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Graffiti Font Generator

Type a name and see it as a marker tag, a spray-paint throw-up or a drippy wildstyle piece — 10 styles, your colours, a transparent PNG at the end.

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Marker tag: A flat black handstyle — download it transparent and it drops onto any photo.

Background:

Pick a graffiti look

10 styles. Each one is your text, live.

How it works

How to make graffiti text

  1. Type a name

    A tag name, a crew name, a title — short works best. Graffiti lettering is built for three or four letters, not a sentence.

  2. Pick a style

    Each of the 10 thumbnails is your own text, drawn live. Marker tag and Pastel tag are handstyles; Throw-up, Wildstyle and Chrome are fills.

  3. Set the paint

    Override the fill with the colour picker, and switch the backdrop to the style’s own, white, black or transparent.

  4. Download the PNG

    Copy the image straight to the clipboard, or download it. Nothing leaves the browser at any point.

The vocabulary

Tag, throw-up, piece and wildstyle

The four words are not interchangeable, and getting them right is most of sounding like you know what you are looking at.

A tag is a signature: one colour, one pass, marker or a single can. It is the base unit — everything else is a tag made bigger. A throw-up is that name inflated into bubble letters and filled fast, normally two colours and two or three letters, because it is built for speed. A piece, short for masterpiece, is the slow version: several colours, a 3D block, highlights, sometimes a background and characters around it.

Wildstyle is a kind of piece rather than a separate rung. The letters interlock, sprout arrows and bend into one another until they are unreadable to anyone outside — which is part of the point. It grew out of New York writing in the 1970s, alongside the Philadelphia and New York tagging that started the whole thing in the late 1960s.

The styles above line up with that: Marker tag and Pastel tag are handstyles, Throw-up is the two-colour fill, Wildstyle and Chrome are piece finishes, and Blackbook outline is the pencil stage before any paint.

Honestly

What a graffiti font generator can and cannot do

It cannot give you graffiti you can paste into a bio. Copy-paste font generators work by swapping your letters for Unicode characters that already exist — 𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓽, 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠, ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔ. There is no graffiti alphabet in Unicode and there never will be one: a handstyle carries pressure and speed, and a throw-up is an outline, a fill and a block stacked on top of each other. None of that is a character.

So this page draws instead. Your text is rendered onto a canvas in a real typeface, with real outlines, shadows and extruded blocks, and you get a PNG. That is heavier than copying a string, but it buys you things characters cannot do: your own colours, a genuine transparent background, and letters that stay sharp at whatever size you drop them in. If you specifically need something pasteable, bubble letters are the closest Unicode gets to a throw-up.

Where it lands

Using the PNG

Transparent is the setting that matters. Export a marker tag with no backdrop and it sits on a photo of a wall, a band flyer or a dark profile banner without a white box around it — and the same file works on light and dark backgrounds, which a screenshot never does. To put it over a picture, run both through add text to image; for a title that has to survive being shrunk to a phone-sized rectangle, the Neon night and Chrome styles hold up best in the thumbnail maker.

For a shirt or a sticker, keep the name to one short word, use Throw-up or Chrome, and check the pixel dimensions of the download against what your printer asks for — the canvas is sized for screens, so a chest print is fine and a back print may not be. For a crew logo, start from Blackbook outline: an outline-only version is what you redraw over, and it prints in one colour.

Worth saying once: painting a wall you do not own is criminal damage wherever you live. This is lettering for screens, paper, and surfaces that belong to you.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is there a copy-and-paste graffiti font?

No, and there cannot be. Copy-paste font generators swap your letters for Unicode characters that already exist — script, gothic, bubble. Unicode has no graffiti alphabet, because a tag is handwriting and a throw-up is an outline plus a fill plus a block, none of which is a character. That is why this page hands back an image instead of text.

How do I get graffiti text with a transparent background?

Pick a style, set Background to Transparent, then Download PNG. The letters, outlines and shadows are kept and everything behind them is cut away, so the file drops straight onto a photo, a wall shot or a dark thumbnail.

What is the difference between a tag and a throw-up?

A tag is a signature: one colour, written in one pass with a marker or a single can. A throw-up is that same name blown up into bubble letters and filled quickly, usually in two colours — one outline, one fill. A piece is the slow version with multiple colours, 3D and highlights.

Can I use these graffiti images commercially?

Yes. The typefaces are Sedgwick Ave Display, Permanent Marker, Rubik Spray Paint, Rubik Wet Paint and Bangers, released under the SIL Open Font License or Apache 2.0, and both licences let you sell what you set in them. You just cannot sell the font files themselves. Check the pixel size before sending anything to a printer.