Creators & events

Cooking Video Thumbnail Template

A YouTube thumbnail for recipe and cooking channels. An overhead food photo fills the frame, with the dish on the left and a dark fade on the right that holds a yellow tag, a huge uppercase title, a hook line and a white chip showing the cooking time.

Use this template Browse all templates

Opens your own copy in the Liena editor — the original stays untouched. Free with a Liena account; downloads on the free plan include a small watermark.

Format: YouTube thumbnail
Size: 1280 × 720 px (16:9)
Fonts: Barlow
Colours
Editable layers: 9
Export: PNG, full resolution

Design details

The dish stays fully visible on the left, while the right side fades to near-black so the white title reads at any size. Barlow's tall, slightly condensed capitals fit a big title into half the frame. Yellow is the only accent, matching the pasta and standing out against the dark ground.

Best for

Quick recipe and weeknight dinner videos
Cooking series and themed playlists
Food blog video embeds
Shorts covers for recipe clips

How to customise it

Replace the pasta with a frame or still of your own dish, placed on the left.
Keep the title to two or three words so it reads at small sizes.
Change the tag and the cooking time for each video.
Recolour the yellow to your channel colour.

Everything in this template is editable

This isn’t a flat image. The design opens as 9 separate layers you can select and change individually.

4 text layers

Double-click to rewrite. Change font (Barlow by default), size, weight, line height, letter spacing, alignment, case, colour and shadow.

1 image

Replace with your own upload, then crop, zoom, pan, flip, round the corners and adjust brightness, contrast, saturation or blur.

3 shapes

Recolour fills with any hex or brand colour, change opacity and corner radius, or resize and rotate decorative elements.

1 icon

Recolour, resize or delete icons, and add new ones from the built-in Iconify icon search.

Layers & layout

Drag to move, resize from any handle, rotate, nudge with arrow keys, reorder or hide layers, duplicate and delete — with undo and redo.

Background & brand

Change the background colour or add a background image, and recolour any shape or text to match your style.

How to use this template

Click “Use this template”. If you’re new to Liena, create a free account first — you’ll come straight back to this design.
Edit the text, replace images and adjust colours. Changes save automatically every 30 seconds, or press Save at any time.
Export a PNG at 1280 × 720 px. Your design stays in your dashboard to edit again later.