Ship It Sundays Coding Tutorial Thumbnails
A set of three 1280x720 YouTube thumbnails on warm off-white with a big two-line Host Grotesk result hook (40x faster, 9s to 3ms, Less RAM) underlined by a hand-drawn brush stroke, a dark editor window card on the right holding three lines of real Martian Mono code as a diff with the slow line tinted red and the fast line tinted in the accent, a blinking-style block cursor, and a locked Sunday episode chip top left. Clean, credible and developer-friendly, each episode swaps the language, code, hook and accent (mint green, amber, cobalt blue).
What's inside
- Pages: 3 pages
- Size: YouTube thumbnail, 1280 × 720 px
- Full resolution export: 1280 × 720 px
- Fonts: Martian Mono and Host Grotesk
- Layers: 36 text layers and 48 shapes
- Effects: drop shadow
Colour palette
- #f2efe8
- #22c36f
- #121318
- #3b3f4a
- #c9c7c1
- #ff9f1c
Good for
- coding tutorial YouTube thumbnails
- developer blog post headers
- performance tip social posts
- engineering newsletter covers
- tech talk or conference slide covers
- SaaS changelog announcements
- programming course lesson covers
How to make it yours
- Start with the largest text, the "Headline" layer set in Host Grotesk, and swap in your own words.
- Then rewrite "Topic" (Host Grotesk) and "Episode number" (Host Grotesk) with your details.
- There are no photos to replace, the design is built from type and shapes.
- Change the background from #f2efe8 to your own colour, then recolour the accents in #22c36f and #121318.
- Keep the 3 pages you need, duplicate the ones you want more of and delete the rest.
- Export a PNG to post, or a PDF if you need one.
About thumbnail templates
Bold 16:9 thumbnails for videos and podcasts, made to win the click in a crowded feed.
Tags
coding, developer, programming, code editor, before and after, tech, minimal, series, youtube thumbnail
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