Case study — 16

Fat Finger Font

Custom display typeface

A chunky, hand-drawn graffiti display face with a full character set.

Role
Designer & illustrator
Tools
Procreate, Illustrator
Services
Type & lettering
Fat Finger Font graffiti lettering in orange and red gradient over an illustrated alley
01

The work

A second graffiti typeface, heavier and rounder than Throwie, drawn by hand and built into a full alphabet for headlines, merch and names.

02

What I made

A full hand-drawn alphabet in one consistent graffiti style, plus a title piece to show it off. The "Fat Finger" headline is filled with an orange-to-red gradient, outlined in heavy black, with drips, highlights, a halo and a crown. The full character set sits underneath in outline so you can see the shapes clean.

The animation on this page shows how it came together: one letter drawn at a time until the whole alphabet is on the page.

03

Design decisions

Where Throwie is a quick throw-up hand, Fat Finger is all weight. The letters are wide, soft and puffy, like they were pressed out with a thumb. That bulk is the point. It reads from far away, it holds up when you shrink it for a sticker, and it fills a print area on a shirt without needing extra decoration.

Consistency is the hard part with a font like this. Every bowl, curve and terminal has to feel like it came from the same hand, or the word falls apart when you put the letters together. I kept the stroke weight, the roundness and the little shine marks the same across the set so any name or word looks like one piece.

The colored title shows the other trick: the outline alphabet is a base. Add a fill, a second outline, drips and a shadow, and the same letters become a finished piece.

04

How it's used

Headlines, merch and names. It's built for tees, stickers, cover art and social graphics where a word needs to hit hard. If you want your name or brand drawn in a style like this, that's my custom lettering work. If you want to try it yourself, I broke the process down in how to make a graffiti font.

Animated sketch of chunky Fat Finger Font letters being drawn one by one
Fat Finger Font full alphabet in rounded outline letters below an orange headline on teal

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