Using Broadside in lyrik.fm

Pick Broadside on the Style step: every line of your song is screen-printed as a gig poster, with the lyric filling the frame edge to edge.

What it looks like

• Spot inks pulled onto poster stock. Rows of heavy capitals are fitted edge to edge, like wood type.
• A flat 3D offset in a second ink, and dry-brush bands across the poster.
• Your cover, printed in. It appears as a high-contrast print or halftone, a side panel or a film strip.
• Words cut in as you sing them.
• Choruses swap to dark and bold-colour grounds, and repeated chorus lines turn into wallpaper behind the poster.
• A brushed strike-through on the first 'no' or 'never' of a section.

Best for

• Rock, indie, punk, pop, conscious rap and afro-fusion anthems.
• Mid to high energy, roughly 80 to 185 BPM.
• Big, repeated choruses and drops.
• Any cover. Colourful covers give it the richest inks.

How to make it

1. On the Style step ('Pick a style.'), find Broadside. On a phone, tap the Style tab first.
2. Tap or click the card to see your clip (your first chorus, to start with) as posters.
3. Choose a Font, a colour under Colour · from your cover, and a Lyric size.
4. Open More ways to tweak it (the More tab on a phone) for the paper, Print, 3D depth and Energy.
5. Press Shuffle for new inks and posters. Undo goes back.
6. Check both shapes, then press Download · from £4.99$5.99€5.99CA$8.99A$8.99.

Available controls

Control	Choices
Font	Bold sans, Gothic, Condensed, Slab
Colour	Our pick, Dark, Two-ink, Bold colour, Pop, Carnaval, Riso, Neon, Your colour
Lyric size	Small, Medium, Large, Huge
Background	Poster stock, Crumpled, Card, Canvas, Flat ink
Print	Our pick, Your cover, Lyrics only
3D depth	On, Off
Energy	Calm, Normal, Hype
Ad-libs	Show, Hide

Font availability depends on your lyrics. Colour choices can depend on the cover, and the Ad-libs row needs marked ad-libs.

Broadside sets every word in capitals, like a screen-printed poster, and lays out each poster for its words. The panel says 'Broadside chooses the capitals and where the lyrics sit for you.'

Tips for great results

• Write out your choruses. Repeated chorus lines become the wallpaper, so a song with its repeats written out looks fullest. See How do I mark choruses, verses and repeats?
• Try Huge for a hook-heavy song. A few words a poster makes every hook land.
• Turn 3D depth off for a flatter, cleaner print.
• Try Carnaval or Riso if your cover's own colours are quiet.

16:9 and 9:16

• 16:9 fits each line across the poster, often with your cover as a side panel or film strip.
• 9:16 splits long words over two rows and tilts the posters less. Once the hero word is sung, it often echoes huge in a softer ink at the top or bottom. The film strip sits above the lyrics, and the lyrics stay in the area TikTok, Reels and Shorts leave clear.

Languages

• Broadside is the one style that can borrow letters word by word. If only a few words in your song (up to about 1 in 20) need letters the font lacks, just those words use a matching font.
• If more words need it, the whole song moves to a matching font that has the hooked Hausa letters and other marks.
• With a mouse, a chip's tip may say, for example, 'Gothic: a few words are set in a matching fallback face'.

Good to know

• Colour, size, ad-libs and energy carry across if you switch style. Broadside remembers its own font, paper, Print and 3D depth.
• Shuffle gives every style a new take, not just Broadside.
• Previewing is free. Your first eligible clip is free too; other downloads use credits.

If something goes wrong

• A font chip is greyed out. Tap it to see the letters it lacks, then pick another.
• Your cover gets in the way. Set Print to Lyrics only.

Hidden extras

• Tap a chosen colour chip again (not Our pick or a ready-made set) to swap the inks round. Two-ink steps through other ink pairs from your cover too.
• On a computer, press S for new posters and F to switch shape.