Graffiti letters for your name and tag

What graffiti letters are

Graffiti letters are how writers paint their names on walls and trains: fat, slanted, outlined letters with arrows, drips and a 3D shadow. Modern graffiti started in Philadelphia and New York in the late 1960s, when Cornbread and TAKI 183 wrote their names all over their cities, and a quick signature soon grew into whole painted pieces.

Here they come four ways: your name in our graffiti styles as a picture, the alphabet with drips to print, letters with a graffiti feel to paste into a bio or a game, and a guide to drawing your own.

Graffiti letters to print

The two PDFs are on Letter paper. In color, every letter is a spray-can color with a black line, paint dripping off its bottom and a solid 3D block behind it; to color, the same letters and drips are outlines, ready for markers. A to Z share the first sheet, the numbers the second, then each letter fills a page of its own: for a banner, a bulletin board or a name on a bedroom door.

For one letter only, tap it in the alphabet: a single page of it prints, or a PNG of it saves, in color or as an outline.

Your name in graffiti, as a PNG

Type your name or your tag in the field. Stay Weird melts it into a dripping holographic puddle, Foreign Land scrawls it in marker on torn paper, Rewind slaps it on like the sticker letters of an old ’80s tape, and Vampire Valentine paints it in gothic letters running with red. The PNG key under each saves your name on a clear background, for a sticker, a poster, a phone wallpaper or a story; on an iPhone it goes to Photos.

They are ours alone, and on video they move: press one and try it on a clip of yours.

Graffiti letter styles

• Tags: a writer’s signature in one quick line of marker or spray, the first thing every writer learns.
• Throw-ups: round bubble letters in two colors, an outline and a fill, painted fast.
• Straight letters and blockbusters: big square capitals with a thick outline and a 3D shadow, easy to read from far away.
• Wildstyle: letters bent, cut and locked into each other, with arrows and spikes, made for other writers more than for passers-by.
• Pieces: short for masterpieces, large paintings in many colors with highlights, drips and a background of their own.

How to draw graffiti letters

1. Write your word in plain capitals, lightly in pencil, with room around each letter.
2. Make every stroke fat: draw an outline around the skeleton of each letter.
3. Tilt the letters a little and let them overlap, so the word reads as one shape.
4. Add a 3D block on one side of every letter, all in the same direction.
5. Give the outline a few drips and arrows, and each letter a white highlight.
6. Go over the final lines in black marker, erase the pencil, then fill with color.

Graffiti fonts to download

For a poster, a flyer or a logo on a computer you need a font file. Free graffiti fonts on Google Fonts include Sedgwick Ave Display, drawn from real handstyles, Rubik Wet Paint, whose letters drip, and Rubik Spray Paint. The fonts of our styles are free there too: Bagel Fat One, Permanent Marker and Luckiest Guy.

For more letters to copy, see our bubble letters, Old English fonts for gang and Chicano lettering, cool fonts for a gamer tag and number fonts for a date or a crew number.

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