Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey flash design of a globe with a botanical sprig border and script lettering reading Be the change you hope to see in the world.
Globe with botanical lettering design
Black line drawing of a cartoon captain in a rowing boat on waves, with lettering around a circular rope border, shown as a tattoo design.
Cartoon captain rowing a boat with lettering
Flash design of a cross made of five skulls wearing cartoon-style hairstyles and glasses, with banners reading Ghosts N Crooks and Appetite for Mystery, in a traditional style.
Skull cross with banners and cartoon-gang hair
Flash design of a skull made from a pizza slice with dripping cheese, pepperoni eyes and a banner reading Small Steps, in a traditional style.
Pizza skull with Small Steps banner
Hand-drawn flash design of arrows radiating from the words follow your arrow, with feathers and a lotus flower, in fine line and blue, teal and pink colouring.
Radiating arrows and feathers flash design
Black and white flash sheet of numbered semicolon designs with the words Your story isn't over yet in varied lettering styles.
Semicolon lettering flash sheet
Black and white lettering design of a crescent moon with a seated silhouette figure, the script words set within the moon's black shape.
Crescent moon with seated figure and script
Black and grey flash design of dandelion seeds drifting up from an ornate silhouette with butterflies and flowing script lettering, on a white background.
Dandelion seeds and script design
Black line drawing of a circle with an inner circle, a solid dot, arcs and the lettering 'You will not break me' beneath, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Circle emblem with 'You will not break me'
Traditional flash sheet showing a pin-up figure in black stockings with a Bring On The Crazy banner, surrounded by pink hearts, a teal flower and a Baby banner.
Pin-up flash sheet with hearts and banners
Black cursive script tattoo lettering design on a white background, reading 'Lose your mind.' above 'Find your soul.'
Two-line cursive script quote design
Traditional style flash design of a white teacup with a skull on its side, steam rising, green leaves, red roses and two banners reading Death Before Decaf.
Death Before Decaf teacup flash
Hand-lettered grey script reading His beloved on a plain white background, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo.
His beloved hand-lettered script
Black and grey line drawing flash of a pin-up woman with pigtails, sunglasses and a cigarette, with lettering across her chest.
Pin-up with lettering across the chest
Black and grey flash design of the words HOLY SHIT set in a circle, with bold interlocking letters and a halftone texture.
Circular lettering reading HOLY SHIT
Black and white flash design of open lips with a dagger piercing through them, dripping drops, and the words NOT JUST TALK arched above.
Mouth and dagger flash with NOT JUST TALK lettering
Black and grey flash design of a crescent moon filled with line-drawn flowers and dotwork shading, with a constellation of stars and handwritten script beside it.
Floral crescent moon with stars and script
Black linework flash sheet with the lettering STONED BROKE AND SINGLE, crossed joints, a UFO beaming cannabis, a yin-yang of cannabis leaves and two cartoon characters, with no body placement shown.
Stoned broke and single flash sheet
Two black and white line drawings on tracing paper: a bald man with glasses above a Basic Chemistry banner and lily, and a bearded man beside an arrow-pierced rose with a Cherokee Rose banner.
Two portrait flash designs with rose and banners
Traditional-style flash design of a fist gripping a knife with red blood drips and a banner reading KILL 'EM ALL, shown on paper with no body placement.
Fist holding a bloodied knife
Black line drawing of the words Country Girl in flowing script, with a horse head outline above the letters and a heart shape below, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Country Girl script with horse head and heart
Black and white flash design of a sword running through the words Be Brave Not Safe in decorative lettering with swirling flourishes.
Be Brave Not Safe lettering with sword
Black ink flash drawing of a bird in flight carrying a sprig, with a landscape inside its body and flowers around it, in a botanical neo-traditional style.
Bird in flight with flowers and lettering
Hand-drawn black pen sketch of a dreamcatcher with a flower mandala, beaded strings and four feathers, labelled Dream Catcher, on a teal background.
Dreamcatcher drawing with four feathers
Neo-traditional style flash design of a red-haired archer with a bow, arrows, white blossoms and a banner reading Fate Loves the Fearless.
Red-haired archer with banner design
Traditional-style flash design of a couple kissing in front of a red sun, with a banner reading IN LOVE WITH A SCOUNDREL and sparkling stars around them.
Couple kissing beside a banner reading In Love With a
Black line drawing of a coffee mug with a banner reading DEATH above and a banner reading BEFORE DECAF below, in a traditional flash style.
Coffee mug with Death before decaf banners
Black linework flash design of a dog wearing goggles above a banner reading Wanderer's Best Friend, with diamond sparkles and rosettes.
Goggled dog with Wanderer's Best Friend banner
Black and grey flash sheet of six vintage men's hairstyle portraits, labelled The Valentino, The Executive, City Slick, Service Man, The Playboy and Aristocrat.
Vintage men's hairstyle flash sheet
Hand-drawn ornate letterform in red fineliner with scrolls, filigree and hatched shading, a design suited to lettering-style tattoos.
Ornate red ink lettering sketch
Black and grey hand-drawn design of a stack of books with the words I might read until I feel better in lettering across the spines.
Stack of books with a reading quote
Black and grey drawing of a heart breaking into fragments, with the words When it's over, I'll count back from ten, and you can listen to glass hearts shattering around it.
Shattering black heart with lyric text
Traditional style flash sheet of video game themed designs including a chainsaw gun, Xbox 360 console, Kinect sensor, controller with a PLAY HARD banner, burger and fries, and a drink cup.
Video game flash sheet with gun, console and burger
White lettering on a black background forming a skull outline, with the words Beautiful Disaster, Perfectly Imperfect, Love Hate, Live Fast Die Pretty and Sinner Saint.
Skull made of lettering
Tattoo flash design of a cartoon woman with a pink bubblegum bubble and a baseball bat, with lettering reading A fun filled lollipop triple dipped in, on a watercolour splatter background.
Lollipop lettering with a bat-wielding woman
Black and grey realism style flash design of a skull wearing a feather headdress, with a rope, banner and arrow below, not shown on skin.
Skull in feather headdress with banner
Black line drawing of bubbly script lettering reading Filthy Douche, surrounded by suds and bubbles, as a tattoo flash design.
Bubble lettering reading Filthy Douche
Black line-drawn tattoo flash sheet with food, objects and lettering motifs, including a steak, pizza slice, pie, revolver and the word MEAT, on a pale grey background.
Tattoo flash sheet of food and text motifs
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Never give up in ornate script with flourishes, sketched in pencil on paper beside a pencil.
Never give up lettering design
Traditional style flash drawing of a hot air balloon with a red sun, flowers and an anchor, with the words Enjoy the Ride on a banner.
Hot air balloon with banner and flowers
Black line flash design of two fists with HAND MADE across the knuckles, beside a spool of thread, scissors, a needle and yarn.
Hand made fists with sewing tools
Purple pencil flash drawing of a planchette-style design with a shaded eye, a smiling sun, a crescent moon and the words SPEAK TO ME NO MORE, in a neo-traditional style.
Planchette design with eye, sun and moon
Pen-drawn ornate lettering design on paper with a large decorative initial, swirling flourishes and a cursive script word, shown beside a black fineliner pen.
Ornate flourished lettering design
White chalk-style kanji character above the lowercase word pain on a black background, drawn as a possible tattoo design.
Chalk kanji with the word pain
Pencil drawing of a crescent moon, a hand holding a wand and two ribbon banners with script lettering, shaded in yellow and black linework.
In the Name of the Moon banner design
Black and white pen drawing of a traditional-style design with stacked ribbon banners reading Ain't no woman like the one I got, an arrow and a heart, with no body placement shown.
Stacked ribbon banners with lettering and heart
Pencil drawing of a Cheshire Cat style grin and whiskered face with blue-green eyes, above the words we're all mad here, with no body placement shown.
Cheshire Cat grin with blue-green eyes
Traditional-style flash drawing of a ship in a heart framed by roses, with the words Beyond the Sea in black outline lettering.
Ship in a heart with roses flash design