Black brush-script lettering of the word love on a plain white background, drawn as a design with no body placement shown.

Hand-lettered word love in black script

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows the word love written in flowing, hand-lettered script with a dry brush texture. The strokes are thick black ink with rough, feathered edges and loops on the l and the o. The plain white background and centred composition leave the lettering as the only subject.

Lettering Love Word Script

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, the fire's only good for one more log, and I'll not waste my breath on the cold. You want the tale of Brother Anselm and the brush he was never let touch? Then listen. The abbey at Hollowmere kept a scriptorium over the river, and in it he copied psalms for thirty winters, every letter square and upright, the way the Rule demanded. Not one loop in forty years of work.

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Then in the hard spring of the flood, a boy came up the causeway with a letter from a widow in Ludlow, her husband drowned at the weir. She had asked the scribes for one word only, written large across the top of the sheet so her boy could find it again when he grew. She paid in eggs and a cheese. The prior gave it to Anselm, because he was the slowest and the least likely to put his own hand in it.

He sat with that sheet for three days. On the third night, with the lamp guttering, he dipped the old sable brush almost dry, the way his master taught him for gilt edges, and let it drag. The ink broke up into grey feathers at the edges. The l climbed like a bird off a wire, and the o curled back on itself as if it were listening. He wrote it once, then again, and he did not wipe the brush.

In the morning the prior found him asleep with his cheek on the desk. The sheet sat on the lectern, one word, black and ragged and loose as a hand waving from a boat. The prior said it was a sin to make a letter untidy. Anselm only said the widow had not asked for tidy. The prior tore the page in two, then read it again, and let the halves be carried down the causeway together.