Four black script lettering designs of the word Wanderlust on a white background, with a small definition line beneath, shown as a lettering flash sheet with no body placement.

Wanderlust lettering in script styles

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows the word Wanderlust written four times in different script and lettering styles, stacked vertically on a white background. The top versions use flowing, slanted monoline strokes with a looped and extended tail, while lower versions use bolder, more upright or elegant forms. A small line of text beneath reads a great desire to travel and rove about, and all lettering is in solid black ink.

Lettering Wanderlust Script Lettering Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom, The hoarding on Cable Street still says what it said when you left, only someone has painted a tram advert over the bottom half. I stood under the lamp last night until the last 38 bell went, copying the lettering into my notebook because Mr Okafor says you can't learn a hand by remembering it. Four ways to write one word, Tom. The first leans like it's been caught in a gust, its tail running off past the final letter as if it hasn't finished leaving. The second loops and swells. The third stands up straight in heavy strokes, like a man in his good coat at a funeral.

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I'd meant to tell you I'm going. Mr Okafor has a cousin in Rotterdam who needs a girl who can letter gold leaf on barge windows, and the fare is paid. I practised the word on the back of my hand all the way home from the depot, the way you used to chalk your name on the pavement outside Nan's. Every version wanted to keep going past its ending, which is probably the trouble with the word itself.

Then I saw the fourth version, the plain one with no flourish at all, and the small line beneath it that someone had set in ordinary type. A great desire to travel and rove about. I read it three times standing in the wet. It's the only line on the whole board that isn't in script, and it's the only one that tells you what the word is for.

I've written to the cousin to say I'll come in spring. Keep my chisel nibs in the drawer. I'm signing this the way Okafor taught me, with the last stroke left open.