25 free graffiti fonts for designers

Brilliant street art can bring even the dullest area to life.

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A form of self-expression, many artists use graffiti to make names or even the most common words stand out.

With the art form ever growing in popularity, there are now a wealth of graffiti fonts available online for creatives to use in their urban artwork.

Here, we've scoured the web to find you 25 top examples of free graffiti fonts for designers. Enjoy!

01. Street Writer

Give your graffiti illustrations an authentic feel with this cool Street Writer font by Noah. The interesting design incorporates small pictures outside of each letter and includes a full set of uppercase letters and numbers.

FORMAT: TTF

02. Amsterdam Graffiti

Designer Jesse Kuiper was the brains behind this brilliant Amsterdam Graffiti font. A popular choice, it's received nearly 1.4million downloads since its release. It's free for personal use only, with donations to the author, as always, welcome.

FORMAT: TTF

03. Graffiti Treat

Graffiti Treat was created by Typodermic Fonts founder Ray Larabie. He comments, "Graffiti Treat is a staggered, angular, graffiti inspired display font."

FORMAT: OTF

04. JustFist

This strong, bold, graffiti-inspired font comes complete with two files; a traditional design and another that features paint drips from each letter. However, there are no lowercase letters, numbers or special characters. Free for personal use only.

FORMAT: TTF

05. Zit Graffiti

Make an impact with this cool block font Zit Graffiti was created by designer Olivier "Zitoune" D. Free for personal use, Zit Graffiti includes a full set of uppercase letters only.

06. El&font Block

Typeface designer Jérôme Delage is the brains behind this brilliant graffiti design - El&font (see what he did there?) Block. A member of Dafont.com - the archive of freely downloadable fonts - Delage is the author of 8 typefaces on the popular site, which collectively have been download over 7 million times!

FORMAT: TTF

07. Urban Jungle

This big, bold typeface 'Urban Jungle' was created by designer Kevin Christopher of KC Fonts. The eye-catching design 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. 

FORMAT: OTF

08. Ghang

Måns Grebäck is a graphic designer who specialises font, logotype and typography design. He developed this brilliant graffiti-inspired design Ghang, as well as a host of other typefaces in this particular style. The demo version of Ghang is available as a free download or the full font can be purchased for $59 on Grebäck's site Mawns . 

FORMAT: TTF

09. Nosegrind

This cool design comes from Scriptorium Fonts, an Austin, Texas-based type foundry started in 1992 by game designer, editor and historian Dave Nalle. Describing the typeface, Nalle says on his website, 'Nosegrind is based on skate-culture graffiti gleaned from various samples of similar style found on walls in Austin and online'. 

FORMAT: TTF

10. The Pricks

We love this simple block font with mean spikes by Orlando-based designer Hydro74 aka Joshua M. Smith. The design is just one of many typefaces Hydro74 has come up with. While many of them you have to pay for, the generous designer also has a bunch of brilliant free fonts up for grabs on his site. 

FORMAT: OTT, TTF

11. The Graffiti Font

This handmade graffiti font was created by 27-year-old graphic designer Mike Karolos who currently works as an art director in Athens. The bold colour and fresh, funky feel to this typeface makes it perfect for injecting life to any bare wall. Only upper case letters are available but the font is free for both personal and commercial use. 

FORMAT: PNG

12. Degrassi

Degrassi typeface creator Ray Larabie describes this design as a 'somewhat wack, graffiti inspired font', which pretty much sums it up. President of Japanese company Typodermic Fonts, Larabie has designed numerous typefaces, many of which are free to download on his site.

FORMAT: OTF, TTF

13. Brock Vandalo

Graphic design student Luis Marques aka Brock Marques is the man behind this graffiti-inspired type. The design features rounded shaped characters with thin ends and hairpin bends. Marques describes his typeface as being 'joyous and sometimes disorganised but with a sense of urban scrawl graffiti'.

FORMAT: TTF

14. Inner City

We love this 3D drop font by type designer Mike Wolf. His particular use of colour in the above design reminds us of the old school graffiti you still see on the walls of many concrete jungles around the globe. Free for personal use, the font includes a full set of caps and digits.

FORMAT: TTF

15. Graffonti

This cool 3D drop font was created by 30-year-old programmer Xero who has created typefaces as a hobby since 1997. The designer runs the site Fontvir.us where you can read all about and download more of his brilliant creations.  

FORMAT: TTF

16. Please show me love

Designer Andrew Hart is the author of Dirt 2, a site dedicated to design resources - a section of which offers font downloads. There are many to choose from but we particularly liked his handwritten scrapbook-inspired font titled 'Please show me love'. Note: the free version is limited to demo only for non-commercial purposes. 

FORMAT: OTF, TTF

17. Hardkaze

This casual looking, hand drawn font was designed by Jakob Fischer aka Pizzadude. Based in Copenhagen, Fischer describes his style as 'Loose, laid back and goofy, which especially comes to expression through unique handmade fonts.' 

FORMAT: TTF

18. Whoa

If you're looking for a graffiti-style font that packs a punch then check out this 'Whoa' font by Stockholm-based creative Johan Waldenström. The designer comments on his site 11-D productions, 'As a kid I was often fascinated by all the hiphop graffiti I saw around the early 90's. The oldschool era of graffiti was (and still is) very fascinating to me'.

FORMAT: TTF

19. Ruthless One

Another typeface from Måns Grebäck, we couldn't not include this brilliant Ruthless One design. The designer has nearly 100 fonts available to download for free personal use on Dafont.com, many of them with a graffiti style. For a full collection of Grebäck's work, head over to his website Mawns.

FORMAT: TTF

20. DJ Gross

Despite its name, there's nothing at all gross about this hand drawn graffiti font. The design comes from Finland-based designer who goes by the name of Ritzy (real name Sami), owner of SD Fonts. And thanks to generous creative, DJ Gross is just one of many fonts he has created and offered as a free download. 

FORMAT: TTF

21. QUB

QUB isn't exactly your average casual graffiti style typeface. Unlike many of the other laid back designs, this is the complete opposite. And that's why we like it. Bihać-based designer Adi Dizdarevic created the cool modular, block font, which he has very generously allowed anyone who wants to use it in personal projects to download for free.

FORMAT: OTF, TTF

22. The Battle Continues

The Battle Continues was created by typeface designer Christopher Hansen. Dedicated to his craft, this creative has 28 gorgeous fonts available as a free download on Dafont.com. With over 8 million downloads collectively, it is clear to see - just from this graffiti-inspired piece - why this designer's work is so popular. 

FORMAT: TTF

23. Broken Records

Fancy adding a bit of a sophistication and sexy to your designs? Then take advantage of this beautiful typeface by freelance designer Timo Kuilder. Broken Records is available in two versions, fill and outline and includes a full set of capital letters and digits.

FORMAT: TTF

24. ReskaGraf

Base your designs around this bold typeface for a really eye-catching piece of work. ReskaGraf was created by designer Olivier Zitoune, who also composed another similar styled font titled Zit Graffiti. The free font set includes a mixture of both capital and lower case letters and digits 0-9.

FORMAT: TTF

25. Graffogie

Graphic and web designer Ogeday Koç is the designer behind this street style typeface Graffogie. The free font has a full range of upper, lower and special characters available for both personal and commercial use. 

FORMAT: TTF

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Have you seen any great free fonts with a flavour of the street? Tell us about them in the comments!