In recent decades, graffiti has moved from an urban nuisance to a professional business thanks to the rise of street art as a serious creative force. And with the artform ever growing in popularity, there are now a wealth of graffiti font styles available online for creatives to use as the typography in their urban artwork.
Here, we've scoured the web to find you the best examples of free fonts in a graffiti style for designers. Enjoy!
01.Typeface designer Kevin Christopher designed this gorgeous typeface, which is perfect for creating stand out poster and flyer designs
This big, bold typeface 'Urban Jungle' was created by designer Kevin Christopher of KC Fonts. The eye-catching free graffiti font is perfect for creating stand out graffiti-style posters and flyers. There's a charge to get hold of the full font but you can do personal work to your heart's content with this free demo version.
02. Blow Brush is a handwritten marker style font inspired by the hip hop culture and graffiti community
Designer and frontend developer Petar Acanski is behind this bold, quirky graffiti font Blow Brush. "Blow Brush is a handwritten marker style font inspired by the hip hop culture and graffiti community," Acanski comments on Behance. "Even though the main intention was to bring that street style to your content, the importance of font functionality was a top priority. The result are legible letters, clear type, a lot of variations and a font that is useful for a wider audience
03. The Fresh Prince font was created with a standard felt tip marker
The first font from Team Knorke, The Fresh Prince graffiti design is one of our favourites. "We had the idea for this after some beers and a discussion about the wackness of most graffiti fonts" team member Felix Schwarze comments on Behance. "We sketched the letters pretty dirty with a standard felt tip marker – street style."
04. Ideal for adding a touch of stylised street swagger to all your subway photos
Another all-cap font, designer Maelle Keita has two sets on offer for free. They are both caps, one with and one without the dripping paint element.
05. This best seller (you can donate to Ariq before downloadinG) is a simple marker style tag design
Indonesian designer Ariq Sya has created a cap-only font with numbers to boot – and with 300,015 downloads so far, it's his second most popular font.
06. Polla is a lively brush font filled with smudges and splatters
Created by Finnish designer Juha Korhonen, Polla is a wonderfully messy brush font, awash with smudges and splatters that will really bring your text to life. It's free for personal use, and if you want to use it commercially it'll cost you just €15/$20.
07. Damsterdam's bold, crooked letterforms brim with energy
Another one from Juha Korhonen, Damsterdam is a heavyweight all-caps font made of thick, rough brush strokes, with crooked, staggered letterforms that are simply full of energy. As with Polla, it's €15/$20 for commercial use but free for personal projects.
08. Happy Brown Cat
Happy Brown Cat will have you purring with delight
Who can resist a happy brown cat? This isn't your traditional graffiti font, but These dripping calligraphic letterforms are a must for digital tagging
If you're after a sick tag font then you'll have a hard time finding a better one than Måns Grebäck's Ruthless Drippin ONE, combining striking calligraphic letterforms with distinctive paint drips. It's free for personal use.
10. Peinture Fraiche
Slightly cracked letters and in-your-face drop shadow make for a fresh graffiti font
Give your graffiti a certain gallic je ne sais quoi with Quentin Aquila's Peinture Fraiche. Its bold cartoon letterforms are slightly shattered to give them extra character, and a heavy drop shadow makes them leap off the page. It's an all-caps font, but with a special set of caps, each adorned with a little arrow to add impact.
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