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Whether you’re a brand or an individual, as a YouTube creator a big part of your strategy should include supporting your video content with consistent and attractive YouTube branding. For successful YouTubers, a YouTube banner (also known as channel art or a channel header image) is an essential element of your YouTube channel. In this article, we’ll share tips for creating effective YouTube channel art using templates.
Before we get into it, if you’re just starting out with your YouTube channel don’t miss our wrap up of 10 YouTube trends to watch. These tips on video openers, including the best templates to use, are another great resource for polishing your video content ready for launch on your new channel. And to bring it all together, take a look at our complete toolkit for promoting your YouTube Channel.
What Is a YouTube Banner?
A YouTube banner is header art for your YouTube channel and usually includes the channel name and logo, along with social media and website links. Banners give viewers an at-a-glance look at what your channel is about and what they can expect from you and your YouTube video.
YouTube Banner Design Tips
Customizing your banner with fonts, colors, and logos that are consistent across your online presence will help with that all-important brand recognition. Crucially, you should follow these tips to ensure that your YouTube banner displays correctly on all devices.
- Central location
Put information like your channel name, logo, and call to action buttons in the center of your banner so that they are visible to viewers on every device — otherwise they could get cropped out on smaller screens. - Readability
Fonts, graphics, and background images should highlight your text and logo, not overshadow them, so keep it simple. - Size matters
Channel art should be 2560 X 1440 pixels, which will allow your banner to scale correctly across platforms, from large screen TVs to smartphones.
How to Make YouTube Channel Art
Eager to put channel art to work on your own YouTube videos? Here are our top 10 templates to get you started.
10. Youtube Channel Art by micromove
Youtube Channel Art
Clean and professional, this template can be adapted to suit corporate, creative, and everything in between. With organized and structured layers, customizing for your needs is a cinch.
9. Art Deco YouTube Channel Art by SlideFactory
Art Deco Youtube Channel Art
To bring a bit of glitz and glamor to your design, an art deco style is a great option. Especially suited to architecture or fashion content, the colors, fonts and pictures in this template are easily editable to create your unique look.
8. Barber Art YouTube Channel by karkunstudio
Barber Art Youtube Channel
Featuring playful and earthy tones, this template by karkunstudio is ideal for wellness and lifestyle brands. For an eco angle that doesn’t lose any design quality, this is the banner design for you.
7. Gaming – YouTube Channel Art by Gioraphics
Gaming – Youtube Channel Art
Geared towards culinary and travel content, the no-nonsense design style in these templates from Gioraphics is fully editable and adaptable on any device, including mobile, desktop and TV. In striking red, black and white, it’s fierce and perfect for competition-based content.
6. Neon YouTube Channel Art by Sko4
Neon YouTube Channel Art
Bringing the best of ‘80s aesthetic to banner design, these templates from Sko4 come in neon blue, red, green and yellow. To offset a vibrant brand with a design that’s equally dynamic, these are the templates for you.
5. YouTube Channel Art – Minimal by aylinmarie
YouTube Channel Art – Minimal
Strip it back with muted colors and chic, minimalist design. This package includes 10 templates in Illustrator, and is perfect for achieving a cohesive look across your content.
4. LazerGuy – Youtube Channel Art Header by designesto
LazerGuy – Youtube Channel Art Header
With super slick design, this Photoshop template for channel art is modern and high quality. With plenty of pizzazz, the easy to use files are especially suited to social media personalities or gamers.
3. YouTube Channel Cover by mursyiduchy
Youtube Channel Cover Template
To add some design flare to your sports themed YouTube channel, don’t go past this design from mursyiduchy. Three banner templates feature editable shapes and vectors, with well-organized layers, to get your channel into winning form.
2. YouTube Channel Cover Template by invisualstudio
Youtube Channel Cover Template
For banner designs that look super professional, invisualstudio has created a set of templates that work for gaming and technology themes just as well as they work for a cooking channel. Contrasting fonts pack in lots of information, including social links, without looking cluttered.
1. Music Channel | YouTube Cover by Vunira
Music Channel | Youtube Cover
Elegant, modern, and designed with music in mind, these templates by Vunira are suited to both professional and personal channels. With files for Photoshop or Illustrator, promote your love of music with style. Or check out this royalty-free music for YouTube.
For more templates to make your YouTube channel art the best it can be, head over to Envato and start browsing – and opt for a monthly or yearly subscription for unlimited downloads.
Need to brush up your video editing skills? Take a look at our video editing episode of Turbo Tips. And if you’re struggling for inspiration, try a read through our Top 7 Video Trends, or hear straight from the experts in this interview, including how-to tips, with YouTube artist PhaseRunner.
