YouTube Thumbnail Maker

YouTube Thumbnail Maker — Command-Line Design Tool

Scroll-stopping 1280x720 YouTube thumbnails without Photoshop, Canva, or a design bone in your body. Type your title, pick a background, and get a finished thumbnail with bold outlined text, an accent bar, and a subtitle pill — the exact style that gets clicked.

What's inside:

• thumbnail-maker.py — the tool: gradients, solid colors, or your own photo as background (photos are auto-darkened so t

AI disclosure: This project includes AI-generated graphics, as declared in the AI generation disclosure section above.ext pops)

• Automatic title wrapping and font shrinking — long titles always fit the safe zone

• Accent color control for the top bar and subtitle pill

• Real YouTube size (1280x720 PNG) every time

• README.md — plain-English setup and every option explained with examples

Requirements: Python 3.8+ and the free Pillow library (one pip install command in the README). Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. No accounts, no uploads, no subscriptions.