YouTube banners that make your channel look pro.
Describe your channel and Snappa generates banner art that fits every screen, TV to phone.
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- No design skills needed
55,000+ customers served
30,000,000+ graphics made
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How it works
From channel idea to banner in three steps
Describe it
Type what your channel is about and the vibe you want. The preset sets 2560 x 1440 and keeps your name inside the safe area.
Snappa generates it
Finished channel art with your name and tagline centered in the crop-proof zone.
Refine it your way
Type what to change, or brush a spot that’s hard to describe. New scene, new palette, new tagline.
Prompt
Banner for a woodworking channel called Sawdust Sundays, warm workshop, pegboard tools, tagline New builds every Sunday.
Built to spec
One upload, every screen.
A YouTube banner is one 2560 x 1440 image cropped three different ways: TV shows all of it, desktop shows a strip, phones show a sliver. Snappa keeps your name and tagline inside the 1546 x 423 safe area, so nothing you care about ever gets cut.
- Exact spec. 2560 x 1440, ready to upload.
- Safe-area centered. Name and tagline survive every crop.
- Sharp on TV. The living room gets the full image.
Byte Basics · banner + thumbnails
Banner and thumbnails, one visual system.
Brand matching
A channel that matches its thumbnails.
Subscribers recognize a look before they read a name. Use the same reference images as your thumbnails and the banner comes out in the same visual system. One channel, one look, from the header down.
Readable type
Say when you upload.
A schedule on your banner gives visitors a reason to subscribe. Snappa renders your channel name and tagline as clean text that’s readable on a phone and sharp on a TV.
A schedule on the banner turns visitors into subscribers.
Same channel, four looks. Each refresh is one prompt.
Refresh
Rebrand in an evening, not a month.
Season launches, subscriber milestones, a new direction. The old way was a commission and a week of revisions per change. Now a refresh is one prompt, and trying a bolder idea is just one more prompt.
Made with Snappa
One prompt each
“My channel finally looks like a channel, not a hobby. Banner, thumbnails, and end screen all match.”
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“I rebranded for the new season in one evening. The old way was a week of commission revisions.”
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The craft
What makes channel art work
Live inside 1546 x 423
Everything outside the center strip is decoration on most screens. Put nothing there you need.
Design the full frame anyway
On televisions the whole 2560 x 1440 shows. Let the edges breathe instead of repeating.
State your upload day
A banner that says new videos every Friday gives visitors a reason to subscribe today.
Frequently Asked Questions
What size is YouTube channel art?
Why does my banner look cropped on some devices?
Can my banner match my thumbnails?
How is Snappa different from AI image generators like Midjourney?
Is Snappa free?
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