Street slaps for set dressing — name-tag stickers with a tag across them, handstyles and throw-ups, stencils,
slogans, cartoon characters, band and crew stickers, parody warnings — and masking patches cut a margin larger
than a real logo, so the camera sees nobody’s trade mark. Dated by material and cut, 1950 to now, laid out on a
sheet with the knife line for a plotter. Every tag, crew, band and firm invented.
Part of Chronotype · Free to use.
Licence for paid productions ·
the research behind it
What the sheet is for
Year & country
The kinds a roll uses — dated
On the sheet — every one invented
Type over a tag, a slogan or a band name; ↻ draws that one again, ⧉ puts
a second on the sheet, ✕ takes it off. The colours, the hand and the shape come from the year and the inks,
so they move when those do. The Checks panel flags a famous writer’s tag or a real brand.
W × H sets one sticker’s cut size by hand, 15–300 mm, over the preset and the Size
slider; clear both boxes (or click preset) to go back.
The faces are embedded in this file and free to use on a production: SIL Open Font License 1.1, and Apache 2.0 for Chewy, Luckiest Guy and Rock Salt (Google Fonts, via Fontsource). The licence texts are in the source folder.
Sparkles, stars, hearts, arrows, crowns, bolts, squiggles — drawn at size in the sticker’s second ink, on slogans, shouts, tags, band stickers and name tags.
Masking patches — a margin larger than the logo
The logos to cover
Measure the logo with a ruler across its widest points. The patch is cut
that size plus the margin on every side; the dashed line on the sheet is the logo, and never prints.
Time on the street — drawn at size
Fading, scratches and grime print with the sticker, so a sheet can go on set
already old. Peeling corners show only in the mock-up.
What the year asks for — and why
The sheet
Print at 100% / actual size on printable vinyl or sticker paper.
The knife is a rose hairline: the Cut-line PDF puts it on its own spot plate named CutContour for a plotter or
a die house. For a desktop print-and-cut machine, import the SVG into its own software and let it add its
registration marks; the sheet margin leaves them room.
Checks — what an audience could catch
Variants — the same sheet, several ways
The same piece, several ways, in one pass. Everything you are not
varying is held still, so the “same” design really is the same design.
Print at 100% / actual size, margins none. Every tag, crew, band,
slogan, character and firm is invented — see the Checks panel for what dates a sticker.