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20 eye-catching YouTube thumbnails (and how to make your own)

Posted by / November 18, 2016

With five billion YouTube videos being seen every day, it takes maximizing every advantage to get your material in front of all those eyes.

One way is with a compelling thumbnail, so Canva Design School’s Maria Jose mines the best examples for ideas you can use on your own channel.

Camie Juan

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Camie Juan has loads of fun creating content for her YouTube channel. To do so, she travels around the world and eats as much gorgeous food as she can.

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She probably also spends quite some time creating her channels great artwork. Our designers at Canva have drawn inspiration from her and the great template above.

The School of Life

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The School of Life does an awesome job of being consistent with their typefaces and treatments. It makes the channel feel professional and put together.

They’re also great at setting type at large sizes on their thumbnails to make sure it reads easily.

Full story at Canva Design School.

Designed for YouTube.

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