Video

YouTube thumbnail

Make a bold video thumbnail with a big title, a presenter photo, and one badge.

File types: PNGJPEGWebP
Size: 1280 × 720 px
Use case: Video
Licence: Free to copy and use in your own templates
Source: Made by thirds.ai with the open-licence Anton font, original graphic marks, fictional sample names, and an original AI-generated example photo.

A wide YouTube thumbnail with a hot pink background, a bold black headline reading Build a budget that sticks, a black Episode 12 tag and Full tutorial pill, and a presenter photo edged in yellow. — youtube-thumbnail/template.html

About this design

What you can make with it.

Creators use this for a new video episode on their channel. It shows a presenter photo next to a bold title and an episode badge. Swap the title, the episode tag, the badge, and the photo for each video.

Your details

What you can change.

These are the words and numbers you swap for your own. The design stays the same.

ChannelA short text.
TagA short text.
HeadlineA short text.
BadgeA short text.
NoteA short text.
PhotoA short text.
LogoA short text.

{
  "channel": "The Money Edit",
  "tag": "Episode 12",
  "headline": "Build a budget that sticks",
  "badge": "Full tutorial",
  "note": "12 minutes, plain English"
}

For developers

Make this file from your code or your AI tools.

Save your copy once, then send the new details with each request. Each finished file costs 1 credit.

curl https://thirds.ai/v1/image \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THIRDS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: youtube-thumbnail-1" \
  -d '{"template_id":"tpl_your_copy","version":1,"data":{"channel":"The Money Edit","tag":"Episode 12","headline":"Build a budget that sticks","badge":"Full tutorial","note":"12 minutes, plain English"},"image":{"format":"png","width":1280,"height":720}}'

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "render",
    "arguments": {
      "output": "png",
      "idempotency_key": "youtube-thumbnail-1",
      "request": {
        "template_id": "tpl_your_copy",
        "version": 1,
        "data": {
          "channel": "The Money Edit",
          "tag": "Episode 12",
          "headline": "Build a budget that sticks",
          "badge": "Full tutorial",
          "note": "12 minutes, plain English"
        },
        "image": {
          "width": 1280,
          "height": 720
        }
      }
    }
  }
}