28 Best Graffiti Fonts For Urban Designs (2024)
Graffiti fonts are ideal for street art, stickers, and any other designs in which you’re trying to create that eclectic urban aesthetic. They’re powerful, edgy, and full of personality.
To help you to find the perfect typeface for your street-style design projects, we’ve compiled a list of the best graffiti fonts on the market.
We hand-picked this list and made sure to only include the very best typefaces from the very best designers. There’s a mix of free and premium options, so you should be able to find something that fits your project and budget.
What Are Graffiti Fonts?
Graffiti fonts are typefaces inspired by street art. They’re be brash, loud, and characterful, and they usually look as if they’ve been scratched, scribbled, or sprayed onto a surface.
There are many different types of graffiti fonts, but some of the most popular include:
- Stencil fonts. These try to recreate the look you’d get by spray painting graffiti over a stencil. Think Banksy.
- Throw-up fonts. These are tag-like fonts that usually consist of bubble letters.
- Wildstyle fonts. Wildstyle is a complicated, intricate style of graffiti. These types of fonts tend to be hard to read and heavily stylized.
- Dripping fonts. This style of graffiti font has letterforms that look as if they’re dripping paint.
- Brush fonts. These are typefaces that try to emulate the strokes of a paintbrush
- Scribbled fonts. This type of graffiti font looks as if it’s been roughly and carelessly handwritten with a pen or pencil, kind of like you might doodle in a notebook.
Unlike other types of fonts, Graffiti fonts aren’t designed with readability in mind. They’re purely artistic. As such, they aren’t usually a good choice for things like headlines or body text, but they’re very artistic and can look great on posters, fashion products, and stickers.
28 Best Graffiti Fonts
1. Nightfate – Our Top Pick
Nightfate, by figuree, is the most popular graffiti font on Envato Elements — and I can see why. It uses bold, bubble-like characters with a mix of rounded edges and sharp corners and comes in TTF, OTF, and WOFF formats.
Why it’s our top pick
Nightfate has everything we’re looking for in a graffiti font. It uses a classic throw-up style design that should be familiar to anyone that’s ever lived in an urban area. It’s a versatile script that wouldn’t look out of place in a street art mural but would also work well equally well in apparel design, wall decorations and stickers, and even logotype.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
2. Rollover
Rollover is a dope graffiti font by Vunira. The dripping effect makes the letterforms look as if they’ve been sprayed on and the paint’s still wet. It also makes this a good font for horror-themed designs as in the right color, the dripping effect can call to mind blood. It might work well on horror book covers, stickers, and movie posters. The font pack also comes with stylistic alternates, ligatures, and swashes.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
3. Throw-up Font
Here’s a cool, layered throw-up font by designer Gasper Muñoz. The designer (who has a background in graffiti) took inspiration from graffiti culture, particularly “bombs” and “flops”, a subtype of graffiti that can be created quickly and is known for its simple shapes.
Flops and bombs are typically made with spraypaint and valves that let the paint transition between thin and thick strokes, and Gasper has tried to capture this in his typeface. Don’t you just love those cute, rounded letterforms?
The font pack comes with four versions: stroke, fill, shadow, and highlight. These different variations can be layered on top of each other to create eye-catching designs that seem to jump off the page.
Price: Free
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
4. Hayword
Hayword is another cool graffiti style by designer garisman. It’s inspired by street art and reminds me of the kind of tags you might see on a brick wall. It’d work well on hip-hop designs, streetwear apparel, and wall art. It comes with uppercase letters, punctuation, and numerals in OTF and TTF format.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
5. Luser
Luser is a modern street art font inspired by hip-hop culture and graffiti. It features smooth brushstrokes that look dope and it’s one of the more readable graffiti fonts on this list so it can work well in headlines.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
6. Bombsky
Forget Banksy, let me introduce you to Bombsky—a graffiti font by Blankids. As the name suggests, the design is based on classic graffiti bombs (reminder: bombs are simple graffiti tags that can be thrown up quickly). I can see this looking really nice on a hip-hop album cover.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
7. Punk Kid
Release your inner punk with this free graffiti-style stencil font by Chris Hansen. Punk Kid is unlike the other fonts we’ve looked at so far in that it uses a classic stencil style, with neat, uniform letterforms. Like stenciled letters, there are breaks in the face of each glyph.
What makes Punk Kid different from classic stencil fonts, though, is the cool eroded texture and speckled effect, both of which make it lt look as if it’s been messily sprayed on in a rush. It’s a very rebellious font that would look great on grudge designs, band websites, album covers, concert posters, and more.
This font has generously been made available for free, even for commercial use. But if you’d like to show your gratitude, the designer encourages you to donate to the koala hospital in NSW.
Price: Free
8. Beslyn
Beslyn is a sleek, sophisticated graffiti-type font by Skiiler Studio. The elegant style lends itself well to more serious, professional, or stylish designs and it looks especially nice when set against darker backgrounds. It’s an inline typeface, which means it has a thin hairline stroke within each letterform to add contrast and visual interest.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
9. Hosp
Hosp is an edgy calligraphic script by Nick Asphodel Design. The designer wanted to ‘help artistic people to create spectacular designs’ and crafted Hosp by hand using a pointed brush. The leaning, angled letterforms, ink spots, and rough brushstrokes look dope and create a powerful atmosphere. This one would be perfect for edgy product designs, cap prints, stickers, and other urban designs.
Price: Free
10. Airneo
Airneo is another awesome graffiti font that makes me think of basketball courts, sneakers, and hip hop. It uses a fun, interesting, and bold design, with interesting flourishes like arrowheads on the end of crossbars to add flair. It features uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual glyphs.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
11. Mind The Gap
Mind the Gap is another stencil font that can work well in street art and graffiti-inspired designs. The designer was inspired by the love/hate relationship he had with his daily commute in London (hence the name, which should be familiar to anyone who’s ever traveled on the underground).
The font reflects the industrial, utilitarian nature of underground stations in big cities. It was made by hand cutting letter stencils and spray-painting over them. The military look is offset by deliberate imperfections that make it look almost dirty and inject some personality into what would otherwise be a relatively boring design.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
12. Road Rage
Road Rage is an aggressive graffiti font by Youssef Habchi. The sharp angles and textured brushstrokes add impact and make this one of the feistiest-looking fonts on this list. I’m getting angry just looking at it.
Price: Free
13. Bradwall
Next up, we have the Bradwall graffiti font by Blankids. Don’t you think this would look dope on a skateboard? Again, it uses that familiar throw-up style with rounded bubble letterforms. It comes in two styles: regular and outline.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
14. Insanity
Insanity is a modern graffiti-type font with its own unique sense of style, from TKK studio. The designer has opted for thinner strokes instead of the bubble letters you often find in throw-up style fonts, which makes this one a little more versatile. It’s chaotic, wild, and hella gangster. Try it out on your posters, street magazines, YouTube covers, thumbnails, and social posts.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
15. Diediedie Font
Next up, we have something a little different. Diediedie is a self-styled ‘evil scribbled font that definitely should not be trusted’. Instead of brush strokes or spray paint, it emulates the kind of maniac, unhinged scribbles one might do with a pen in a notebook.
It’s scary and a little violent, which makes it the perfect font for horror designs and rock music album covers. Aside from all the usual glyphs, the designer has also included some nifty dingbats (like a pentagram and skull) that you can use to liven up your designs.
Price: Free
16. Snakehead
Snakehead is a tag-like script font that would look great in logos, streetwear, branding, and other designs. It’s an all-caps font that comes with A-Z letters, numbers, and punctuation, as well as various alternates and swashes.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
17. Flim Flom
Imbue your designs with that handcrafted aesthetic with Flim Flom by Maulana Creative. It’s a highly-decorative typeface that looks like it was drawn with a sharpie or marker. Small touches like replacing the tittle on letters like i and j with crosses add visual interest and make this one of the most original fonts on this list.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
18. Degrassi Font
Degrassi is a wacky graffiti-inspired font that features wavy lines and strokes that end in arrowheads. It’s available for free and would work well in game graphics, t-shirts, logos, posters, and more.
Price: Free
19. MWD Graff
MWD Graff is a wildstyle graffiti font by Priority Type Co. In true wildstyle fashion, it features intricate, complicated strokes and is very detailed. It’s not the most readable font on this list, but it’s very artistic. It comes in two styles: basic and extrude. You can add the extrude version behind the regular version as a layer to create a 3D effect.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
20. Fillings Urban
Fillings Urban is a chunky graffiti style font inspired by youth culture. It’s characterized by curvaceous letterforms, thick strokes, and counters that look like crosses. It looks vaguely cartoonish and could work well in comics and cartoons as well as urban, street-inspired designs.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
21. The Graffiti Font
The aptly named ‘graffiti font’ by Mike Karolos is fun and playful. It’s not as aggressive looking as some of the other fonts on this list and might work well in child-friendly designs like children’s book covers, mobile games, and toy product packaging.
Price: Free
22. Street Urban
Street Urban is another fun and bold graffiti-inspired font. It looks great in bright, vibrant colors and like the last font would be perfect for child-friendly designs like kids posters and book covers.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
23. Bowings
Bowings is a tall, bold graffiti font with a fun theme. It’s great for cartoons, comics, stickers, and wall art.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
24. Autobahn
Autobahn (that’s German for motorway) is another dope stencil typeface with lots of detail. It’s a lot like Mind The Gap, but with a few touches that give it its own unique flair. It’s not a traditional vector font and instead uses the new OpenType SVG format, which is why it’s so realistic and detailed.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
25. Free Graffiti Front
If you’re looking for a unique graffiti font that you can use for free, this is it. It has a Wildstyle-inspired design with wavy letters that can be hard to read, so it won’t work well in body text but is perfect for displays.
Price: Free
26. Nezuko
Nezuko is a quirky font with sharp angles and no curves whatsoever. It’s not a traditional graffiti font but it does incorporate some elements that are characteristic of the style. It’s very aesthetically pleasing and might look really nice in indie game titles, book covers, and movie posters.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
27. Dirty Lizard
Dirty Lizard is another tag-style graffiti font that would be a nice addition to a wide range of design projects. It could work on everything from logos and labels to apparel designs and headings.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
28. Wall Painter
Last but not least, we have Wall Painter — a rough brush font from Tokopress. Unlike most other graffiti fonts, this one doesn’t have a spray-painted effect. It looks as if the designer painted on with wide brush strokes. It’s ideal for rebellious designs like protest banners, music posters, edgy social media posts, and music magazines.
Price: Personal and commercial use included in an Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month)
How To Pick A Graffiti Font
As you can see, there are lots of graffiti fonts out there to choose from — so how do you pick the right one for your project? Well, here are some factors to think about when weighing up your options:
- Style. Graffiti fonts come in all sorts of shapes and styles, like wildstyle, throw-up, stencil, etc. Try to choose one that matches the aesthetic of your artwork or design project.
- Compatibility with your design software. Make sure to choose a font that’ll work with the design software you’re using. Some file extensions (like SVG color fonts) may only work with Photoshop and Illustrator, etc.
- License. Many of the free fonts on this list are only free for personal use. If you plan on using your graffiti font for a commercial or promotional project, you may need to purchase a license. Make sure you read the small print to be sure.
We hope you found this helpful. Good luck!
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