White fine line script reading Remember why you started on a plain black background, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.

Remember why you started script lettering

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A handwritten style script phrase, Remember why you started, is set across two lines in white ink on a plain black background. The linework is thin and even, with flowing loops on the capital R and the descenders of the y and the d. The composition is centred and simple, with no skin, body part or additional decoration visible.

Lettering Fine line Script Lettering Quote Handwriting

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain had got into the cardboard boxes again, so the pencils came out of the tin soft at the ends. I was crouched under the awning of the bread stall at Shelford Market, trying to dry a sheaf of sign-writer's brushes on my jumper, when I found the card. It was wedged under the lid, a strip of cream board no bigger than a bus ticket, and the hand on it was my dad's: that loose, looping script he used on shop fascias until his wrists gave out.

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Remember why you started, it said. Nothing else. No date, no name, no price, which was how I knew it was meant for someone, not for a customer.

I should say the stall had been losing money since March. The chalkboards were cracked, the hot-water urn kept tripping the fuse, and every Saturday a man in a waxed coat asked whether we did proper signwriting or just vinyl now. I had been telling myself the card was a joke. Dad made jokes like that, tucking lines into the back of the van so that Mum would find them while she was hunting for the jump leads.

But the rain kept coming and the market emptied, and I stood there with the card going limp in my fingers until I stopped thinking about the stall and started thinking about the first board he ever painted for me, a crooked sign that said MARGOT'S in gold leaf, which I'd insisted on hanging over my bedroom door. I took the card home. It is pinned above my drawing table now, under the lamp, where the gold has mostly worn off the lettering and I can still read it from the chair.