Who makes this, and why you are not being asked to pay

How this started

In the summer of 2024 a friend asked one of us to make her a brat cover for a playlist. Then another friend asked. By the fourth request it was faster to build a page than to keep opening a design app, so that is what happened.

The first version was bad. It used a font that was close to Arial but not Arial, and the blur was applied in a way that clipped the edges of the letters. The covers it made were almost right, which reads worse than obviously wrong. We rebuilt it twice more before the output stopped bothering us.

What we learned in the process is written down in the guides, mostly so that nobody else has to repeat it.

What happens to what you type

Nothing. There is no server involved in making your cover. Your browser draws it on a canvas element using fonts your device already has, and the file is created in your own memory before being handed to your downloads folder.

You can verify this without taking our word for it. Load the page, turn off your wifi or mobile data, and keep making covers. It works, because there is nothing to send.

We do count page views with Google Analytics, because otherwise we have no idea which tools are worth the maintenance. That is the only measurement here: no advertising cookies, no remarketing, no email list, and nothing that follows you to another site. You can turn it off from the banner, and in Europe it stays off until you say otherwise. The privacy policy and the cookie policy spell out exactly what is collected.

Why it is free, and what would change that

A static site that does its work in the browser costs the price of a domain name and nothing else. There is no per-user cost, so there is no reason to charge per user.

If that changes, the tool stays free and we will say so on this page rather than quietly adding a watermark or an export limit. Tools that get worse after you come to rely on them are the reason people distrust free software, and we would rather not add to that.

What we are not

Brat Generator is an independent fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Charli XCX, Atlantic Records, or Special Offer Inc.

We did not design the album cover. Brat Generator is a drawing tool that happens to be good at one particular look. If you are here for official merchandise or music, you want the artist's own channels, not us. The copyright and trademark notice spells out what that means for anything you make here.

Talking to us

[email protected] reaches a person, not a ticketing system. We read everything, and bug reports get answered first.

If something renders wrong, telling us your phone model and browser saves a round trip. Most of what we have fixed since launch came from someone taking two minutes to describe what they were seeing. The help page covers the problems we already know about, and the feedback page is where longer thoughts go.