August 18, 2025
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New 2025 yearbook themes inspired by you
In the spring, nearly 200 yearbook creators across three focus groups gave their feedback on design trends and current graphic offerings. The findings:
- Backgrounds need to be less graphic and more textured to not compete with the content
- Theme collections felt incomplete
- Elementary yearbook coordinators want a different background for each grade
- Some schools want spreads with up to 60 photos, others want bold showstopper templates to break up content
- Preferred graphic styles include line art, watercolor, and images inspired by nature
Treering’s response: yes
It was a yes of agreement, a yes of exclamatory delight. When evaluating each of the 2025-2026 yearbook themes, the design team went back to your list.
The first six new yearbook themes
Each of the new yearbook themes contains what you need to easily create a beautiful, stylized, photo-centric yearbook: backgrounds, layouts, coordinating graphics, and a style guide. Layouts range from graphic-heavy show-stoppers to photo collages with up to 60 photos. The layouts are designed with a built-in 1/4" margin and a grid system. (This way you won’t have to hit the down arrow 100 times or “eyeball” it.)
Back to School 2
Give your yearbook a sharp take on school spirit with just the right amount of whimsy. The hand-drawn chalk textures blend bright, bold hues with the nostalgic feel of a classic blackboard.
Christian7
Inspired by our third most popular theme, “Tied Together,” Christian7’s continuous line art contains graphics featuring faith-based and academic subjects.
Gallery
This museum-inspired yearbook theme frames every moment as a masterpiece. It turns your year into a curated experience by showcasing every activity as worthy of display.
Greetings
We call the school year a journey, and with this yearbook theme, it truly is. The mid-century charm and travel-themed flair celebrate school life as a collection of picture-perfect stops.
Grow with Me
Designed with K-8 and K-12 schools in mind, “Grow with Me” has double the core graphics to show a progression from kindergarten through the upper grades. It grows from playful to polished with your students: think loose lines and wide rule transitioning to tight, precise graphics and graph paper. Pops of color vary from a waxy crayon to a layered highlighter.
Pixel Perfect
Capture the energy of the school year with Pixel Perfect, a tech-inspired yearbook theme that is stacked with personality. It’s bold, playful, retro, and yet completely on trend.
View a slideshow of the 2025 yearbook themes.
The 100
While you love the theme development and the included graphics, you also asked for more “related” graphics to round out each theme. You wanted to illustrate the happenings on campus further. Again, the design team answered.
Introducing the 100, a curated collection of arts, academics, athletics, and event graphics from the top-searched images, illustrated with each theme’s personality.
Arts and academics: backpack, binder, books (stacked and open), bus, calculator, camera, chalkboard, chemistry flask, clipboards, clock, crayons, diploma, DNA strand, drum set, eraser, film reel, globe, glue stick, graduation cap, guitar, headphones, highlighter, laptop, lightbulb, lunchbox, magnifying glass, medal, microphone, microscope, monitor, music notes, notebook, paint palette, paintbrush, paperclip, pen, pencil, piano keys, red apple, ruler, school building, scissors, sharpener, speech bubble, stapler, test tube, theater masks, trophy, trumpet, and violin.
Athletics: badminton racket, badminton shuttlecock, baseball, baseball bat, baseball glove, basketball, bowling ball, bowling pins, boxing gloves, cheer megaphone, football, golf ball, golf club, hockey puck, hockey stick, ice skates, lacrosse stick, pom-poms, referee shirt, running shoes, sports jersey, soccer ball, softball, swim goggles, tennis ball, volleyball, water bottle, and whistle.
Events: bingo night, Christmas, color run, fall fun fest, father/daughter dance, field trip, graduation, Halloween, mother/son kickball, movie night, patriotic, read-a-thon, Red Ribbon Week, spring dance, spirit week, talent show, Thanksgiving, trunk or treat, Valentines, wax museum, and winter events.
Style guides for every new theme
Perfect for emerging designers who use Treering themes as a launch pad to design their own layouts, these style guides contain
- Coordinating color palettes
- Headline, sub headline, and body copy font recommendations
- Ideas to make the graphics interact with photographs and text
Download the style guides for each theme here.
And if you noticed the bit about “part 1,” we hope you’re excited: there will be four more themes in September.
