Black ink flowing script capital letters A to Z arranged in rows on a cream background, a lettering flash design with no body placement shown.

Uppercase flowing script alphabet flash

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A sheet of uppercase script letters from A to Z, drawn in bold black ink with long swashed strokes and tapered line weight. The letters are arranged in staggered rows on a plain cream background, with no body or skin visible. It reads as a lettering reference sheet rather than a finished tattoo photograph.

Lettering Alphabet Script Swash Letter

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Mags, I have finished the alphabet for Tollen's new chandlery, all twenty-six capitals, and Mr Pryce came down from the loft to inspect them with his spectacles pushed up in his hair. He stood a long while over the W. Then he asked who taught me to make a swash that doubles back on itself like a gull turning into the wind, and I said nobody, I only copied the way the sea lifts the nets off the quay. He grunted, which from Pryce is a sonnet.

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The trouble is the Q. I have drawn its tail three times now and each time it wants to run off the edge of the board and out past the breakwater. The R fared better. I gave it a little loop at the foot like a rope made fast, so it holds its ground while the others flourish. Pryce said that was the only letter that looked like it meant to stay put, and I have decided to take that as praise.

The Y and the Z are at the bottom of the board, sitting low and tired after all that showing off above them. I am rather fond of them for it. Tell your father the sign goes up Monday if the wind drops. If it does not, the letters will have to wait like everyone else in this town, and I will sit on the step with my ink and watch the boats come in one at a time, reading their names off the hulls.