Portrait
Photocopied zine
Punk, hardcore, DIY shows
The DIY flyer look — halftoned, slightly wrecked, and legible stapled to a lamppost. Works on type alone.
Use this templateGig Poster Templates
12 starting points for a show poster — photocopied zine, neon, photo-led and print layouts, already sized for Instagram, stories, Facebook events and A4. Pick one, put your lineup in, download it. Free, no signup, and nothing is locked once it opens.
Portrait
Heavy bill
Metal, doom, stoner
Big headline, stacked support, nothing in the way. The default when the lineup is the selling point.
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Portrait
Neon glow
Electronic, synth, club nights
Glowing type on black. Reads at thumbnail size in a feed, which is where most people will actually see it.
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Portrait
Band photo, top half
Any show with a good photo
Photo up top, details in a solid block underneath. The one to pick when you have a press shot worth showing.
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Square
Matinee square
All-ages and matinee shows
Square crop, acid accent, short bill. Stays tidy in a grid and crops cleanly wherever it gets reposted.
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Story
Story announcement
Announcing a show on stories
Full-screen vertical for an Instagram or Facebook story — the format most announcements actually go out in.
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A4 print
A4 window poster
Printing and flyposting
300dpi A4 for the venue window and the record shop counter. Print size from the start, not an Instagram file scaled up.
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A5 print
A5 merch-table flyer
Handouts and merch tables
Half the size, same 300dpi. Cheap to run off a few hundred and leave in a stack by the door.
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Facebook event
Facebook event cover
Facebook event pages
The wide crop a Facebook event header wants. A portrait poster dropped in here gets its top and bottom cut off.
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Portrait
All-dayer
Festivals and all-day shows
Built for a long bill — six acts still fit without the headline shrinking to nothing.
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Portrait
Monolith
Doom, sludge, drone
Photo block and heavy type, no accent colour fighting it. Slow, loud and mostly monochrome.
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Square
Indie square
Indie, shoegaze, dream pop
Softer glow, square crop. Less shouty than the rest of these without going quiet.
Use this templatePicking a gig poster template
A show poster has one job: someone glances at it while scrolling and three things land — who's playing, where, and when. Everything else is decoration. Every template here is built around that order, so the headline act takes the space it needs and the date never ends up as small grey text nobody reads.
Start from the format, not the look
The most common mistake is designing a beautiful portrait poster and then trying to force it into a Facebook event header, which crops the top and bottom off. Decide where the poster is going first — feed post, story, event page, printed flyer — then pick a template already sized for it. You can make the same show in several sizes; it takes a few seconds to switch.
Which size for what
- Portrait, 1080×1350 — Instagram and Facebook feed posts. Takes the most screen space as people scroll.
- Story, 1080×1920 — full-screen Instagram and Facebook stories.
- Square, 1080×1080 — safe everywhere, and keeps a grid tidy.
- Facebook event, 1920×1005 — the wide crop an event header actually wants.
- A4 and A5, 300dpi — window posters and flyers, at the resolution a print shop asks for.
How much to put on it
Headline act, support, venue, city, date, doors, price. That is the whole list. Ticket links, age restrictions and promoter logos are what the caption and the event page are for — a poster that tries to carry them stops being readable at thumbnail size, which is the only size most people will ever see it at.
Playing a show that's already listed?
If your gig is in our listings, the poster maker has a search box that fills in the lineup, venue and date for you — start there rather than typing it twice. You can see what other people have made in the poster gallery.
Questions
Are the gig poster templates free?
Yes — no account, no trial, no charge for the file. Posters carry a small moshradar.com credit at the bottom; a free account turns it off.
Can I change a template's colours and size?
Yes. A template is a starting point, not a fixed design — once it opens in the poster maker you can change the style, the accent colour and the size, and drop in your own band photo. Nothing is locked.
Which template should I use for Instagram?
Any of the portrait ones at 1080×1350 for a feed post, a story template at 1080×1920 for full-screen stories, and a square one at 1080×1080 where your grid needs to stay tidy.
Can I print these templates?
The A4 and A5 templates render at 300dpi, which is what a print shop asks for. Pick one of those from the start if the poster is going in a window — an Instagram-sized file scaled up will look soft on paper.
Do I need design software?
No. Everything runs in your browser: pick a template, type your lineup, download a PNG. Nothing to install, no account to make.
Do these templates work without a photo?
All of them do. The zine templates are designed that way on purpose, to look like a photocopied flyer. Only the photo templates really want one.