Graffiti Letter Generator

Printing a graffiti poster

It depends on how big you want the finished piece:

• Up to a page: “Printable PDF (whole phrase)” fits the design on one US Letter or A4 sheet and turns the page sideways for long words.
• Bigger than a page, at home: “Printable PDF (one letter per page)” puts each letter on its own sheet. Trim the margins and tape the letters side by side, overlapping the shadows a little.
• Poster at a print shop: set “Finished width” to the poster width, then download the PNG. It's rendered at 300 pixels per inch of that width, up to 6,000 pixels, so anything wider than 20 inches gets fewer pixels per inch. For really big prints, ask if the shop takes SVG. It's vector, so there's no resolution limit.

In the print dialog choose 100% or “Actual size”, not “Fit to page”. “Outline only” prints black contours without the shadow. It's cheap on ink and good for coloring in. “Filled” prints your colors, and the whole-phrase PDF adds the shadow too.

Making a stencil from the letters

1. Print the alphabet or your word with Outline only, one letter per page.
2. Fix the sheet to cardstock or stencil film and cut along the outer line with a craft knife on a cutting mat.
3. Watch the enclosed shapes (the middle of A, B, D, O, P, Q and R). They fall out when cut, so leave two or three thin uncut bridges to hold them, or paint them in by hand afterward. Or let the stencil font generator add the bridges for you.

Stencil letters are sturdier when you cut the outline shape rather than the thin letter strokes: set the print style to “Filled”, make the letters the same color as the outline, and you get one bold silhouette per letter to trace. If you'd rather start with letters that already have bridges, look at these stencil fonts.

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Cutting it in vinyl or cardstock

The SVG stacks three shapes, bottom to top: Shadow, Outline and Lettering. Each is a separate layer with its own color, so a three-color decal is three cuts that you layer on top of each other. Cricut Design Space reads every shape in an uploaded SVG as a cut line and keeps the size saved in the file. Upload it with Upload → Upload Image. The layers come in grouped, so ungroup them to resize or recolor one layer on its own.

Source: Cricut Help Center: How to upload images into Design Space · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Calculated, not machine-tested The shapes come straight from the font outlines and a traced offset for the outline layer. No machine was used to check them, so do a small test cut first.

Which font for which job

Pieces matter for cutting: a letter that splits into several parts means more weeding and more bits to place. The last column was calculated from each font's capitals with the same code the generator uses.

Bungee Shade's shading is part of every letter, which is why nearly all of them come in several pieces: great in print, fiddly in vinyl. For cutting, Permanent Marker and Sedgwick Ave Display are the simplest.

All five fonts come from the Google Fonts collection under the SIL Open Font License or the Apache License 2.0, so you can use them on shirts, decals and prints you sell (just not the font files). A font from anywhere else comes with its own terms, so look it up in font licenses for sellers or drop the file into the font license checker. If it's one of Canva's built-in fonts, see what Canva lets you sell with its fonts. For more street styles, browse more graffiti fonts with a commercial license.

Not legal advice: read the font’s own license before you sell.

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