my favorite style of graffiti has always been the roller. the logistical nightmare of having to carry telescoping poles and paint rollers / repelling yourself off the side of a building like that. i also like the way it seems to attract spot gods, specifically. and i like rectilinear forms a lot but my interest is mostly in the fact that the resultant text so obviously speaks to the tool that created it. an example for you, the forever boner. the beury building features pieces by my favorite roller artist(s?) in the whole world: BUSS EARLY - but other rollers represented include SMYLE and ZERO and DOS and KITE, etc.
i was researching the euro interwar fonts because i like lettering which has no curves. and its not that you can't curve with a roller, but it's not easy or common. it suggests you have a bit more TIME to finesse, i think.
look at all the shit you have to carry. and this person is on the ground not halfway down the side of an abandoned bank building vvv
some notable text styles with no curves and sometimes almost no angles (from top to bottom - re: brutaltypes - OLAF, MINICUS, KURYAKIN, WRIGHTEX, KLINKER)
and like this last one, klinker, is stylized, but it's again a constraint of its application, which is tilework:
but it's not hard to imagine writing it with like a big fat C series
there's a synergy here, imo
