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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/thumbnail-backgrounds · creator · 3 readings

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 livestream announcement graphic
a base layer for a thumbnail editor
a matching set across a channel's uploads

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: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each one shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Toile has no generation wired to this page yet — nothing here is made to order, and there is no account, no upload, nothing to buy. What you see is what exists. 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.