choose the quotes or check them; the text on the card is the text you send.
• It does not post to social networks; your scheduler does that with the image URLs.
• It does not generate portraits; photos come from URLs you provide.

For the rules on reusing other people's words, the US Copyright Office's fair use index is a starting point; outside the US, local law applies, and asking permission is the simple way to avoid the question. For quotes from public figures used in advertising, publicity rights may apply too — check before running quote cards as ads.