Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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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
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
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
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
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
Black and grey line drawing of a ribcage with roses and leaves beneath a sunburst, with the word Virgo and a short quote, shown as a tattoo design.
Ribcage and roses with Virgo lettering
Black and grey drawing of an ornate lettering tattoo design surrounded by leaves, flowers and ribbons, with no body placement shown.
Ornate botanical lettering design
Black line drawing of a bold, graffiti-style word with a rising sun, clouds, flowers, feathers and a bird, designed as a lettering piece for a tattoo.
Bubble lettering with sun, clouds and flowers
Black script lettering reading Wild Child on a white background, with a leafy sprig beneath the words, in a design suited to a tattoo.
Wild Child script lettering with leafy sprig
Black ink flash design of the words love her but leave her wild in script lettering inside a circular wreath of hatched leaves, with no body placement shown.
Love her but leave her wild lettering in a leaf wreath
Gold line drawing of a sugar skull bride with heart-shaped eyes, a crown of roses and flowers, and the word BRIDE beneath, as a flash design.
Sugar skull bride with rose crown
Black and grey lettering design of a globe wrapped in botanical sprigs, with the words Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Globe with lettering and botanical sprigs
Black and white line drawing of a botanical design with a dahlia-like flower and a fern stem, labelled Leo with a short line of text beneath, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Leo botanical flash with dahlia and fern
Black ink line drawing of a circular floral wreath with mandala-style patterns and the words BE FREE in the centre, shown on white paper with no body placement.
Be free floral wreath design
Fine line flash design of the words Do small things with great love, with a stylised flower and leaves at each side.
Quote with flowers and leaves design
Black flowing script reading Ohana with two small hibiscus flowers beneath the letters, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Ohana script with hibiscus flowers