Inside Merch & Promo → Flyers & Playbills, the Flyer Generator builds promotional graphics from 12 classic templates and 23 genre styles: posters and handbills to print, club-night and festival lineups, album release announcements, social-media graphics (Digital Promo) in seven sizes, name banners for Bandcamp and YouTube, and a blank canvas — all customizable with your text and artwork. The genre styles (Country, Rock, Folk, Hip Hop, Pop, EDM / DJ, Solo Acoustic, Jazz) look printed or hand-made, with built-in fonts, paper and ink textures and photo effects, and every one works with no photo at all.
Workflow
Pick a template
The chips at the top filter the list: All, one genre (Country, Rock, Folk, Hip Hop, Pop, EDM / DJ, Solo Acoustic, Jazz) or Classic. Under "Genre styles: more character" each genre has its own row of styles (see the list below); "Preview with" shows the cards with the sample words or with your own. Under "Classic: simple & clean" are Full Bleed Poster, Club Night Split, Acoustic Portrait, Festival Lineup, Album Release, Hero Image Poster, Punk Typography, Diagonal Split, Instagram Post, Instagram Story, Social Banner, or Blank Canvas — or bring in your own finished flyer (PNG, JPG or WebP) with Choose file, From Media Hub or Take photo on the Upload Your Own tile.
Pick a size
A genre style comes in every size: Poster (11×17 in), Handbill (8.5×11 in), Square 1:1 (Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky and X posts), Portrait 4:5 (Instagram and Facebook feed), Vertical 9:16 (Instagram Stories & Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Facebook Stories — the words stay out of the top and bottom bars and away from the buttons on the right), Wide 16:9, YouTube thumbnail (1280×720), Facebook event cover (1920×1005) and X & Bluesky header (1500×500). Instagram Post, Instagram Story and Social Banner come in the seven social sizes. Both also make the two name banners (below). The classic gig posters are one size, 12×18 in. Switching size keeps everything you typed.
Fill in your details
Type the artist, event title, date, time, venue, address, tickets, tagline and description (the genre styles add "Presented by" and "Support acts / lineup", one act per line, with an optional set time after a | ). Fields a style doesn't use are dimmed with "Not shown in this style". Add your artwork or a photo (Choose file, From Media Hub, or Take photo with any Mac camera, including an iPhone); in the genre styles you can also add a band logo (a PNG or WebP with a see-through background works best) and tick "Use logo instead of name". The live preview shows exactly what will be exported and updates as you type. Your text and picture stay when you switch templates, styles or Merch & Promo tabs; Reset asks before it clears anything.
Make it yours
A genre style opens with its Look card: Palette (each swatch shows its paper, ink and accent; Custom sets your own Background, Text, Accent and Accent 2), Headline font and Details font (each font in the list is shown in its own style, the style's own picks first), Headline size S / M / L, Case (Style default or As typed), Texture (Off / Light / Heavy), up to three effects of the style's own, and Overlay strength on photo styles. The Picture card sets the photo treatment (duotone, one ink, halftone dots and more), the focus point and the zoom. "Reset look" puts the style's own colours, fonts and effects back and keeps your words. The classic templates' Look card sets the accent color and the headline font (the font of your artist / band name): a wide font is made smaller so the whole name fits, and handwritten fonts keep your name as you typed it. Your PNG and PDF use exactly the fonts you see.
Tickets QR code
Paste a ticket link that starts with https:// and tick "Add QR code for tickets": the genre styles print a scannable QR code for it. It is on by default for Poster and Handbill and off for the social sizes, where people can tap a link instead. Scan it with your phone before you print.
Export
"Export PNG" (Standard for social, Print quality ≈300 DPI for posters: 3× the size, about 295 DPI on an 11×17 in poster and 270 DPI on a 12×18 in one; a Print quality file says 300 PPI, so print shops don't read it as 72) or "Export PDF" (one page at the exact size of your design). The file name has your artist name, the style and the size.
Order prints
The links under "Order Prints" open printing services (Printful, Canva Print, GotPrint…) in your browser for physical flyers and posters. They're separate companies, not part of MusicLaunch: check their prices and terms before you order.
The genre styles
- Country: Woodtype Show Card, Honky-Tonk Dancehall, Arched Marquee
- Rock: Screenprint Stack, Photocopy Paste-up, Blackout Bill
- Folk: Broadside, Linocut Block
- Hip Hop: Jam Flyer, Mixtape Cover, Editorial Bold
- Pop: Gradient Glow, Sticker Collage, Big Type Minimal
- EDM / DJ: Rave Grid, Neon Sign, Chrome Future
- Solo Acoustic: Journal Page, Listening Room, Chalkboard Café
- Jazz: Modernist Record, Deco Club, Supper Club Card
Name banners: Bandcamp header and YouTube channel banner
Under "Name banners" in the Size box, every genre style and the three Digital Promo templates also make a banner with your name on it instead of a show: the artist / band name (or your band logo, in the genre styles), the tagline (a short line such as your city or your sound) and your picture; the show details are left off. Bandcamp header: 975 × 180 px, a PNG to upload as the custom header when you design your Bandcamp page. YouTube channel banner: 2560 × 1440 px, saved as a JPG so it stays under YouTube's 6 MB limit. TVs show the whole banner, computers a strip across the middle and phones only the centre, so the words stay inside the centre box; the preview draws that box (dashed) and shades what only TVs show. The guide is never in your file. Both export at exactly the size the site asks for, so there is no Print quality choice.
