Valuable Tips and Inspiration for Designing a YouTube banner

These valuable tips might be helpful for you, for designing a great YouTube banner. → Watch Video Tutorial.

• Though it is common practice, but it is not necessary to mention the channel name at the center zone because that is already mentioned everywhere - for example, popular YouTube channels including Made by Google, and Microsoft Teams do not mention channel name on the banner image. Rather, you should try to keep the most important elements on the safe area for mobile because it will show on all screens, thus visible to the maximum number of channel visitors.

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• For example, you can display some enticing discounts offer, services, or products on the central mobile safe zone. On the YouTube banner, you can also mention some announcement as did by Google Nest channel. On YouTube banner, you can also remind visitors to subscribe your channel, as did by Microsoft Azure on its YT channel.

• Use a high resolution image for YouTube banner - for example 2560 x 1440 pixel mage.

• There should be ample contrast in colors of various elements to increase the visibility of the primary message in your banner image.

• Avoid placing an element on the border between safe areas of mobile and desktop because it will look bad when cropped out for a mobile display.

• It is better idea to use a separate background element for mobile and desktop. For inspiration, look our YT banner designs shown in this video. If you use a single background element, it will crop out on mobile screen screen and might look bad.

• Avoid clutter in design. In other words, keep enough space empty on the banner image so that the main elements stand out.

• Use some bold font which is easily readable. Avoid using fancy and hand-written fonts on YouTube banner.

I hope you like the core ideas for designing a YouTube banner.

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