Free YouTube Banner Design Templates

February 15, 2025

Using YouTube banner templates allows you to quickly create a YouTube banner, saving you time and enabling those who are not proficient in graphic design to create beautiful YouTube banners.

This article will introduce the different types of YouTube banner templates provided by OG BEAR and the types of channels they are best suited for. The templates offered by OG BEAR follow the best practices for YouTube banners.

Minimalist Style Templates

  • Features: Fresh color schemes (such as white, gray, light blue, and other fresh colors) with minimal design, emphasizing the channel name and slogan.
  • Suitable for Channels: Technology, design, photography, lifestyle, personal brands, technical channels.
  • Advantages: Timeless and classic, easy to read, highlights your channel name and logo.

OG Bear offers the following YouTube banner templates:

Minimalist YouTube Banner template

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Minimalist YouTube Banner template

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Minimalist image YouTube Banner template

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Technology YouTube Banner template

Vibrant Color Templates

  • Features: Use of bright colors, vibrant gradient backgrounds (such as orange to pink, purple to blue), bold fonts, and eye-catching patterns to create a lively and visually impactful effect.
  • Suitable for Channels: Gaming, music, entertainment, comedy, children's content, lifestyle, etc.
  • Advantages: High eye-catching appeal, quickly attracts viewers' attention, suitable for channels targeting younger audiences.

OG Bear offers the following YouTube banner templates:

Red and Yellow

Fashion YouTube Banner template

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Green Blue YouTube Banner template

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Color Gradient

Color Gradient YouTube Banner template

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Color Gradient YouTube Banner template

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Photo-Based Templates

  • Features: Uses high-quality images as backgrounds, which can include landscapes, products, people, etc., paired with simple text and logos.
  • Suitable for Channels: Travel, food, fashion, beauty, vlogs, lifestyle, fitness channels, etc.
  • Advantages: Strong visual impact, can directly showcase channel content, leaves a lasting impression on viewers.
  • Disadvantages: Requires high-quality image/video materials, text and logo design need to harmonize with the background.

OG Bear offers the following YouTube banner templates:

Nature Background YouTube Banner template

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Nature Background YouTube Banner template

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Minimalist image YouTube Banner template

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Nature & Landscape Templates

Features:

  • Backgrounds include natural landscapes, cityscapes, or abstract art
  • Emphasizes a fresh and open feeling

Suitable for Channels: Suitable for travel, photography, outdoor channels

OG Bear offers the following templates:

Top and Bottom Text

Nature Background YouTube Banner template

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Left and Right Text

Nature Background YouTube Banner template

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Additional:

If you can't find a template you like in OG Bear or need more complex templates, consider the following suggestions:

  • Use Other Online Design Tools: Platforms like Canva, Adobe Spark offer a large number of free YouTube banner templates, making it easy even without design experience.
  • Reference Other Channels: Browse channels similar to your content to see how they design their banners and get inspiration.
  • Continuous Testing and Optimization: Don't be afraid to try different designs and continuously optimize your banners based on audience feedback.