What size does the background export at?

Each design renders at 1344 by 768 pixels, close to YouTube's standard 1280×720 thumbnail canvas.

Is there really no text or face on it?

Correct — every background is empty of text, numbers and people by design, meant as a backdrop to add a cut-out subject and headline onto afterward.

Which side is kept clear for the subject?

The left third stays calm and low-contrast on every design, matching where a face is conventionally placed on a thumbnail.

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YouTube thumbnail background templates: gaming, vlog and tech in three finishes

Thumbnail backgrounds — a cracked dark ground splitting open across the right two thirds with embers rising out of the fissure and a hot glow deep inside it, driven by a hard radial burst of alternating rays firing out from a point on the right, hard edges, no gradients, everything else flat behind it

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Reading 1Gaming

Reading 2Vlog

Reading 3Tech

A thumbnail background is a deliberate empty stage: loud color, no text, with one side left quiet for a cut-out face and a big word. These nine are built that way: a gaming crack, a vlog sky and a tech grid, each in a radial burst, soft blur or cartoon finish. Download the background, or ask for a different genre.

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a base layer for a thumbnail editor
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Frequently asked questions

What size does the background export at?: Each design renders at 1344 by 768 pixels, close to YouTube's standard 1280×720 thumbnail canvas.
Is there really no text or face on it?: Correct — every background is empty of text, numbers and people by design, meant as a backdrop to add a cut-out subject and headline onto afterward.
Which side is kept clear for the subject?: The left third stays calm and low-contrast on every design, matching where a face is conventionally placed on a thumbnail.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.