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 Bebas Neue font, original graphic marks, fictional sample names, and an original AI-generated example photo.

Three brands

Give every client this design in their own brand.

Add a client's logo, colours, and fonts in one step, and you've got a file that looks made just for them, with no new design to build.

About this design

What you can make with it.

Each new video gets a bold title beside your own photo in this wide thumbnail. An episode tag sits above the title and a short label sits below it. Swap in the new title and photo for every upload.

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.

{
  "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 design once, then your code or AI tool sends the details and gets the finished file back. Each one 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
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Edit this template

Open it in the editor, put your brand on it, and keep it with your own templates. Your first 50 credits each month are free.

Use this template

Try it with your details