Yet traditional standards of beauty aside, it is interesting how the style of graffiti writing has so ... whether it’s Giant’s lettering that seems almost severed out of the skin or Ces ...

In New York, bands of urchin-artisans took up Cornbread’s style—stick letters, tags—and made it an art form. Graffiti now adorns the walls of museums from Brooklyn to Berlin, and sells for ...

But all this ignores the fact that over the years, most graffiti artists develop and perfect their own lettering style. Even throw-ups and tags which to an untrained eye seem banal and meaningless ...