Knowledge Base Article
The image used for Featured Items in Knowledge (and maybe blogs?) is the tricky one. It's part of the responsive setup with featured items.
By default featured item widget uses:
* place icon if no images in content
* first image found in the content (usually this looks terrible in a featured item post)
* Images found in Article Summary.
Since Article Summary doesn't appear to be used anywhere that WE care about in the community itself, I use this purely to include what was previously called Cover Photo in Classic.
My preferred sizing turns out to be a 2:1 ratio (e.g., 600x300 jpg).
If you have words on it that you don't want cut off use a margin buffer around the edge sorta like this. No precise measurements here but i'd estimate that to be about 1/8th the width on each side and ~1/5th the height on each side.
(precision is not accuracy