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Brat Album Font
Arial is the documented base for the processed cover artwork.
The lowercase word on Charli XCX's Brat cover looks deliberately plain, soft, and compressed. Direct design-team evidence identifies Arial as its base, but the final image is a processed piece of artwork rather than untouched typesetting. This article is independent and has no affiliation with Charli XCX or her label.
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Arial is the documented base
Confidence: high. Dinamo's account of the project states that the cover type is Arial and explains that the artwork was created at a small resolution before being resized for different formats. The right relationship is therefore 'Arial-based artwork': the blur, proportions, spacing, and raster treatment are part of the result, so a default text setting will not be identical.
Sources: abcdinamo.com
Typeface identity and availability
Microsoft's typography documentation attributes Arial to Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders at Monotype and lists it as software supplied with Microsoft products. That documentation does not offer Arial as a general free download. Dinamo also identifies ROM as a secondary campaign typeface, which should not be confused with the four-letter cover treatment.
Sources: learn.microsoft.com, abcdinamo.com