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Travel Vlog Thumbnail Template

A YouTube thumbnail for travel, hiking and adventure videos. An epic landscape photo fills the frame, with a dark fade on the left that holds a huge uppercase title, an orange episode tag and a location line. A runtime badge in the bottom-right corner makes it look at home in the feed.

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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: Oswald, Inter
Colours
Editable layers: 8
Export: PNG, full resolution

Design details

Thumbnails are viewed tiny, so the title is set very large in Oswald, a condensed typeface that fits four big lines into half the frame. The left-to-right fade keeps the text on dark ground while the mountains stay bright on the right. Orange is the only accent, so the episode tag stands out against the cool blues of the photo.

Best for

Travel vlogs and destination guides
Hiking, camping and outdoor adventure videos
Series episodes and season openers
Shorts covers and community post images

How to customise it

Replace the landscape with a frame from your own video.
Keep the title to six words or fewer so it reads at small sizes.
Change the episode number and runtime for each upload.
Delete the runtime badge if you prefer YouTube's own timestamp.

Everything in this template is editable

This isn’t a flat image. The design opens as 8 separate layers you can select and change individually.

4 text layers

Double-click to rewrite. Change font (Oswald, Inter 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.

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 apply colours and logos from your Liena brand kit.

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.