Choosing between them
The style is usually chosen by the job rather than by preference. A throw-up and a blockbuster exist because speed and distance were the constraints; wildstyle exists because competition between writers pushed legibility down; stencil exists because the design had to be reproducible.
So the first question is not which style you like best. It is what the piece has to do — be read from across a street, be printed on a shirt at 250 mm, be decoded slowly by someone who knows the form, or be reproduced identically in ten places.
The families in one line each
- Bubble Letters — Bubble letters explained: how fat, round graffiti lettering is constructed, why the counter is the whole letter, and the mistakes that turn it into a blob.
- Throw-Ups & Blockbusters — Throw-ups and blockbusters explained: how the styles built for speed and distance are constructed, and why letter spacing matters more than the letters.
- Wildstyle — Wildstyle lettering explained: interlocking letters, arrows and negative space — how the hardest graffiti style is built, and how to keep it readable.
- 3D Letters — 3D graffiti letters explained: extrusion, drop shadows and vanishing points — how depth is built on a flat surface, and the rule that makes it work.
- Stencil Letters — Stencil graffiti letters explained: bridges, gaps and cut-out construction — how the letterform is designed around the tool it is cut with.
You do not have to pick one
Most developed pieces mix families deliberately. A bubble skeleton with a 3D block shadow, a blockbuster with a couple of wildstyle extensions, or a handstyle dropped into a wildstyle composition are all normal. The families describe technique, not rules about what can sit next to what.
Where mixing does need care is consistency of stroke weight. Two families in one piece will read as intentional if every stroke feels cut from the same ribbon, and as a mistake if they do not.
Every style has its own guide
The five families above describe technique; the studio ships fifteen specific styles built on them. Each guide covers construction, history and common mistakes, and links straight into the generator with that style preloaded.