Cover art in sixty seconds, watermark never
Four typographic styles built on the rules good covers follow — big type, strong contrast, room to breathe. Type your title, pick the palette, export print-grade PNG.
Nothing is uploaded — your audio never leaves your device.
One cover is a tool. A release's whole visual kit is the product.
SongPoster is growing into the release visual machine — covers, posters, post assets, all consistent. The studio side already makes the music's assets: 3 full packs free.
Why typographic covers work — and why most DIY art doesn't
Scroll any streaming service and notice which covers you can actually read at thumbnail size. They're the typographic ones: a title set huge, two or three colors, ruthless economy. The covers that die at 64 pixels are the busy ones — five fonts, a collage, text fighting a photograph for the same square inch. Professional sleeve designers have known this since the vinyl era: one idea per cover, and if the idea is the title, let the title be enormous.
The four styles here are those conventions, encoded. Impact is the festival-poster move — title centered and massive, tracked tight, an accent bar to anchor it. Editorial borrows from magazine mastheads: asymmetric top-left type, a thin rule, a catalog number for texture, all that negative space doing the talking. Minimal is the inset-frame gallery look, small type holding a huge quiet field. Wash runs a two-color gradient diagonal and sets the title against it, bottom-heavy, the club-flyer grammar. Each one auto-fits your title to the canvas so twelve characters and forty both compose correctly, and each exports at 3000×3000 (or 2400×3600 for the print poster) — real render resolution, not an upscaled screenshot.
If you use a background photo, the generator lays a legibility scrim between the image and the type; that's the difference between "text on a photo" and a cover. And the honest limit, stated plainly: this makes strong type-driven art. If your release needs illustration, custom lettering, or a visual identity across ten assets, that's a designer's job — this gets the single out the door looking deliberate.
Frequently asked questions
How do I make cover art without a designer?
Steal what designers know: one big typographic idea beats five small ones. Pick a style here, type the title and artist, and adjust the two colors until it feels like the song. The styles are built on real cover conventions — centered impact type, editorial top-left, minimal grid, gradient wash.
Is it really free with no watermark?
Yes. The canvas renders in your browser and exports clean 3000×3000 PNG — store-ready resolution, nothing stamped on it, no signup wall before the download.
Can I use my own image as the background?
Yes — drop a photo and the type composes over it with a legibility scrim. Keep faces clear of the title zone; the preview shows exactly what exports.
What resolution do stores need?
3000×3000 is the safe deliverable everywhere (minimums are lower but shrinking a big export always beats stretching a small one). Exports here are exactly that.