thumb|250px|Graffiti 2 Alphabet. The two-stroke characters, as well as Q, differ from the [[Graffiti (Palm OS)|original Graffiti.]]
"Graffiti 2 Powered by Jot" Graffiti 2 made its debut in Palm OS 4.1.2 for Motorola DragonBall-based handhelds and in Palm OS Garnet 5.2 for ARM-based ones.
History
The primary reason for the change was that in April 1997 Xerox had sued PalmSource, Inc. over its use of Graffiti. The change, on the other hand, alienated many long-time Palm users who were already happy with the previous version of Graffiti which they claimed was much easier to use (though perhaps not to learn).
A prominent issue cited by detractors is the number of stylus strokes required to draw a character. The original Graffiti recognition software required only a single stylus stroke for each alphanumeric character. Graffiti 2, however, required two strokes to draw some commonly used characters. This was perceived as extra work because the default settings for "i" and "t", the fifth and second most frequently-used letters in English, required two strokes. Preferences settings allowed switching variants for letters P, T, Y and $, but none of them could be switched back to single stroke.