brat font generator

It is the same generator as the rest of the site, opened on the part people ask about most: the typeface. You type, and it sets your words in an Arial-metric face, squishes them to about 69% of their natural width, blurs them slightly, and centres them on a flat colour. Thirteen font styles sit in the dropdown, and the export is a full-resolution image rather than a font file, because the look is a transformation rather than a typeface you can install.

Plain Arial, horizontally squished to about 69% of its natural width, then softened with a slight gaussian blur. There is no special typeface and no custom lettering. The squish plus the blur is the entire trick.

Because squished Arial and Arial Narrow look alike at a glance. Arial Narrow is a separately drawn condensed font, though, and its proportions do not match the cover. Scaling regular Arial sideways thins the vertical strokes while the horizontals keep their weight, a small distortion a true condensed cut never has. That distortion is part of why the original looks slightly off, in a good way.

There is nothing to download, because it is regular Arial with a transform applied on top. Arial already ships with Windows and Apple systems, and Arimo, its open-license twin, is freely available if you want a file. The part you actually need, the 69% squish and the blur, is what this generator applies for you.

Arimo is an open-license font that is metrically identical to Arial: every letter takes up exactly the same space. We self-host it so your image is drawn from the same font file on every device, including Android phones, which do not include Arial. Same input, same output, no substitutions.

Set your text in regular Arial, lowercase, then scale the text layer horizontally to about 69%. Add a gaussian blur of roughly 0.4% of your canvas edge, which is about 8 pixels on a 2048 pixel square. Center it and you are most of the way there. Or type it here and skip the math.

No. The original uses Arial's default spacing, and so does this generator. The gaps between letters compress along with the letters when the word is squished, which is all the tightening the look needs.

Yes, there are thirteen. Original is the accurate one and stays the default, and the rest cover the classics people look for: Arial Narrow, Arial Black, Impact, Helvetica, Verdana, Times New Roman, Georgia, Courier, Comic Sans, plus condensed caps, rounded, and marker styles. Each ships as a self-hosted open-license face rather than a system font call, and each carries its own squish ratio instead of a blanket 69%.