Twitch Panel Image Builder｜Matching 320×160 Channel Panels in One Pass
Build a set of Twitch channel panels with a shared look — title, single-line subtitle, one of five icons, an accent strip, and two colors. The output is a 320×160 PNG, the standard Twitch channel panel size. Good for laying out Socials, Schedule, Donate, and Rules panels so they read as one design instead of five mismatched stickers.
💡 About this tool
Twitch channel panels sit below your stream preview and act as the "navigation" of your profile. Viewers scan them quickly to find your socials, donation link, schedule, or rules — and when each panel uses a different font, padding, and tint, the whole channel page starts to feel like a thrift-store wall instead of a brand.
This builder strips the design problem down to five inputs: a title (auto-uppercased, max 20 chars), a subtitle line (max 40 chars), an icon choice (None, Play, Heart, Link, Dot), a strip position (None, Left, Top), and two colors. Title type auto-fits to the panel width, so long words don't blow out the layout. Lock the two colors and the strip, then swap just the title and icon to crank out four or five panels that visibly belong to the same channel.
It's a 30-second tool — open it, ship one panel, close the tab. No accounts, no template gallery to scroll through.
🧐 Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What size does it export? A. 320×160 PNG. Twitch panels are displayed at a fixed 320px width, so exporting at that exact width avoids any browser-side resampling. The 2:1 ratio (320×160) is the most common panel shape and matches what most channel pages use.
Q. Can I export taller panels (e.g., 320×300 or 320×600)? A. Not in this tool. Twitch accepts panel heights from 60 to 600 px, but this builder is fixed at 160 px because the layout — title row plus optional subtitle plus icon — is tuned for that aspect ratio. For tall portrait panels with paragraph copy, you'll want a different tool.
Q. Will my file pass Twitch's upload limit? A. Yes. Twitch caps panel images at 1 MB. The PNGs this builder produces are typically a few dozen KB because the artwork is flat colors and short text, so you're well under the cap.
Q. The title is getting cut off — what's the limit? A. 20 characters in the input, and the font auto-shrinks down to fit the panel width if you use the full 20. Short labels like "SOCIAL" or "RULES" render large; longer phrases like "STREAM SCHEDULE" render smaller. If you need more text, push the overflow into the subtitle line (40 chars).
Q. Why are titles always uppercase? A. Titles are rendered in uppercase to keep the panel set visually consistent regardless of how you type them. Type "Schedule" or "schedule" and it appears as "SCHEDULE" on the panel.
Q. How do I keep all my panels matching? A. Pick your background and accent colors once, leave the strip position alone, and only change the title text + icon between exports. The color pickers retain their values until you close the tab, so a four-panel run takes about two minutes.
📚 Where panel design and panel order meet
Designing matching panels is half the battle — the other half is the order they appear on your channel page. Viewers scan top-to-bottom, so the first one or two panels carry most of the click weight. A common layout puts About at the top, followed by Schedule, then Donate / Tip, then Socials, with Rules near the bottom.
The reason this order shows up so often: the upper panels are the ones a brand-new viewer sees in their first scroll, so anything you want them to do (follow you elsewhere, support the stream, know when you're live) lives there. Rules and policy panels go lower because they're a reference, not a call to action — people scroll back for them rather than reading on first arrival.
A practical takeaway: design the four to five panels you actually want first (Socials, Schedule, Donate, Rules), and only then think about whether a sixth or seventh panel earns its slot. An overstuffed panel column makes the high-value links harder to find, which defeats the point of having a tidy design in the first place.