Graffiti is usually appeared as graphics or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti has existed since very ancient times in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, people don’t have a photocopier or a fax machine or newspaper, and when you have a written message to let other people know, you scratched it on a wall. In modern times, however, graffiti is considered illegal in a lot of countries. But a country that with significant tradition in graffiti is Brazil and Sao Paulo, one of the largest cities in Brazil, is considered to be the current center of inspiration for graffiti artists.
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Grafio Reader - Is it safe to download? The app is 100 percent (100%) safe to download and Install. Our download links are from safe sources and are frequently virus scanned to protect you. Grafio has been around for 7 years already, polished, efficient and full of features achieved through more than 30 updates and free upgrades. Drag and drop objects on the canvas for more complex.
Graffiti can have different styles. Tagging is the simplest type of graffiti, usually done quickly in spray paint, markers or pens and lacking artistic form; A throw-up involves more work than tagging, usually having two or three colors and done in bubble letters; Stenciling can be a quick way to produce more complicated graffiti designs and by using two or more layers, you can produce color-rich designs; Wildstyle is a form of graffiti that was made popular by graffiti artists like Tracy 168, Zephyr in NYC. Graffiti in Wildstyle is relatively more complicated and artistic. There are other forms of styles such as blockbuster, hip-hop, heaven, stickers, wheat pasting, etc. So there are a lot of styles of graffiti, hence, graffiti fonts.
Depending on your preferences, there are many fonts that can be used for graffiti purposes such as bubble fonts, stencil fonts, outline fonts etc. However, for complicated graffiti styles, they can never be achieved by fonts. Graffiti fonts can be a good way to study graffiti letters or graffiti alphabet, but you really should learn to express in your style. Get inspired and check out our collection of free graffiti fonts here, or use our graffiti text generator below.
Create text-based logos or images with Graffiti Fonts
Below is a collection of graffiti fonts. The following tool will convert your desired text into images using graffiti fonts. Simply enter your text, select your desired color and size, and hit GENERATE button. You can save your image by right-clicking on the image, or get codes to embed your images on the web by clicking on the EMBED button.
ENTER FONT SIZEI love infographics and have been experimenting with creating my own for a while. I have also written an infographics project for Year 7 as part of our KS3 ICT programme, so I thought I would share a couple of the best ways I have found for making infographics either for yourself or with students.
Most of the design blogs I read in the subject seemed to require significant knowledge of Adobe Illustrator (which I haven’t got) or significant design skills (which I also don’t have!) It also seemed to be difficult to get the feel and authentic look of an infographic in most of the DTP or graphics programs I have used (though this may well be just me) so here are a couple of suggestions..
Grafio
Grafio (available or iPad and iPhone) is a hugely impressive app that allows you to create infographics (or indeed pretty much any chart or diagram) with a minimum of fuss. The app would be equally useful for creating system flowcharts or venn diagrams and there are a number of ways in which it could be used in different subject areas.
The superb design of the app means the user is given a wide set of tools, accessed through clear, simple and uncluttered interface and enhanced by clever use of gestures.
The basic Grafio tools – the “Object Properties” section changes according to context (like Adobe Flash, Fireworks et al)
It contains a decent library of built-in vector objects and is easy to create your own shapes (which can be added to the library) or import others from the your iPad’s camera roll.
The shape recognition tool is particularly clever and the app does an excellent job of working out what you have tried to draw and then improving it!
There is also a neat Tips & Tricks feature built into the app
The app provides some beautifully presented how-to-guides (created with the app itself) and includes some sample documents which you can fiddle about with to see how they were made. In truth, the app is very easy to learn and most features are easily accessible.
There are a wide range of sharing options (via mail, Dropbox, iTunes etc) and the ability to share an editable Grafio document is particularly useful – it would be straightforward to create a template or outline of a document and share it with students.
Grafio isn’t the cheapest app out there – £5.99 – but you get what you pay for, which in this case is a phone/tablet app with the featureset of a proper graphics package. I would urge you to try the free version first. It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes playing with it to convince you that it is worth paying for the full version.
If you would like to see the app in action, the publishers have helpfully provided some video tutorials on their YouTube channel and you can check them out here. Below is an example of my first attempt at an infographic in Grafio – please don’t judge the quality of the app based on my limitations as a designer! For me, Grafio ranks alongside Phoster as my favourite for creating classroom displays or posters and would also be perfect for student use.
Easel.ly
Easel.ly is a web app, currently in beta, that also does a great job of simplifying the process of creating infographics. I used this successfully with Year 7 as a part of a scheme of work and was very pleased with the results. (I actually think infographics make a great KS3 ICT project – there are all sorts of elements in there, such as the use of data, the importance of good research, graphics design…)
[Disclaimer: At the time of writing easel.ly is FREE but it IS in beta.. so it could easily become a paid service or disappear altogether. Do bear this in mind when deciding whether you would want to use it in the classroom]
You do need to sign up to (either with Facebook or via an email address) to use easel.ly – our school has full Google Apps for Education integration so we had a secure managed email address for each student to use.
As a web app, easel.ly does not boast the full range of features that Grafio can offer – but it is certainly good enough to produce an effective infographic. If you’d like to see an example, you can download an easel.ly infographic I created to show the 4B’s (again applying my disclaimer regarding my own skills!)
Below is a screencast I created showing how to use easel.ly which gives a pretty good idea of the features it has.
Some of the nice features of this app include..
- You can upload your own images – this is a nice touch, though the feature occassionally didn’t work when my students tried it
- There are a nice range of custom templates provided or there is the choice to use a blank canvas
- There is a surprisingly good range of vector images included in the image library
- At the current time there seem to be no limiations on use, other than the fact that only one infographic can be saved/edited at one time
- It is very easy to use
Grafio Reader
Alternatives
Grafio Reader For Mac
I am very happy with both these tools at present but am looking to see if there better ones available.
- Piktochart is a nice alternative to easel.ly (though the free version does seem to have a few limitations) A new version has just been released so I am going to revisit Piktochart.
- Lucidchart (another web tool) can be used for infographics. I’m looking very closely at this for next year since it has Google Drive integration baked in – which takes it to another level as far as I’m concerned.
- Inkscape is an open source vector graphics package which looks to have potential as an infographics tool – and has the obvious bonus of being totally free. T
I would be interested to know what you think of these applications – and indeed, which other mobile apps, web apps or programs you are using to create infographics yourself, or with your students.