--- title: "YouTube thumbnail design samples in seven genres | N&D Co." description: "Seven sample YouTube thumbnails by N&D Co. for fitness, food, travel, gaming, beauty, money and DIY videos, including a Day 1 and Day 30 fitness split." url: "https://ndcompany.in/projects/youtube-thumbnail-series" type: "CreativeWork" image: "https://ndcompany.in/assets/projects/youtube-thumbnail-series-16x9.png" --- Design # YouTube thumbnail design samples in seven video genres Seven YouTube thumbnails for videos on fitness, food, travel, gaming, beauty, money and DIY. - **Service:** [Graphic Design](https://ndcompany.in/services/graphic-design) - **Category:** [Design](https://ndcompany.in/projects/category/design) - **Platform:** YouTube - **Thumbnails shown:** 7 - **Genres:** Fitness, food, travel, gaming, beauty, personal finance, DIY - **Shape:** Landscape, close to 16:9 ## Overview This page shows seven samples of our YouTube thumbnail design: one each for a fitness transformation series, quick desserts, a Bali travel guide, gaming highlights, an everyday makeup tutorial, money saving hacks and easy DIY projects. We name no client and publish no view or click figures for them. Thumbnail design is part of our [graphic design](https://ndcompany.in/services/graphic-design) work, alongside the posters and ad creatives in our other [design projects](https://ndcompany.in/projects/category/design). Each thumbnail sets its subject in a few words of large type over a full-frame picture, and three lead with a number: 30-Day Transformation, 5 Min Desserts and 10 Easy DIYs. All seven are landscape images close to the 16:9 shape that [YouTube recommends for video thumbnails](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72431). ## What a YouTube thumbnail needs YouTube's own [thumbnail and title tips](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12340300) say viewers usually see a video's thumbnail and title first, and that the two help them decide whether to watch. The same page notes that 90% of the best-performing videos have custom thumbnails. For the design itself, the tips suggest thinking about who the video is for: a thumbnail aimed at casual viewers can lean on actions and emotions most people relate to, such as a shocked face. They also suggest laying branding and descriptive text over the image in a font that is easy to read, and warn that dynamic use of colour and composition can help catch the eye but too much can overwhelm it. If a channel has no written brand rules yet, our guide to [what goes into a brand style guide](https://ndcompany.in/blogs/brand-style-guide) covers colours and fonts. For the file, YouTube's help page on [adding custom thumbnails](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72431) recommends 3840 x 2160 pixels for a video thumbnail, a 16:9 shape, a width of at least 640 pixels and a format such as JPG or PNG. It asks for the image to be as large as possible, and the embedded player uses it as the preview image. A video thumbnail uploaded from a mobile device has to stay under 2 MB, and one uploaded from a computer under 50 MB. Custom thumbnails need a verified account, and YouTube may reject one that breaks its Community Guidelines and add a strike to the account. The same tips suggest judging a thumbnail and title for general audiences by their click-through rate on Home and Suggested in the first 24 hours after publishing. On a computer, YouTube Studio can also [A/B test up to three thumbnails](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16391400) on one video, then show all viewers the version with the most watch time. ## What we did [Graphic Design](https://ndcompany.in/services/graphic-design) ### Thumbnails for seven kinds of video The Bali thumbnail at the top of this page puts a traveller in a straw hat and backpack on the left, looking out over green fields and a beach toward a small rocky island, with the sun low over the sea. Bali 2025 runs across the middle of the frame in white brush lettering, with Travel Guide in plain capitals beneath it, small plane icons in the sky and map pins beside the words. Each title has its own lettering. The fitness title is in heavy white capitals, with Day 1 and Day 30 on red ribbon tags, and the dessert title in rounded yellow and pink letters with a thick white outline. For the makeup tutorial, thin white capitals sit partly over a pink panel, with everyday look in script beneath, and the gaming title is white with pink and blue edges on a tilted black banner. Five of the seven put people or game characters in the frame. The other two show only hands: one reaching for ice cream with a spoon, the other holding a paint roller over a work table. The money saving thumbnail centres on a wide-eyed man holding a piggy bank, and the gaming one adds a cut-out face in a yellow starburst. Both are shocked faces, the example YouTube's tips give of an emotion casual viewers relate to. The colours change too: the fitness frame splits between a red-lit gym and a yellow glow, the money saving one sits on green with glowing line icons, the makeup one stays in soft pinks and whites, and the DIY one runs an orange band across a white sheet of paper. - Travel vlog thumbnail: Bali 2025, Travel Guide - Fitness transformation thumbnail: 30-Day Transformation - Dessert recipe thumbnail: 5 Min Desserts - Gaming highlights thumbnail: Epic Gaming Moments - Makeup tutorial thumbnail: Easy Makeup, everyday look - Personal finance thumbnail: Money Saving Hacks - DIY home improvement thumbnail: 10 Easy DIYs *Fitness transformation: a split frame, red-lit on the Day 1 side and glowing yellow on the Day 30 side, with a lightning bolt between* *Dessert recipes: rounded yellow and pink letters, a cartoon stopwatch under the 5 and a hand reaching in with a spoon* *Gaming highlights: Boom! and Insane! stickers and a shocked face in a yellow starburst around the title* *Makeup tutorial: thin white capitals partly over a pink panel, a line of script and small sparkles in soft pink and white* *Personal finance: glowing line icons, banknotes and stacked coins, a Budget Plan sheet and 2025 in a box* *DIY home improvement: hands with a paint roller, glue guns, brushes and instant-photo prints of rooms and shelves* ## Related reading Guides from our blogs on the same kind of work. Branding Guide ยท 23 Oct 2026 ### [What goes into a brand style guide, and how to use one](https://ndcompany.in/blogs/brand-style-guide) Logo sizes for each platform, colour pairs that pass WCAG, font licences and Indian-script fonts, voice rules, a review checklist and a handover list. Read the guide ## More projects Design Dream Bar, Kolkata ### [Pio Bhai offer creative for Dream Bar](https://ndcompany.in/projects/dream-bar) An offer creative for Dream Bar, a bar and restaurant in Barrackpore, Kolkata, for its Pio Bhai weekend promotion. See the project Design Iron Nerve Fitness ### [Gym promotion creative for Iron Nerve Fitness](https://ndcompany.in/projects/iron-nerve-fitness) A promotion creative for Iron Nerve Fitness, a premium Roman-themed gym. See the project Design ### [Food posts and ad creatives](https://ndcompany.in/projects/food-poster-series) Five food social media posts and ad creatives: a Kolkata brunch, a biryani, a chicken wrap, medu vada and a breakfast promo called Bread and Butter. See the project [See all projects](https://ndcompany.in/projects) ## Want something like this? Tell us about your business in a few lines and we will reply with questions or a quote. We work from Kolkata with clients across India and abroad. 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