Once the graffiti movement found itself above ground, fresh styles emerged as well, through artists like Lee Quinones or Fab 5 Freddy. One of Banksy's stencils with his signature Letter Styles - Your Urban Identity Of course, there were a few artists who introduced those awesome graffiti fonts and styles still used today - Phase 2, who invented the bubble style and arrow, Dead Leg with his clouds, or Tracy 168, Stay High 149 and Zephyr, who are considered the fathers of Wildstyle. Subsequently, this led to the famous war between the subway authorities and the graffiti writers, but until it did, it was all about being original, fast, an example to the rest. The competition was so big that in 1973 the New York Magazine introduced Tags award, given to the best graffiti in the subway. In 1971, a popular tagger named TAKI 183, whose name could be found all over the subway he used to travel, gave an interview to The New York Times, and from then on, it was all about covering the train cars with your own signature, which needed to be bigger, better, prettier, shinier, more awesome than anyone else’s. With the arrival of spray can, these signatures got bigger, and more and more people wanted to leave their mark on the city surface.

It was the late 1960s and the early 1970s when young people in NYC discovered water-proof markers, known as flow-masters, which they used to write their names on the walls of buildings, phone booths, walls. Image via spraydaily Graffiti Fonts - May The Most Creative One Win!

Because the truth is that the whole graffiti culture kicked off back in the 1970s with a simple choice of one’s font.Ī graffiti throw-up in the Bronx, 2014. But before we go on and give you a few tips on how to become the next great graffiti artist by mastering your own lettering style, let us go back in time, to when it all started. If that is the case, we’re here to remind you that creativity has no boundaries and that nothing is impossible. Some of you also probably noticed those cool graffiti fonts and maybe secretly wished you could do them too, and just as well.

Even if you’re not an urban art lover of a graffiti fan, I’m sure that you’ve encountered many street pieces on the walls of the place you live in, wherever that might be.

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