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YouTube Thumbnail Template

A YouTube thumbnail built for small screens, where most views are decided. Three words do the work: a huge “30 DAYS”, a tilted red banner and a short question that creates curiosity. A big arrow points at the creator’s reaction, and a small channel mark keeps the series recognisable.

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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: Poppins
Colours
Editable layers: 9
Export: PNG, full resolution

Design details

Yellow, black and red are the highest-contrast combination for thumbnails and stay readable at 168 × 94 pixels in search results. Poppins Bold is used at very large sizes with tight tracking. The red banner is rotated a few degrees to add energy; the portrait sits on a black panel so any photo stands out.

Best for

Challenge and experiment videos
Before-and-after and transformation content
Vlogs, reviews and reaction videos
Consistent thumbnails for a series

How to customise it

Replace the illustrated face with your own reaction shot.
Keep the main text to three or four words — it needs to read at phone size.
Rotate the banner and arrow from the properties panel to fit your composition.
Change “MORNING LAB” to your channel or series name.

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 (Poppins 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.

2 shapes

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

2 icons

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 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.