Lettering tattoo ideas

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

What will it cost? Try the tattoo cost calculator
Black and grey hand-drawn flash sheet of small tattoo designs, including a planet, paper plane, guitar, airplanes, a bridge, a sailboat and short phrases in lettering.
Hand-drawn tattoo design sheet with phrases and icons
Black script lettering reading She believed she could so she did on a white background, with small mandala doodles in the corners, drawn as a lettering design.
She believed she could so she did lettering
Black and grey flash drawing of a sloth holding two hatched banners reading NAP ALL DAY, SLEEP ALL NIGHT and PARTY NEVER, in a traditional style.
Sloth holding banners with slogan
Black ink drawing of the phrase It is well with my soul in hand-lettered script, flanked by two sprigs of leaves and berries on a white background.
It is well with my soul lettering with leafy vines
Flash design of a black-outlined ribbon banner with green shading carrying the lettering IN THE WAVES OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR TRUE DIRECTION, shown on a speckled background.
Ribbon banner with a lettered quote
Pencil sketch of a traditional style tattoo design showing a headstone inscribed Wish You Were Here, a crescent moon, a rose and leaves.
Headstone with rose and crescent moon design
Black teardrop design with white ornate script lettering reading The craziest thing we can do is nothing, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Teardrop lettering with swirled script
Black handwritten script reading "She's not afraid" with a small open heart beneath it, drawn as a lettering design on a white background.
"She's not afraid" script with a heart
Black brush lettering design reading Fuck around and find out, with sweeping underlines, drawn on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Fuck around and find out lettering design
White ornamental lettering reading Serenity, with swirling flourishes above and below, on a plain black background, shown as a tattoo design.
Serenity lettering with flourishes
Red pencil sketch of a neo-trad tattoo design showing a sugar skull woman with pinned curls, a profile of a man with a quiff, and a Vigilante script banner.
Sugar skull woman and profile man flash
White script lettering reading Be Brave above a horizontal arrow, shown as a tattoo design on a black background.
Be Brave script lettering with arrow
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a safety pin with a bow and two lettered ribbons, drawn on paper with no body part visible.
Safety pin and bow with lettered ribbons
Black ink drawing of the word hope in flowing hand-lettered script, with two feathered arrows passing beneath it, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Hope script lettering with two arrows
Black handwritten script reading 'This too shall pass.' on a plain white background, a lettering design suited to a fine line tattoo.
Handwritten 'This too shall pass' lettering
Black line drawing of the words OFF WITH HER HEAD arranged in the shape of a playing card club, with a spiral in the top lobe, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Off with her head lettering in a club shape
Black flowing script lettering reading Carpe Diem with long thin flourishes on a white background, a design for a tattoo.
Carpe Diem script lettering design
Pencil drawing of flourished script lettering reading Generic Life Advice You've Heard Before, sketched on grid paper beside a black brush pen.
Script lettering design on grid paper
Black line drawing of a flying saucer over a desert with cacti, an eye motif and the lettering Just Hold On We're Going Home, in a traditional flash style.
UFO and lettering tattoo design
Fine line black ink drawing of a steaming coffee mug with the word Mornin' beneath it, drawn on a pale grey background.
Coffee mug with Mornin' lettering
Black ink hand-lettered script with flourished swashes reading "Shit's totally fucked, let's eat pizza", with a small pizza slice drawn below, sketched in a notebook.
Hand-lettered script with pizza slice sketch
Black linework design of angular script arranged in a ring on a white background, suited to a lettering tattoo with no body placement shown.
Circular script inscription design
Black fine line script lettering reading remain in me on a sage green background, a tattoo lettering design with no placement shown.
Remain in me script lettering design
Black script lettering reading One Love with sweeping flourishes on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
One Love script lettering design
Two pencil drawings of tattoo designs in script lettering: a shaded key reading one heart, and a red and grey heart reading one love.
One heart key and one love heart designs
Flash sheet of green lettering designs with two-word phrases such as Hold Fast, Home Sick and Open Eyes, headed Knucks, drawn for knuckle tattoos.
Knuckle lettering flash sheet, mix and match
Navy line drawing of a bearded sailor in a striped top and cap, with tattooed arms, anchor and rope, and the lettering A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Sailor flash with smooth sea lettering
Hand-drawn ornate script lettering reading New York with fine line flourishes on white paper, sketched in progress with a pen.
New York ornate script lettering design
Black ink pen drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds, rays and an anchor, in a lettering style suited to a
Hot air balloon with journey banner design
Pencil sketch of the words Stay a little longer in flowing script lettering with swirled flourishes, drawn on paper beside a stencil and an eraser.
Stay a little longer script lettering sketch
Black cursive script lettering of the word agape on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Agape in cursive script lettering
Black ink line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word love in script, a feather at the lower right and a second script word on the right loop, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Infinity symbol with feather and script
Black and white tattoo design of bold italic script lettering set within a circular wreath of roses, peonies and a dahlia, with no body placement shown.
Script lettering in a circular rose and peony wreath
Black and grey flash design of a stylised phoenix in flight beside flowing calligraphic lettering on a cracked cream background.
Phoenix with flowing calligraphic script
Colour flash design of a blue TARDIS police box with white banners reading Wibbly Wobbly, Police Box and Timey Wimey Stuff, drawn in a neo-traditional style.
TARDIS with Wibbly Wobbly banners
Black fine line book stacks, quotation marks, Peter Pan silhouettes and quote lettering shown as a flash sheet, with the designs applied to a forearm in the lower right photo.
Book and quote designs on forearms
Black script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Cross-shaped script lettering design
Brush lettering design of the word Breathe in dark ink on cream paper, with a yellow marker pen lying beside it, in a lettering style.
Breathe hand lettering design
Black line drawing of a heart enclosing the words Adventure is where your heart is, with a cactus, mountains, palm tree, sailboat, pine trees and a sun, as a tattoo design.
Heart with adventure lettering and landscape
Black ink drawing of a crescent moon filled with mandala patterns, with the words To the moon and back and small stars along the inner edge.
Crescent moon mandala with lettering
Fine line script lettering reading Stay Strong with a small heart and loose flourishes, drawn in black on a white background.
Stay Strong script with heart
Black ink script lettering reading it is well, drawn as a flowing handwritten design on a plain white background, with no body part visible.
Script lettering reading it is well
Black and grey flash design of a dotwork-shaded rose with three arrows and the words "Love yourself so no one has to" curved around it.
Rose and arrows with "Love yourself" lettering
Pencil sketch of cursive script lettering arranged in a circle reading what goes around comes around, drawn on paper with no body placement visible.
Circular script lettering sketch
Pen drawing of an infinity symbol with the words live life with no regrets written in thin fine line script, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Infinity symbol with 'live life with no regrets' script
Black and white flash design of a stag head silhouette with hand-lettered text reading We will forever be wild and free over a row of pine trees.
Stag silhouette with lettering and pine trees
Black line drawing of a geometric circular design with decorative lettering above and below, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Circular symbol design with quotation
Black script lettering reading To The Moon with a long underline swash on a plain grey background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
To The Moon script lettering design