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YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Maker

Design a 1080×1920 Shorts thumbnail with bold text presets and the YouTube UI safe zone shown live — nothing hidden by Subscribe or comment buttons.

Runs in your browser
No upload on server
Free, forever

Add content
Style
Copy / download

How this works— tap to see the steps

1
Pick a template
Choose a bold Shorts layout — big text, high contrast, face-friendly.
2
Add your hook & photo
Type the headline, drop a face or product shot, tweak colours.
3
Export 1080×1920
Save the vertical thumbnail ready to upload with your Short.

Watch: pick a template, tweak text, export

Pick a vertical photo (or any photo — we'll crop 9:16)

JPG · PNG · WEBP

Tip: you can also paste an image with ⌘V / Ctrl V

Headline

22/80

Use SHORT punchy words. Press Enter for a line break.

Style

Pick a look — updates live.Position

Where the text sits inside the safe zone.

Text size — 120Big is better for mobile. Try 100–140.Show YouTube UI safe zone (red = covered by Subscribe / like / comment buttons)

How this works — and why it's private

YouTube Shorts overlays a title, channel name and action rail on top of your thumbnail. Anything in the red band gets covered on real phones. Keep the headline and any faces inside the blue dashed safe box and your thumb will read on every device.

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