Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with three skulls, roses and three scrolling banners reading See, Hear and Speak no evil, drawn in black and grey shading.
Skulls, roses and no evil banners design
Black line drawing of a striped bee with hatched wings holding a banner that reads HAPPY, shown as a tattoo design.
Bee with a HAPPY banner
Traditional style flash sheet showing a black heart with a pink rose and teal leaves, beside two black and gold hearts with a YOU SUCK banner and arrows, with no body placement shown.
Rose heart and banner hearts flash sheet
Black line drawing of a hand-lettered quote reading "But I crumble completely when you cry." in a lettering style, with broken, crumbling letterforms, on a white background.
Hand-lettered quote in black line
Traditional-style flash design on a wooden board showing a smiling sloth above a banner reading DON'T HURRY BE HAPPY, framed by colourful flowers and leaves.
Sloth with banner flash design
White line drawings on a black background of traditional tattoo flash, including a skull with a dagger, a horseshoe, an anvil, roses, an envelope reading I HATE YOU and a spider web.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, dagger and horseshoe
Black and grey line drawing of a skeletal hand raising a gavel above cannabis leaves and small flowers, with the word LIBRA and the caption justice: just us beneath, shown as a tattoo design rather
Skeletal hand holding a gavel with cannabis leaves
Black line drawing of a yarn ball with two knitting needles and a heart, with banners reading MY SOUL IS FED WITH NEEDLE AND THREAD, drawn as a tattoo flash design.
Yarn ball and needles with banner lettering
Black linework traditional flash sheet showing a perfume bottle, a potted plant with a banner, a sundae, a hand holding lipstick, a pin-up, cherries and a knife with banners.
Traditional flash sheet with pin-up and cherries
Black ornamental lettering design with sweeping flourishes on a white background, in a lettering style with no body placement shown.
Ornate black lettering with flourishes
Black and grey flowing script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross, drawn on pale paper as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Script lettering arranged as a cross
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
Pencil sketch of the Batman bat symbol with the word BATMAN in block lettering, shaded with hatching and cracked details, shown as a design with no body placement.
Batman logo pencil sketch
Black line lettering design stacking the letters A, an ampersand, C and E vertically on a white background, in a bold lettering style with no body placement shown.
Stacked A, ampersand, C and E lettering design
Black linework flash sheet showing the word Sprinkles set in many lettering styles, including Dutch serif, script, curved and hand-drawn forms.
Sprinkles lettering variations on a flash sheet
Black line drawing flash design of a winged bat over a ribbon banner reading Children of the Night, What Music They Make, with a castle and roses below.
Bat, castle and roses banner design
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a skull, roses and a banner reading Dead men tell no tales, in a neo-trad lettering style.
Skull and banner lettering design
Traditional style flash design of a dagger dripping blood, wrapped in lettered banners over a drawn arm with a spider web and rose.
Dagger and banners flash with blood
Six black script lettering designs of the words Stand up, in varied flowing and bold handwritten styles, shown as a tattoo flash sheet.
Stand up script lettering designs
Pencil sketch of a ribbon threaded with pearls, topped by a small pink heart, with a word written on the ribbon tail; it is a drawing on paper, not a tattoo on skin.
Pearl ribbon design with a pink heart
Flash sheet of four cartoon fox designs in neo-traditional style, each with a banner and flowers, the banners reading Be Quiet, Don't Talk To Me, Gross and Please Leave.
Four fox flash designs with banners
Black brush-script lettering reading in the waves of change we find our direction, framed by an arrow at the top and bottom, shown as a flash design.
Quote lettering with arrows flash design
Three stacked panels of ornate hand-lettered design: a pen-and-ink sketch of the words Black Magic on paper, a blurred close-up of white and red outlined letters on black, and a close-up of
Black Magic ornate lettering design
Black ink script lettering flash sheet with ornate words including Ginger, Beautifully and Fish Stories, plus a lowercase alphabet, with no body part shown.
Script lettering flash sheet
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a curved heart outline with the words Beautifully Wonderfully Made in handwritten script and Psalm 139:14 beside it, with no body placement shown.
Pencil sketch of a heart with scripture lettering
Four black line drawing designs of the Deathly Hallows triangle, circle and line symbol paired with the word Always in script lettering, with one version adding small stars.
Deathly Hallows symbol with Always lettering designs
Twelve month names from January to December in black blackletter lettering with flourishes, drawn on textured white paper, shown as a vertical strip.
Twelve month names in blackletter lettering
Set of pencil lettering sketches for a tattoo design with decorative block and script letters, shaded ribbon banner and flourishes, shown without a body placement.
Lettering sketches with ribbon banner and flourishes
Black ink flash design of three Chinese characters stacked vertically, labelled in capitals as love, peace and happiness, on a white background.
Love, peace and happiness characters
Black and grey lettering flash design reading From dust you were made unto dust you shall return, with a stippled skull beside the words.
Lettering flash with skull and dust quote
Black and grey shaded drawing of a lion cub inside a circle, with the words Remember who you are curved around the lower edge.
Lion cub design with 'Remember who you are'
Black and grey realistic flash design of praying hands wrapped in a rosary beneath a scroll banner reading INRI.
Praying hands with rosary and INRI scroll
Tall red and yellow banner design of a sun with a face, a sword, a coiled red snake and hibiscus flowers, with the words Unbowed Unbent Unbroken on a ribbon.
Sun, sword and snake banner design
Black and white design of a vintage racing helmet above crossed gloves and crossed bones, with the words God speed on your way beneath it.
God speed helmet and crossed gloves design
Hand-drawn French script reading aimez-moi pour qui je suis in dark brown ink with a long flowing line on cream paper, shown as a lettering design.
French script lettering on paper
Black ink drawing of the word enough in flowing script, with two sweeping curved strokes forming a loose heart-like shape, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Enough script with swooping strokes
Black ink hand-lettered design reading I won't fall in love with falling, with the final word in flowing, elongated script on a plain off-white background.
Hand-lettered quote about falling
Black and white flash sheet of song lyric lettering designs with small icons such as a heart, planet, wings and arrow, in mixed script and block fonts.
Lyric lettering flash sheet in black
Vertical flash sheet of black and grey engraved designs, including a skull with candle, an eye, crossed bones, hands, scales and a plague doctor, with Latin lettering.
Vertical sheet of occult and engraved motifs
Pencil drawing of a shaded balloon on a long thin string, with the words let it go beneath it, shown as a flash-style design with no body placement.
Balloon on a string with let it go
Six black ink handwritten versions of the word hazel stacked vertically on white, varying from bold brush strokes to thin flowing lines, shown as lettering design options with no body placement.
Hazel in six handwritten script styles
Traditional style flash sheet of red and black heart designs, including a dagger through a heart, a rose with a MOM banner, and swallows with LOVE ALWAYS lettering.
Traditional heart flash sheet
Black and grey pencil flash design of a money tree with banknotes falling from its branches, two devil figures and the words Money the root of all evil.
Money tree sketch with devil figures
Black and grey flash sheet of numbered and lettered designs for the word The, shown in script, blackletter, block and ornamental styles, with no body placement.
Lettering sheet of the word The in many styles
Black script lettering design reading Love me for who I am on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Script lettering reading Love me for who I am
Traditional flash sheet with a green umbrella over a red rose and a path of raindrops, beside an anatomical heart, each with a scroll banner of lettering.
Umbrella, rose and anatomical heart flash
Black hand-drawn lettering design of phrases arranged in the shape of a cross, shown as a flash-style tattoo design on a white background.
Text cross lettering design
Black ink hand-lettered script design reading I loved you at your darkest, with Romans 5:8 beside it, drawn on white paper as a lettering design.
Script lettering: I loved you at your darkest