Brat Birthday Invitation: Sizes, Ideas & Free Generator

How to make a brat birthday invitation for texting, Instagram, or a printed card, with ready-to-use wording and the right size for each.

Brat Birthday Invitation: Digital vs. Printed

Most brat birthday invitations get sent, not mailed – a photo dropped into a group chat, an Instagram Story, or a DM. That changes what “the right size” means compared to a poster or an album cover: instead of optimizing for a wall, you’re optimizing for a phone screen shared between different apps that each handle image previews a little differently.

A smaller number of people still want an actual printed card, either mailed or handed out – that’s a much smaller physical size than a poster, so it can use full 300 DPI print quality without running anywhere near this tool’s size limits. The sections below cover both routes.

Fitting the Party Details in One Text Block

The brat generator‘s text field holds up to 120 characters and applies one font size to everything you type – there’s no separate “headline” size and “details” size the way a printed invitation template usually has. Line breaks are preserved, so you can stack several short lines, but all of them render at the same size and weight.

A useful birthday invitation normally covers a handful of specific details: the celebrant’s name, the date, the start time, the venue or a short location, an RSVP contact or deadline, and – if it applies – a dress code or party theme. That’s more than most people can fit comfortably at 120 characters once every line is spelled out in full, so it helps to know what to trim and where to put the rest.

The practical fix is to split the information rather than force all of it into the graphic. Keep the essentials – name, date, time, and a short venue name – on the graphic itself, and put anything that needs more room, like a full street address, driving directions, or detailed RSVP instructions, into the WhatsApp message, DM, or caption you send along with the image. That keeps the graphic legible and still gets every detail to your guests.

This also happens to match the brat aesthetic itself, which was never about a polished invitation hierarchy in the first place – flat, blunt, and a little thrown-together is the actual look, not a limitation to work around.

Brat Birthday Invitation Wording Ideas

Five short, ready-to-adapt examples for the generator’s single text block, each within the 120-character limit. Replace the example name, date, venue, and phone number with your own details before sending – none of the contact information below is real. For the dress-code example, the exact brat green hex code and a few colors that pair well with it are worth checking if you want guests to actually match the theme rather than guess at the shade.

jordan turns 27
sat sept 12 - 7pm
the rooftop bar
rsvp by sept 5

drinks + chaos
casey's 30th
sat sept 12 - 9pm
loft on 5th
rsvp: 555-0148

riley's brat bday bash
sun sept 13 - 2pm
maple park pavilion
parents welcome

you're invited
sam turns 21
fri sept 18 - 8pm
details in chat

wear green or don't come
morgan's brat bday
sat sept 12 - 8pm
rsvp: 555-0148

The Right Size for Digital Invitations

1080×1080 is a practical all-purpose option, not a mandatory WhatsApp requirement – it previews reasonably across most messaging apps without an awkward crop. A tall, Story-shaped image may appear cropped or reduced in a chat preview outside Instagram, though recipients can usually still open the full image at its original aspect ratio; a square design just gives a more consistent preview across different apps without relying on that extra tap.

The Right Size for a Printed Invitation

A printed invitation is held in the hand and read up close, the same as a photo – so unlike a brat poster, it should stay at full 300 DPI rather than dropping to a lower DPI for scale. At invitation size, that’s still a small pixel count, well under this tool’s 6000px custom size cap:

These are final, trimmed dimensions – the size of the card after cutting, not necessarily the size to export if your print shop requires bleed. Bleed is extra image area added past the trim line so tiny alignment shifts during cutting don’t leave a white edge; requirements vary by printer, so confirm with your specific print shop before exporting. As one example, a 5x7in card with a common 0.125-inch bleed on every edge becomes a 5.25 x 7.25in canvas, or 1575 x 2175px at 300 DPI. Whatever bleed size you use, keep your name, date, and other essential text at least 0.25 inch inside the final trim edge so nothing important gets cut off – and if your print shop offers a downloadable template, use it instead of estimating bleed yourself, since exact requirements differ between printers.

Enter your final canvas dimensions using “Custom size…” in the export menu, since none of the built-in social presets match a standard card size.

Square design, print card, different shape: a square 1080×1080 digital design and a 5x7in printed card use different aspect ratios – a square doesn’t divide evenly into a 5:7 rectangle. Don’t design something square and try to force it into a 5×7 print layout afterward, since that either crops part of the design or leaves unwanted blank borders. Decide on your final digital or print dimensions before you start arranging text, and keep anything important away from the edges either way.

Step-by-Step

1. Decide digital or print first, since that decides your aspect ratio and dimensions.
2. Open the brat generator and select your final size before you start arranging text – a preset for digital, or “Custom size…” with the dimensions from the tables above for a print card.
3. Type the party details as short line-broken lines rather than full sentences – see the wording ideas above, or borrow phrasing from 100 brat words for the headline itself.
4. Include RSVP information if it fits within the character limit; if it doesn’t, put it in the message or caption you send along with the image instead.
5. Adjust font size until your longest line fits the canvas width without wrapping awkwardly, and check contrast and readability against your chosen background.
6. Keep all text inside a safe area, away from the very edge of the canvas – especially important for a print card that may get trimmed.
7. Export as PNG once the layout reads clearly.
8. Preview the exported image on the device or format you’ll actually use it on – a phone screen for digital, or a printed proof for a physical card, before sending it to everyone.
9. For a printed card, confirm bleed and trim requirements with your printer before placing the final order, and use their template if one is available.

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FAQ

We checked these canvas sizes and DPI figures against the export options currently available in the brat generator. Bleed and trim requirements can vary by print shop, so confirm those specifically with the printer you use.