SparVar Tuff Colors, Pinkorange, early 1990s: formerly owned by Lady Pink

As the quality of their favorite brands of American spray paint declined and became thinner, graffiti writers tried other brands and developed some European favorites.  Sparvar, the European branch of Krylon, manufactured this can of Tuff Colors Pinkorange.  Although American spray paint companies have publicly denounced graffiti, Sparvar marketed the Tuff Color line toward graffiti writers.  The company even named one of their colors Graffiti Green.  Tuff Color spray paint was thicker and available in richer colors than the regular Sparvar paint, and the usual Sparvar logo was enhanced for this line with colorful paint drips set against a background of black-and-white pinstripes. Street art and graffiti hold cultural significance in the way they help artists express their individuality and critique political, cultural, social, and economic issues, as a subculture with a message.

Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara, b. 1964), is an Ecuadorian-American graffiti and mural artist. Her career focused on using graffiti and murals as acts of rebellion, empowering women and self-expression. Lady Pink’s name was chosen for her aesthetics because the name “Pink” is feminine and she wanted other artists to know that she was a girl. She started calling herself Lady Pink because of her love of historical romances, England, the Victorian period, and the aristocracy. Lady Pink was nicknamed the "first lady of graffiti," because she was one of the first active women in the early 1980s New York City subway graffiti subculture.