Give designs an urban feel with these free graffiti fonts.
(Image credit: Misha Vlasov)
The best free graffiti fonts can add an urban edge or punch to various design assets. Graffiti comes in a wide range of styles, and so do the best free graffiti fonts, from graffiti bubble fonts to stencil fonts and jagged scrawls. Some can create a feeling of community spirit, while others hint at rebellion.
We've picked out the best graffiti fonts at each of these extremes of the spectrum, and everywhere else in between to provide a range of options for different design requirements. As always with the best free fonts, ensure you read the licence conditions before using them – some are free for personal use only while others are free for commercial use.
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First up in our pick of the best graffiti fonts, Misha Vlasov's Kelsi is a beautiful graffiti bubble font that could be great for big display text. It's a caps-only font but comes in two styles: filled and outlined. It's clearly inspired by the graffiti bubble writing style, but has a slightly refined feel to it as well as doze of quirky personality. It's free for personal and desktop commercial use.
The bubbles get even bigger in this extravagant ballooning free graffiti bubble font from Dirty Line Studio. The sample images remind me of cotton candy as much as graffiti, and it has very playful feel. I think this would look great on large posters that want to get attention. It looks good combined with a much simpler sans serif display font too. This font comes in SVG format.
03. Urban Decay
Urban Decay has everything you need from an edgy free graffiti font (Image credit: Zofos on DaFont)
Turning to more distressed graffiti fonts, Urban decay is a handmade brush font that creator Zofos made to 'celebrate graffiti, urban exploration, street calligraphy and inner city living.' This font has a rugged authenticity that will bring an urban feel to your projects. It's free to download but donations are welcome.
04. Docallisme On Street
A modern 3D take on graffiti font (Image credit: Docallisme On Street)
This font has a unique 3D effect that is reminiscent of traditional graffiti. It's chunky, bold and an excellent choice if you're looking at making a statement! This font is free to download, but the creator asks for a donation if you're looking to use it commercially.
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05. Rusto Fat Cap Brush
The Behance community love this neon font (Image credit: Luis Di Lascio/Patri Pérez)
Designed by Luis Di Lascio and Patri Pérez, Rusto Fat Cap Brush is a fun and chunky font with an authentic graffiti feel. Based on the homemade graffiti mop, this font is perfect for giving a youthful or urban vibe to a project.
06. Sprite
Sprite is a legible and approachable free graffiti font (Image credit: FontFabric)
Sprite is a functional free graffiti font, which has the benefit of being highly legible whilst keeping the graffiti feel, in a brushstroke style. Created for a wide audience, it offers an approachable way of adding an urban edge to your project.
07. Philly Sans
Philly Sans is a versatile font with a graffiti edge (Image credit: Philatype on 1001Fonts)
A heavy, lowercase-only font that has a graffiti feel while also being super clear to read, Philly Sans is certainly versatile. Made by Philatype, this is a great typeface for display type. It's free for personal use.
08. The Graffiti Font
This handmade font is graffiti at its finest (Image credit: Mike Carolos)
This colourful bubble writing packs a vibrant punch. Created by graphic designer Mike Karolos, this font is totally free but available only available in a png format (it's not keyable). It also comes in a black-and-white option.
09. Knight Brush
Knight Brush is adaptable and bold with realistic brush strokes (Image credit: Hendra Pratama on FreeFonts)
Inspired by the vintage graffiti era, Hendra Pratama created this free graffiti font with hand-painted signage in mind. This adaptable font is made to resemble real brush strokes and is a bold choice. The free version is a demo for personal use only, but you can download the full commercial option for $15.
10. Fat Wandals
Get your chisel tip on (Image credit: Mans Greback on DaFont)
Fat Wandals, created by Mans Greback, is a free, personal use-only version of his Wandals font family. It's a great-looking script font with lovely flowing strokes that look like they've been done with a chisel-tip marker, and it comes with a full set of characters with loads of variants and all the punctuation you'll need.
11. Don Graffiti
Don Graffiti is nicely urban but has a friendly feel (Image credit: Don Marciano on DaFont)
Created by Don Marciano, Don Graffiti is an old-school free graffiti font that's ideal for giving any project that extra urban touch. It's an all-caps font that comes as an OTF file featuring 197 glyphs with variants, numbers and punctuation.
12. Grizzly Attack
Get busy with the grizzly (Image credit: Rometheme on DaFont)
If grizzly bears decided to try their paws at graffiti by scratching directly onto the wall with their claws, then it might look something like this striking script font by Rometheme. It's all-caps, with numerals and a decent selection of extra characters.
13. Crevice Stencil
Crevice Stencil is edgy yet elegant (Image credit: Chequered Ink on FontSpace)
A stencil font that steers an original path between ornate and edgy, Crevice Stencil is a free font created for the community by Bath design studio Chequered Ink. You can use this font for free in personal projects, but if you want to use it for commercial purposes you’ll need to purchase a licence.
14. Mersey Cowboy
Get messy with Mersey Cowboy (Image credit: Chequered Ink on FontSpace)
Another font from Chequered Ink, this option is more closely aligned with the splatter side of graffiti. Mersey Cowboy is one of the best free graffiti fonts if you want your type to look messy and chaotic, but still very readable. Again, this graffiti font is free for personal use, but you’ll need to shell out for a licence to use it commercially.
15. Nebulous
Nebulous takes a grungy approach to stencil-style typography (Image credit: Highlight on FontSpace)
Nebulous is a decorative free font that brings a touch of distressed sci-fi chic to the stencil font category. Created by Brazilian designer Pobrenerd, this font is free for both personal and commercial use.
16. Sloppy Paint
Sloppy Paint free graffiti font is fluorescent, fun and downright fabulous (Image credit: Darrell Flood on FontSpace)
Sloppy Paint looks exactly like it sounds, replete with happy, day-glo colours and fat, cartoony shapes. Created by Japanese game designer Darrell Flood, aka dadiomouse, this graffiti font is free to to download for your personal use, Flood asks that a minimum of $10 be donated for commercial use.
17. Thickedy Grunge
Thickedy Grunge is free for personal use only (Image credit: Chequered Ink on FontSpace)
This is another great free graffiti font that looks exactly as its name suggests. It's another one from Bath design studio Chequered Ink. Again, it's free for personal use, but if you want it for a commercial project you’ll need to buy a licence.
18. Fibre
All-caps font fibre is earthy and authentic, yet still easy to read (Image credit: WildOnes Design)
Fibre is a handwritten, all-caps font with a wild and scratchy feel to it. At the same time, the kerning and font metrics have been designed to provide a clean and easy reading experience, so it's not a case of style over substance. Created by Latvian studio Wild Ones Design, this font is free for personal use in return for your email address.
19. Metro Grunge
Metro Grunge is fizzing with DIY energy (Image credit: Peter Olexa on DaFont)
Metro Grunge is a free font from Peter Olexa, a freelance designer from Bratislava, Slovakia. Fizzing with the energy of the underground (both metaphorical and actual), this font is free for both personal and commercial use.
20. Humblle Rough
Humblle Rough has a delicious sense of imbalance to it (Image credit: Dirtyline Studios)
Humblle Rough is a handwritten brush typeface with a heady street-style look. This free graffiti font has an imperfect, freehand flow. This is another font created by Dirtyline Studios, and is free to download for personal use only.
21. Vitruvian Man
Vitruvian Man represents painted scrawl at its most primal (Image credit: Chequered Ink on FontSpace)
This font is wild, wild, wild: if you want to draw out the angry, vandalistic side of graffiti culture, Vitruvian Man could well be a great choice. Designed by Chequered Ink, this font is free for personal use only.
22. Sister Spray
ImageX's Sister Spray is gloriously messy (Image credit: Imagex on DaFont)
Get messy with this fantastically rough and ready font, again from ImageX. It's made up of a full set of spray-painted uppercase characters, plus a couple of lowercase ones for emphasis, as well as some splatters, splodges and strokes to complete the look. It's free for personal use; contact ImageX if you want to use it commercially.
23. Tag Type
Graphic designer Andy Panchenko was inspired by graffiti tags when creating this edgy design (Image credit: Andy Panchenko)
If you're looking for the style used in graffiti tags, this could be one of the best graffiti fonts for your project. Graffiti font Tag Type was created by graphic designer Andy Panchenko. A student project, Panchenko's design was inspired by graffiti tags he saw in the streets. It's free for personal use.
24. Blow Brush
Blow Brush is a handwritten marker style font inspired by the hip hop culture and graffiti community (Image credit: Petar Acanski)
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."
25. Gang Bang Crime
This font is ideal for adding a touch of stylised street swagger to your subway photos (Image credit: Maelle Keita)
Designer Maelle Keita has two sets of this all-cap free graffiti font on offer, one with and one without the dripping paint element. It offers a great subway graffiti style. This font is free for personal use only.
26. Polla
Polla is a lively brush font filled with smudges and splatters (Image credit: Juha Korhonen on 1001Fonts)
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.
27. Damsterdam
Damsterdam's bold, crooked letterforms brim with energy (Image credit: Junkohanhero on Fonts)
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.
Missing font or want us to consider including your? Don't hesitate to get in touch. You might also want to see our picks of the best movie fonts and the best magazine fonts.
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Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.
