Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black line flash sheet of Harry Potter themed tattoo designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and quoted lettering.
Harry Potter themed tattoo design sheet
Black flash design of four animal paw prints above the script words Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs on a white background.
Four paw prints with script names
Red and cream woodcut-style drawing of a top hat with the words WE ARE ALL MAD HERE lettered across its crown, with radiating lines either side.
We are all mad here top hat
Black linework lettering design on a white background reading And so the adventure begins, with flourished capitals and underlines.
And so the adventure begins lettering
Hand-lettered black text reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with a flock of black bats, on a yellow background; a lettering design that could be used as a tattoo.
Lettering design with bats on yellow
Cross stitch of a red heart with a white banner reading MOM and a small pink rose, in a traditional tattoo style on dark navy fabric.
Cross stitch heart with MOM banner
Black line flash sheet of twelve crescent moon designs, each labelled with a month and a moon name and filled with a geometric symbol.
Twelve monthly moon flash designs
Black line drawing of a heart outline containing blackletter-style lettering that reads Family, with a large decorative initial F, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Family lettering in a heart outline
Coloured flash illustration of a cartoon woman with brown curls and a beast emblem tattoo on her shoulder, framed by roses and a banner reading 'Til the last petal falls.
Cartoon woman with roses and banner flash
Pencil sketch flash design in neo-traditional style showing a cat with pearls, roses, a fan, a ribbon banner reading Must Love Cats and two stylised women, with no placement shown.
Cat, roses and Must Love Cats banner design
Black and grey pencil flash design on lined paper showing a rabbit-masked figure with ribs, a jet, a heart, a book, a knife and speech bubbles.
Rabbit-masked figure design sketch
Two versions of a black and purple lettering design with a cross arc, a heart and the words God, hearts made us friends and sisters, shown with no body placement.
Lettering design reading God and sisters
Hand-drawn black ink lettering sheet of the numbers 0 to 9, an exclamation mark and an ampersand, in a decorative lettering style suitable as tattoo flash.
Hand-drawn numerals and symbols sheet
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a woman's head in profile with three ribbon banners reading DARLING, YOU'LL BE and OKAY, drawn on a notebook page.
Ribbon banners reading Darling, You'll Be Okay
Fine line script lettering design reading ..and in time, this too shall pass. in black ink on a plain white background.
Script quote lettering design
Flash design of a hand making a V sign, filled with a galaxy pattern, with the word SHAMBLES across the palm and a black cross motif, on a white background.
Galaxy hand with Shambles lettering
Black Arabic calligraphy lettering design on a white background, drawn as a flowing script with a dot and a small diamond mark, shown without any body placement.
Arabic calligraphy lettering design
Pen sketch of the words Who I am today is worse than other times in mixed lettering styles, with no body part visible.
Hand-drawn lettering sketch of a quote
Black line drawing of the word IDGAF in decorative lettering, with striped and swirled letter details and floral doodles, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
IDGAF lettering with doodle florals
Illustrated flash design of a red-haired mermaid with a teal tail, a small anchor above, a laurel wreath and a starfish, with a lettered banner below.
Red-haired mermaid with anchor and banner
Black and grey flash design of a rib cage, rose, dagger, skull and butterfly with banners reading Can we create something beautiful and destroy it, in traditional style with dotwork shading.
Rib cage, skull and butterfly with banner text
Black line drawing flash of a small bird perched on a branch in front of a circle, with a banner reading OH, HELLO across its chest.
Bird with banner reading Oh, Hello
Coloured flash design of a sugar skull woman with a sundae, cupcake and ice cream cone in her hair, on a neo-traditional banner reading Sugar Skull.
Sugar skull with ice cream sundae
Hand-drawn black ink flash sheet of thirteen numbered traditional-style designs, including a crescent moon, pipe, hourglass, flower, moth, flying saucer, jellyfish and the word thirteen in script.
Numbered black ink flash sheet of thirteen designs
Two black script lettering designs on a white background, one in flowing copperplate style and one in a looser handwritten style, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Two lettering designs in black script
Traditional flash design of a howling wolf beneath a teal crescent moon, with the banners Beware the Moon and leaves around it.
Howling wolf and crescent moon design
Coloured flash design of a sword, pipe, staff and cloak among leaves, with a yellow banner reading Home is behind the world ahead, in a neo-traditional lettering style.
Banner lettering with sword and pipe design
Traditional style flash sheet showing a retro television, a cassette with a flower and banner, a dark hand with a banner, and two round badges.
Traditional flash of TV, cassette, hand and banners
Traditional style flash drawing of a red and white lighthouse inside a bottle labelled On the Rocks, with an anchor on the neck, waves and rocks below.
Lighthouse in a bottle flash design
Colourful neo-traditional style tattoo design of a blue unicorn playing a red guitar with skeletal hands, with a green METAL banner, on a black background.
Metal unicorn guitarist with banner
Traditional style flash design of a man in a suit beside a vintage microphone, with a red rose, a flowering sprig and a banner reading Long Live The King, shown as a framed print.
Crooner portrait with microphone and roses
Traditional-style flash design of a long-haired woman with hummingbirds, autumn leaves and sunflowers, framed by a rope border with a banner reading CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH.
Illustrated woman with hummingbirds and banner
Coloured pencil drawing of a clenched fist with red nails and a lettering design reading 'be kind to yourself' with a small heart on the wrist, in a lettering style.
Fist with 'be kind to yourself' wrist design
Black line art flash design of an eye with a heart-shaped pupil, a ribbon banner, roses and foliage, with mirrored lettering above, in a blackwork style.
Eye and heart design with roses and ribbon
Black and white lettering design in the shape of a rabbit standing upright, with the words I must become the lion hearted girl set in hand-drawn script.
Rabbit silhouette filled with lettering
Traditional style flash drawing of a straight razor with a wood grain handle, a brass FTW plate and red accents on a tan background.
Straight razor flash design
Framed traditional-style flash design of two blue swallows, red roses and striped banners with red lettering, displayed on a table.
Traditional swallows and roses flash in a frame
Black ink drawing of a planchette design with a central eye, YES, NO and GOODBYE lettering and dotwork shading on a white sheet.
Planchette with eye and YES NO GOODBYE lettering
Black and grey traditional flash design of a heart holding a hand clasping a cat paw, with a crescent moon, stars, a flower and the words Boys Whatever Cats Forever.
Heart with clasped hand and cat paw
Drawn tattoo design of a shaded rose beside ornate script reading love me, with a line of serif text reading That's all I ask of you, on a white background.
Love me script with shaded rose design
Traditional style flash design of a cartoon boy in a bow tie inside a scalloped heart framed by roses, with the words I choo choo choose you on banners.
I choo choo choose you heart flash
Flash sheet of three botanical designs: a coloured rose bouquet, a navy wreath with Stop and Smell the Roses lettering, and a floral heart with Joie de Vivre script.
Floral bouquet, rose wreath lettering and floral heart
Flash sheet of six black line infinity symbol designs, several with lettering such as faith, Strength, LOVE and HOPE, drawn on a white background.
Infinity symbol tattoo flash designs
Black and grey flash design of a banner reading Life's A Gamble above playing cards, dice, a classic car and flames.
Life's a Gamble with cards, dice and car
Black hand-lettered script reading Be you, bravely, set inside a looping wreath of leafy sprigs on a plain light background, shown as a tattoo design.
Be you, bravely lettering in a leafy wreath
Black ink flash design of a palm tree with the words Less Monday and More summer set in brush script either side of the trunk.
Palm tree with "Less Monday, more summer" lettering
Black and grey ink flash design of a scorpion inside a flask, framed by blackberry leaves and mushrooms, with the word Scorpio beneath, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Scorpion in a flask with botanical leaves
Watercolour-style drawing of the cartoon character Stitch sitting beside the word OHANA in thin handwritten lettering on a cream background.
Stitch sitting beside the word Ohana