CS2 Graffiti

Graffiti are spray decals you tag onto map surfaces during a match.

Each item is a sealed can carrying 50 charges; pressing the spray key (T by default) opens the radial picker, and a left click stamps the design on a wall, crate, or floor, burning one charge. Unlike stickers and charms, graffiti are consumable — once you start spraying, the can leaves your tradeable inventory and counts down to zero.

The cheapest is X-Axes (Brick Red) at $0.01; the dearest, Recoil MAC-10 (Jungle Green) at $594.57.

What a sealed graffiti is and how charges work

Buying graffiti gets you a Sealed Graffiti can with 50 charges. While sealed it is fully tradeable and marketable. The moment you equip it and tag a surface, the can converts to a used state, becomes non-tradeable, and decrements until empty, at which point it disappears from your inventory. There is no refill — you re-buy another sealed can. Sprays fade on the map over time and a player can only have a limited number of their own tags live at once, so the practical use is quick tagging of bomb sites, smoke lineups, or trash-talk, not permanent decoration like a weapon skin.

Color variants and the standard palette

A graffiti design is sold per-color, not as one item with a color picker. Valve ships many community and Valve-made designs across a fixed tint set — names like Tracer Yellow, Monster Purple, Bazooka Pink, Cash Green, War Pig Pink, Brick Red, SWAT Blue, Wire Blue, Desert Amber, and Shark White recur throughout the catalog. That means the cheapest way into a design is whichever color the market floods, while a less-printed tint of the exact same art can cost noticeably more. When browsing, treat each color as its own market item with its own price and supply.

Rarity tiers and where graffiti come from

Graffiti follow the standard rarity ladder: Base Grade (white), High Grade (blue), Remarkable (purple), Exotic (pink), and Extraordinary (red). They drop from graffiti-specific containers such as the CS:GO Graffiti Box, Community Graffiti Box, and the Perfect World Graffiti Box, and have also been distributed through operations and as free post-match drops. Tournament team graffiti and charity designs (tied to specific events or causes) form a separate, time-limited supply pocket — once an event ends those stop dropping, which is the main driver behind the rare, expensive listings.

Graffiti vs. stickers and charms

All three are cosmetics, but they behave differently. Stickers apply permanently to a weapon and can be scraped or peeled; charms hang off the weapon model; graffiti never touch your gun at all — they are environmental tags consumed in 50 uses. Because graffiti are spent rather than displayed, the collector market is thin and most prices sit at the floor. The exceptions are scarcity-driven: discontinued or event-locked designs and uncommon color tints are where any meaningful value sits.