Album tracklist maker

Why a tracklist is a design object

A tracklist is the only part of an album that gets read twice: once to find the song you came for and once to work out what to play next. That double pass means it carries more of the record’s personality than the cover does, and it is the piece of artwork most likely to be screenshotted and argued about.

Which also explains why the format is so forgiving. A numbered list of short phrases on a flat field is already a complete design — there is nothing to get wrong, and the only real decisions are what to include and how much space to leave.

Numbering, and why it is not neutral

Numbers turn a list of titles into a sequence with a beginning. Without them, the reader scans for a word they recognise; with them, the reader starts at 1 and reads in order. That is the difference between a menu and a tracklist, and it is why the tool numbers automatically rather than leaving it to you to type.

The consequence worth knowing: numbering makes the running order a claim. If track 7 is the best song, everyone will notice that it is track 7.

What fits

Fourteen tracks is the ceiling, and it is a real one — past that the type shrinks until the list stops being comfortable to read at post size. Fourteen is also a good editorial limit, because most albums that need eighteen tracks needed eleven.

Title length matters more than count. A list of two-word titles reads as an album; a list of full sentences reads as a tracklist for a concept record about a legal dispute. Keep the average under about twenty characters and the layout will hold itself together.

The copyright line, because it matters here

This tool draws your own text. Type your own track titles and the output is entirely yours, with nothing to clear. What it is not is a way to reproduce somebody else’s artwork or lyrics — the format borrows a visual language, which is normal, and copying a specific release’s back cover or pasting lyric lines into the fields would be a different thing entirely. The quote card maker has the longer note on where that line sits.

Where these get posted

• Release announcements — a tracklist is a promise of content, and it outperforms a cover on its own.
• Playlists — a ten-song list with a title is an album for the person who made it, and they will treat it as one.
• Compilations and mixtapes — the format is native to this and has been for forty years.
• Event line-ups — swap the numbering for a date and a club night becomes a poster.
• Reading lists — a year in books, formatted like a record, is a genuinely good post.

FAQ

Can I change the numbering to dates or letters?

No — sequential numbers are the format. If you want dates, type them into the line and accept the number in front of them, or use the square canvas and treat it as a list.

Why does my text get small?

Because the tool fits the list to the canvas rather than letting it overflow, which is the correct behaviour for a fixed export. Cut a track or shorten a title.

Can I put a cover image on it?

Not here. This is a text layout tool with a fixed field colour. Compositing an image behind it is a different job — the photo overlay tool is the closest thing on this site.

Is anything stored?

No. The list is drawn in your browser and the PNG is assembled locally. Close the tab and it is gone.