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#BusFlow

I really dig tags in this one-line portrait style. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti #OneLiner #OneLineDrawing #BusFlow

Silver paint marker graffiti on a green wall. It is a portrait drawing made in one long and squigly line. The artist's name appears to be "Herbs One", but I'm not sure on that.

Another photo of the one-line graffiti, but from further away so you can see the other graffiti tags near it. One of the tags is a long name written in San Francisco Bus Flow Style (a swirly style of tagging that usually uses one long line and gets bigger as it goes left to right). I think that tag says something like "MackReRoRockSF" in a pink paint. Another tag, made using white spray paint with a fat cap, says something I can't read. But it looks cool.

Car Fart on 22nd street. #SFGraffiti #CarFart #Graffiti #BusFlow

A USPS box that has been tagged by Car Fart. The spray paint in orange and the style is San Francisco Bus Flow.

A tag by Car Fart in orange spray paint on a window at an empty cheesesteak shop.

Race Car rocking the #BusFlow style. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti

A pickup truck that is covered in graffiti. One of the bigger pieces says "Racecar" in a shiny silver spray paint. The tag is written in a "bus flow" style, meaning it's a little loose and sloppy, and mostly written in one line. The truck has been modified by adding wooden walls to the bed, in order to hold more stuff. The other tags on the truck are by different artists, but many are in in a similar bus flow style as Racecar's tag.

A tag in black ink on a white wall. It says "Race Car" in a bus flow style.

Black spray paint on a white wall. Like the other photos in this set, this one is created largely in one long and twisty line. The paint is darker and thinner near the top of the letters, and lighter and bigger near the bottom, due to the way the artist was holding the can. It creates a neat fade effect.

A tag by Racecar and Cones on a wall. It is written in white paint from a pen and both signatures are in a bus flow style.

@docpop One thing that irritates me in #comics is when an artist is trying to portray a gritty, urban environment so they put "graffiti" everywhere - which is often whatever naughty word they can get away with barely more flourish than their own handwriting.

There's so many styles that suggest a time and place, like #BusFlow. And there's the cultural commentary too, that so often goes un-reflected. I get they're under deadline, but just a few source references would go a long way.

Thanks for the feedback, y'all. I'll gladly keep sharing SF #graffiti here and try to refine my tags and things to make it easier to find (or weed out if you aren't into it).
On that note, here's a dope piece I spotted while riding the J line. Peep that San Francisco #BusFlow style.

White graffiti on a dark red wall. The piece says "Drowning In Wet Dreams" in the unique San Francisco "Bus Flow" style. The tag is very drippy too.

As San Francisco #BusFlow evolves, some of its characteristics become exaggerated. The loops in the Rs are getting bigger and the words tend to get wilder as they go. Bus Flow often gets bigger with each new letter, and words tend to droop down along the way. To me, this really evokes the feel of a Muni driver hitting the gas as a tagger was mid-flow. The feeling of hopping on and off of hurried buses is captured into the DNA of the Frisco Flow.

A tagger who wrote "Dnine" in pink spraypaint on a teal wall. The letters are connected, but not really cursive. The word gets bigger as it goes left to right and the tail end of the "e" is really long and exaggerated. It moves up and down as if on a bumpy bus.

A tag that says "Masow" (or maybe something else). The letters appear connected in a oneliner style. The word gets bigger and more exagerated as it goes.

A piece of concrete tagged by "Mackclares" (or maybe something similar). It's a oneliner piece with big loops on the "K" and the "R".

Hey neighbors, have you ever heard of San Francisco Busflow? It's a regional handstyle best recognized by its rounded typography, continuous lines, and loopy letters (especially in the Ks, Ms, and Rs).

Once you start looking, you'll notice that #BusFlow dominates the landscape in #SanFrancisco and the #BayArea. This regional style is even becoming popular around the world #graffiti

a photo of very messy graffiti on a wall. It's hard to read, but it looks like a form of cursive. Each word appears to get bigger as it goes from left to right.

Some public architecture covered with multiple tags from graffiti artists. Different media is used, but the names all have a similar cursive style.

Another wall covered in tags in the San Francisco Bus Flow style. Many of the tags are unreadable, but you can notice certain letters like "R"s that stand out because of the big loops that have been added.

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