Album Cover Guide

How to Make a Brat Album Cover: Free 4-Step Guide

Make a Brat-style album cover in four steps with real screenshots: title, background colour, font and blur, then a 3000 × 3000 download.

The Short Answer

To make a Brat album cover, open the Brat Album Cover Generator, type a short title, keep the lime-green background, add a little blur, and download. The tool exports a 3000 × 3000 square, it is free, and it needs no account.

This is the cover made while writing this guide, with the exact settings listed underneath, so you can recreate it and then change it to your own.

Finished Brat-style album cover: lime green square with the blurred lowercase title sunday reset and the artist name mika below
Settings used: Cover title “sunday reset”, Artist / subtitle “mika”, Background #8ACE00, Text colour #101010, Font Arial Narrow, Alignment Center, Text size 120px, Blur 2.0px, Line height 0.96, exported as PNG at 3000 × 3000.

Open the Cover Tool

The album cover maker is built into this page, so you can follow each step without switching tabs. Everything renders in your browser, and an optional background photo stays on your device.

Album Cover Studio
Build square cover art with a title, optional artist line, colour, blur, and high-resolution export.
Album export: 3000 × 3000 px square
Live preview3000 × 3000

How to Make a Brat Album Cover in 4 Steps

1. Type the Cover title and Artist / subtitle

Enter your title in Cover title and a name in Artist / subtitle. The title is drawn in lowercase automatically, which is part of the Brat look, so you do not need to retype it. One to three words read best. For a longer title, press Enter to split it over two or three lines.

Cover title field containing sunday reset and Artist / subtitle field containing mika
Step 1: the two text fields. The artist line is drawn smaller near the bottom of the cover.

2. Choose the Background and Text colour

Background starts on #8ACE00, the lime green most people know from the album, with dark text (#101010). Tap a swatch for pink, white, black, purple, blue or orange, or type any hex value. Keep strong contrast: dark text on light colours, light text on black.

Background set to #8ACE00 and Text colour set to #101010 with seven colour swatches below
Step 2: Background, Text colour and the preset swatches.

3. Set the Font, Text size and Blur

Leave Font on Arial Narrow for the condensed look and Alignment on Center. Raise Text size until the title fills most of the width (120px here). Then add Blur slowly: 1.5–2.5px softens the edges without hurting readability. Line height only matters when the title has more than one line.

Font set to Arial Narrow, Alignment Center, Text size 120px, Blur 2.0px and Line height 0.96
Step 3: the settings that create the Brat feel. Blur has the biggest effect on readability.

4. Pick a format and Download

Choose PNG, JPG or WebP from the format menu next to Download, then press it. Every format saves a 3000 × 3000 pixel square. PNG keeps the sharpest edges; choose JPG if an upload page rejects your file. Copy Image and Reset sit beside it.

Export row with the PNG format menu, Download, Copy Image and Reset buttons
Step 4: the export row under the preview.

Want a photo behind the title? Use Background image (optional) before step 4. It accepts PNG, JPG or WebP and the file is not uploaded anywhere.

Two Common Mistakes

Too much blur

The Blur slider goes up to 8px. At that level the title turns into a smudge, especially when the cover is shown as a small thumbnail in a music app. Below, the same cover at 8px (left) and 2px (right).

The same sunday reset cover with Blur at 8px, unreadable, next to Blur at 2px, readable
Fix: keep Blur between about 1.5 and 2.5px, then check the cover at a small size.

A long title on one line

The tool shrinks the title until it fits the width, so a long sentence on one line ends up tiny. Press Enter in Cover title to break it into short lines; the text gets much bigger.

A long title squeezed onto one small line next to the same words split over three large lines
Fix: “everything i / never got / to say” on three lines (right) instead of one long line (left).

Brat Green and the Font

The cover tool’s default green is #8ACE00. It is a widely used digital approximation of the album colour, not an official specification, and screens show it slightly differently.

DetailValue in this tool
Hex#8ACE00
RGB138, 206, 0
Default text colour#101010
Default fontArial Narrow

The exact typeface on the original cover has not been officially published. Arial Narrow is a close, practical match, and most of the look comes from lowercase text, tight sizing and light blur. The Brat Font Generator covers the font in more depth, and Brat Styles lists other colour combinations.

Using Your Cover

A 3000 × 3000 square works as a master file for playlist and album artwork. Each music service and distributor sets its own upload rules, so check the service you use; if a file is too large, export JPG instead of PNG.

For an Instagram Story, TikTok or another vertical post, don’t stretch the square. Rebuild the design at the right shape in the Brat Image Generator, which has portrait, Story and wide canvas sizes. The canvas size guide explains which shape to choose.

General editors such as Canva or Photoshop can recreate this look, but you set the font, size and blur yourself. This tool starts with those controls already in place. If a download does not start, see the troubleshooting guide.

Ready to create?

Create Your Brat Album Cover

Open the cover maker for a square Brat-style cover with title, artist line, colours and blur, exported at 3000 × 3000.

Open Brat Album Cover Generator