YouTube Thumbnail Maker
Make a 1280 × 720 YouTube thumbnail free in your browser.
No account No watermark 1280 × 720
Thumbnails do most of the work of getting a video clicked. Start from the correct 1280 × 720 canvas, drop in a frame from your video, add heavy text with an outline or shadow so it reads at small sizes, and export.
What people use it for
- Bold text over a screenshot from your video
- A consistent thumbnail style across a series
- A/B testing two versions of the same thumbnail
Questions
- What size should a YouTube thumbnail be?
- 1280 × 720 pixels, 16:9, under 2 MB. This tool opens at exactly that size.
- Why does my text look unreadable?
- Thumbnails are shown very small in feeds. Use few words, a heavy weight, and an outline or drop shadow, all available in the text effects panel here.
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