While too simple to really count as a tag or handstyle the graffiti / Hip-Hop influence on the letter style is unmistakable.
The letterforms in the Fat Tip font only subtly emulate a tag style but the font is meant to emulate the look of letters written with spray paint using a Fat Tip. Industrious graffiti artists found the source of these actuators and began to buy them in bulk for use with spray paint. The first of these 'tips' or 'caps' were found & repurposed from other household products like 'Spray N Wash', oven cleaners & shoe polish. A type of actuator known as the 'New York Fat' has remained he most popular Fatcap since the early days of graffiti but there are many, many varieties of 'Fat Tips'. A 'Fat Tip', also, often called a 'Fat Cap' is any spray can cap (actuator) that creates a wide, circular spray pattern. The Fat Tip font was created in mid 1996 by Turntable Media.
If the main critera in defining a Graffiti genre within type is intention then the first typeface in this genre has to be 'Fat Tip'. Fat Tip - Turntable Media (1996) font specimen.
