Lettering tattoo ideas

3,720 photos and flash · 59% Lettering, 22% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Black and grey realism drawing of a raven perched on a skull, with a scroll banner reading EXPENDABLE beneath it.
Raven perched on skull with banner
Gold script lettering reading don't fear with a full stop, drawn in fine linework on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Don't fear script lettering design
Black line drawing of a hand-drawn sun with rays, with the words LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO ARE YOU lettered inside the circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Line drawn sun with lettered quote
Black line drawing of a cross joined to a heartbeat line that forms a heart, with the words FAITH, HOPE and LOVE beneath, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Cross, heartbeat and heart design
Ink flash sheet with two arm wrestling figures, an anvil, a sketch of question marks and the words Forgot to be human, with splatter marks across the paper.
Arm wrestling figures and anvil flash sheet
Black and grey tattoo design of an infinity symbol with a heart on one loop and script lettering running along the strokes.
Infinity heart with script lettering
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing a musical staff ribbon forming a heart, with a treble clef, notes, stars and the words Music is Life.
Music staff heart with treble clef and script
Pink handwritten script reading shine on on a plain white background, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Shine on handwritten script design
Traditional flash design of a fanned hand of playing cards, including the ace of spades, above a scroll banner reading Born to Lose and Live to Win.
Playing cards and Born to Lose banner
Black handwritten script on a white background reading never let your fear decide your fate, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten quote lettering design
Seven numbered lines of the words in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, set in different script and typeface styles, shown as a lettering design sheet with no body placement.
Seven lettering styles for a short quote
Fine line drawing of an outstretched hand with poppy flowers, leaves, a moon and an eye motif, and the words trust the path unseen, in black ink with blue accents.
Hand with poppies and lettering
Black ink script lettering reading Perfectly Imperfect, with a ribbon banner under the word Imperfect, drawn as a lettering design on a white background.
Perfectly Imperfect script lettering design
Blue line drawing of a rayed sun with the words You are my sunshine written in script and capitals inside it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
You are my sunshine lettering in a sun
Black and grey pencil drawing of a pocket watch on a chain with two scroll banners reading time heals and all wounds, a tattoo flash design with no body placement shown.
Pocket watch with chain and banners
Three die-cut flash-style sticker designs on a grey surface: a guitar with flowers and banner text, a red and white aeroplane, and a pen and harpoon above flowers.
Three flash sticker designs: guitar, plane and harpoon
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a hand rising from ripples with a banner reading DON'T LET ME DROWN, in black and grey linework.
Hand rising from water with banner
Gold handwritten script reading 'dont fear.' on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than on skin.
Handwritten 'dont fear.' script design
Black ink tattoo design of an arrow with the words Little Pieces of Hope above a mandala and a fan of feathers, in a blackwork style.
Feathers, mandala and arrow with lettering
Black ink flash design reading One for the road, surrounded by feathers, a kookaburra, a moon, a sun, wattle, a fish, a bottle, an eye and animal skulls, drawn in fine line with stippled shading.
One for the road tattoo flash design
Black and white flash sheet of tattoo designs including a steak, pizza slice, pie, rope, knife, eye and several hand-drawn lettering pieces.
Black and white flash sheet of food and lettering designs
Black and white flash design of a fish caught on a hook above waves, with the words Good Hope in lettering along the bottom.
Fish on a hook with Good Hope lettering
Pencil sketch flash of three bitten circular designs with crossing lines and dots, labelled Fantastic, Allons-y and Geronimo, with no body placement shown.
Three bitten circle sketches with phrases
Black script lettering reading Elle est forte with the reference Proverbs 31:25 beneath, drawn as a lettering design on a white background with no body placement shown.
Elle est forte script lettering design
Pencil sketch of a flaming sun behind a crescent moon, with script lettering across the moon and stars scattered below, drawn as a tattoo design.
Sun and crescent moon with script lyric
Neo-traditional flash design of a winged fairy with a small compass tattoo on her arm, framed by rope and banners reading Those who wander are not always lost.
Winged fairy with wanderer quote flash
Black and white flash drawing of a snarling spotted leopard gripping a knife, with a pistol across the front and Cyrillic lettering above and below.
Snarling leopard with knife and pistol
Pencil-style drawing of a symmetrical ornate heart built from red and black flowing ribbons and curls, with small quote lettering along the outer edges.
Ornate heart with red swirls
Tattoo design of the words Never Lose Your Flames in bold script lettering inside a flame shape, shaded from red at the top to black at the base.
Never Lose Your Flames lettering in a flame
Black line drawing flash design of two roses, a HONOR banner and a blade on cream paper, in a traditional style, with no body placement shown.
Two roses and HONOR banner line drawing
Neo-traditional flash of a blonde cartoon woman with a tattooed arm, two bluebirds, roses and a banner reading Once Upon a Dream.
Blonde princess with roses and banner
Red ink sketch of an hourglass, pocket watch and roses above a banner reading MAKE EVERY MOMENT COUNT, in a traditional tattoo flash style.
Hourglass and pocket watch flash design
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background reading 'the show must go on... All over the place... or something', a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten script quote: the show must go on
Pencil sketch of two crossed arrows with the words BE, AND, STILL and KNOW set around the crossing point, a lettering-led tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Crossed arrows with 'Be still and know' lettering
White cursive lettering reading Stay Strong with a small outlined heart on a black background, a black and grey lettering design.
Stay Strong script lettering with a heart
Black line drawing of two detailed eyes with lashes and brows, with Russian lettering between them, on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design.
Pair of eyes with Russian lettering
Black line drawing of a circular geometric diagram with arcs, dots and a small filled circle, above the words hello, sweetie in a thin script, shown as a tattoo design.
Circular line diagram with "hello, sweetie."
Black ink line drawing of a segmented serpent biting its own tail in a circle, with the lettering Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration set around the edge.
Circular serpent design with quote lettering
Black line drawing of the Aquarius water bearer figure pouring water, with a wave symbol and the word AQUARIUS beneath it, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Aquarius water bearer zodiac design
Neo-traditional flash design of a woman with a hair bun and a frog on her hand, framed by pink lotus flowers and a banner reading Bayou Beauty.
Bayou Beauty portrait with frog and lotus flowers
Black script lettering reading "it is well" with a line over the word "it" on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design.
"it is well" script lettering design
Black line drawing of the words HERE COMES THE SUN in hand-drawn lettering, with SUN inside a circle surrounded by a spiky sunburst outline, on a white background.
Here Comes the Sun lettering in a sun
Traditional style flash design of a purple Hylian shield with a gold triangle emblem, a blue hilted sword, two red roses and a banner reading It's dangerous to go alone, coloured on paper.
Hylian shield, sword and roses flash
Black ink handwritten script reading Wait and hope with a long sweeping underline, drawn on a white card over a dark wooden surface, in a lettering style suited to a tattoo design.
Script lettering reading Wait and hope
Traditional-style flash design of dice, a green bottle and a can in flames above a banner reading Roll the Dice, with no body placement shown.
Roll the dice flash with flames and banner
Traditional style flash design of a grinning skull with flames, crossed pistols, spade symbols and a banner reading Diablo, drawn in black, cream and red.
Skull with flames, pistols and banner
Black linework flash design of a gramophone inside an ornate oval frame, with leaves and a banner reading Music is a place to be, drawn on tracing paper.
Gramophone in an ornate frame with banner
Set of traditional-style tattoo flash designs printed as stickers, showing a teacup, aeroplane, microphone, cigarette hand, globe, ship wheel and carousel horse, all with lettering on banners, on a
Traditional flash designs printed as stickers