Check your thumbnail in a realistic home feed, search results, sidebar and mobile layout, in light and dark mode, with your title and timestamp. Then shrink it to sidebar size and see if it still reads.
18:42
We Spent 24 Hours in the Biggest Mall
CORE
2.1M views · 3 days ago
14:28YoursWe Played Every Sport on a Golf Course
Your channel
Preview · not uploaded
21:07
Speed vs Celine
IShowSpeed
8.4M views · 1 week ago
16:551 Star vs 5 Star Restaurant
CORE
1.3M views · 2 weeks ago
24:10
Blind Dating
Rasmus Søndergaard
640K views · 5 days ago
9:31
Elgiganten Ep. 2
Elgiganten
210K views · 1 month ago
Feed mockup. View counts and dates are placeholders.
Any generated or edited thumbnail.
Home, search, sidebar or mobile, in light or dark.
If it reads at ~160px, it reads everywhere.
Home grid, search, sidebar and mobile.
Thumbnails behave differently on white.
See the whole package, not just the image.
The ~160px view separates good from great.
Nobody judges a thumbnail at full size on a 27-inch screen. Viewers see it at 300 pixels between other videos, so that's where we check it.
Design studio · Made by designers, for designersNo. It's a faithful local mockup, so nothing is uploaded or shared.
Yes. The title, channel name and duration are all editable.
Home grid, search results, sidebar and mobile, plus a small ~160px view.
