Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black line design of the word Love arranged inside a heart outline, with a small heart and a Song of Solomon 8:7 quotation in mixed lettering styles.
Heart-shaped lettering reading Love
Flash sheet of tattoo designs photographed on a gift box, including a blue owl, a koi fish, a realistic eye, three BELIEVE lettering designs and a feathered headdress, all shown without a body
Traditional flash sheet with owl, eye and lettering
Black and grey flash design of a ribcage, heart, spine and pelvis framed by serrated leaves, with no body placement shown.
Anatomical ribcage and pelvis with leaves, Cancer
Black and grey tattoo flash designs printed on a phone case, including a large butterfly, a compass, chevrons, a rose and a microphone.
Tattoo flash sheet printed on a phone case
Flash design of a blue-haired caterpillar in a red scarf above a peach banner reading 'ello!, drawn with bold outlines.
Caterpillar in a red scarf with banner
Black handwritten script reading be brave, framed by green leaves and small orange, yellow and pink flowers, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Be brave script with flower wreath
Hand-drawn tattoo design in black ink and red pencil showing flying silhouettes, the words Never grow up and a red feather, sketched in a spiral notebook.
Never grow up silhouettes with red feather
Flash sheet of hand-drawn designs with a burger, pizza slice, crushed can, pentagram, gemstone and pink Japanese characters, with a pink lettering banner at the top.
Flash sheet with burger, pizza and crushed can
Purple line drawing of a leaping lion pierced by two arrows, with a banner reading BE NOT AFRAID across its body, in a traditional tattoo flash style.
Leaping lion with arrows and banner
Pencil drawing of a compass with a banner reading Before you ask which way to go, remember where you've been, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Compass with quote banners
Traditional style flash design of a grey dagger wrapped in yellow ribbon banners with lettering, a red cross detail and a red drop of blood, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Dagger and cross with lettered banners
Hand-drawn black ink lettering reading Ph 1:6 with a semicolon-like mark and a cross, circled on lined notebook paper, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Hand-drawn Ph 1:6 lettering with a cross
Black tribal-style line drawing of a phoenix with spread wings and a long curling tail, above the script words Still I rise, on a white background.
Phoenix with Still I rise script
Hand-drawn grey lettering design reading IF NOT NOW WHEN, with the words stacked and shaded in pencil on paper.
If not now when lettering design
Flash-style drawing of a large key wrapped in two banners reading Courage is the Key, with a heart-shaped lock, a compass and bubbles, in traditional-style colour outlines.
Key with Courage is the Key banners
Traditional flash sheet of six Star Wars designs: Chewbacca, C-3PO with a STAY COOL banner, Darth Vader, Yoda, an AT-AT walker and R2-D2, with roses and leaves.
Star Wars characters traditional flash sheet
Traditional style flash design of a pin-up woman in a blue top and brown shorts riding a large black moustache, with the words Best Ride and Giddy Up, and no body placement shown.
Pin-up riding a giant moustache
Flash design of a walking skeleton in a wide-brimmed hat and pipe, carrying a crescent moon bindle, with the words SEE YOU OUT THERE, in tan ink on a dark navy background.
Walking skeleton with bindle and pipe
Sketchbook page of hand-drawn tattoo flash in red and blue pencil, including a spider, umbrella, eye, apple, dagger and chainsaw, with no body placement shown.
Sketchbook page of spider, umbrella and chainsaw flash
Black line drawing of a cartoon character with spiky hair and antennae, raising two middle fingers, above a traditional banner reading Peace Among Worlds.
Cartoon character with Peace Among Worlds banner
Black line drawing of a dandelion whose seeds become musical notes and a treble clef, with the script words don't let them say you ain't beautiful, shown as a tattoo design and not on skin.
Dandelion turning into music notes with script
Black script lettering design reading Dolci sogni on a white background, a lettering-style tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Dolci sogni script lettering design
Flourished script lettering reading All that glisters is not gold, with a smaller line beneath, shown as a black and grey design with no body placement.
All that glisters is not gold lettering
Black ink line drawing of a pizza slice with dripping cheese, a striped handled tool and two banners reading Love dies and Pizza is forever, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Pizza slice with banners reading Love dies and Pizza is
Black brush-script lettering reading Carpe Diem on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Carpe Diem brush lettering
Black ink flash sheet of hand-drawn lettering, hearts, roses and plasters on a notebook page, pinned to a string against a pink background.
Hand-drawn lettering flash sheet on notebook paper
Traditional style flash design of a cartoon fox in a green hat inside a yellow oval, with a red poppy and green leaves below, shown on a framed poster mockup.
Cartoon fox in green hat flash design
Black linework flash drawing of a lace-edged heart with two script lettering banners and rays, drawn on tracing paper, suited to a neo-traditional tattoo.
Heart and script banners flash design
Green shaded four-leaf clover with a curling stem above the Irish phrase go deo i mo chroí, drawn as a flash design with no body placement shown.
Four-leaf clover with Irish lettering
Black handwritten lettering design of the word relax, with a long vertical stroke running through the l, on a plain white background.
Relax lettering design
Black linework drawing of a dreamcatcher with three hanging feathers and a quote lettered around the hoop, shown as a flash design.
Dreamcatcher with feathers and quote
Traditional style black and grey flash design of a crescent moon with a crying face beside a woman with a rose in her hair, with the words I hope you're miserable, shown on a grey background.
Crescent moon and woman with rose flash
Black and grey traditional tattoo designs printed on a white sweatshirt, including swallows over a clasped-hands heart, a rose with a banner, a stag and an anchor.
Tattoo designs printed on a white sweatshirt
Pink illustrated flash-style design of a blink-182 CD case with a crossed-out smiley face, set inside a scalloped heart with the words Blink-182 and And Chill.
Blink-182 CD in a scalloped heart
Purple and black hand-lettered Psalm 91:4 design with a feather illustration, lettering style, no body placement shown.
Psalm 91:4 lettering with a feather
Black and white flash design of a solid spiky starburst with the word YAY in white hand-drawn capitals on a plain white background.
Starburst with YAY lettering
Traditional style flash design of three Poké Balls with fire, water and leaf elements and ribbon banners reading Life's Hardest Choice, on a black background.
Pokeball trio with fire, water and leaf
Traditional style flash design of a woman with a voluminous dark beehive hairstyle, red roses and a ribbon banner reading LOVE IS A LOSING GAME.
Traditional portrait with roses and banner
Flash design of a dark-haired cartoon princess with a red bow, framed by a rope oval, roses and banners reading waiting for love's true kiss, in traditional colour.
Dark-haired princess pin-up with true kiss banner
Black line drawing flash of a cartoon sailor in a rowboat inside a circle, with the words ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT and THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME, shown without a placement on the body.
Sailor in a rowboat flash design
Black and white silhouette stencils on card, including a Dalek, several profile heads, a sonic screwdriver, a bow tie and a police box with the word GERONIMO, laid out on a wooden table.
Silhouette stencil sheets on a wooden table
Coloured flash drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with two roses, a gold star, a heart-shaped compact, a heart bell and the words Fighting Evil on banners.
Fighting Evil flash with roses, star and heart charms
Black line drawing of a heart outline with flowing script lettering running along its edges, shown in three variants on a white background.
Heart outline with script lettering
Flash design of three purple and green thistles tied with a purple and cream ribbon, above a cream banner reading Sassy Lassie, on a black background.
Three thistles with ribbon and banner
Black flash design of two skulls with cross and heart eyes above a red dripping heart crossed by a red line, with the words RAGE and LOVE, shown without a body placement.
Twin skulls and dripping heart with RAGE LOVE text
Pencil and stippled drawing of a moth with a crescent moon, the words Always Find The Light and geometric construction lines, shown as an unplaced tattoo design.
Moth and crescent moon design with lettering
Traditional style flash design of two matching banners reading society, with a vintage bus, a compass, red roses and a bare tree, in colour.
Society banners with bus, compass and roses
Black linework and dotwork flash design of an anatomical heart with a chair and hanging bulb inside, lettered YOU LIVE THERE below.
Anatomical heart with a chair inside