Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Pencil and ink flash sheet showing rat silhouettes with ornate key tails and Mind the Gap lettering, drawn without any body placement shown.
Rat and key designs with Mind the Gap script
Traditional style tattoo design of a black anchor, red heart and banner reading SORRY MOM, shown printed on white fabric with no body part visible.
Anchor and heart with SORRY MOM banner
Pencil flash sheet of traditional-style tattoo designs including a boxing glove, a swallow, a dagger, an anchor, an arrow and lettered banners.
Pencil flash sheet with boxing glove, swallow and banners
Flash sheet of tattoo designs with script lettering reading Stay Strong, let go and faith, plus a cross, lips, a feather, a heart and small birds.
Flash sheet of script quotes and small motifs
A coloured flash design of a cartoon lemon with a grumpy expression, a dark collar and leaves, framed by a cream banner reading 'When life gives you lemons' and 'HMMN YAAAGH'.
Lemon character with banner lettering
Black and grey flash design of a shaded feather with the script words One day I'll fly away running diagonally across it.
Feather with One day I'll fly away script
Black and grey drawing of a bull's head in profile above a scroll banner reading TAURUS, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Taurus bull head with scroll banner
Black ink hand-lettered design of the word Strength in flowing script on a white background, with a looping infinity-style flourish under the final letters, shown as a drawn design with no body
Strength hand lettering design
Traditional style flash design of a woman in leopard print holding a wand, with red roses and cream banners reading GREEN, SUPER GREEN, BZZZZZZTTT and HOT HOT HOT, on a green background.
Pin-up figure with roses and banners
Pencil sketch of a cross made from black cursive lettering on paper, with soft grey shading beneath the letters, shown as a lettering design without a body placement.
Cursive script words arranged in a cross
Tote bag printed all over with traditional-style flash designs of aliens, UFOs, hands, flowers, flames and banner lettering in colour.
Tote bag printed with tattoo flash designs
Pencil sketch of a neo-traditional tattoo flash design showing a portrait with a lightning bolt across the face, sparkles and a banner with the words ZIGGY PLAYED GUITAR.
Portrait with lightning bolt and banner design
Flash design of a scowling blue daruma-style mask with crossed swords behind it and the script lettering Read Between The Lines above, with no placement on the body shown.
Angry blue daruma mask with crossed swords
Four black script lettering designs of the word Wanderlust on a white background, with a small definition line beneath, shown as a lettering flash sheet with no body placement.
Wanderlust lettering in script styles
Black ink drawing on paper of two semicolons with the hand-lettered words OUR STORIES and WILL NEVER END, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Semicolon with hand-lettered quote design
Black and white flash drawing of a hand with crossed fingers holding a cigarette, with lettering around it and a small anchor on one finger.
Crossed fingers holding a cigarette
Traditional-style flash design of a red rose, two headstones with carved busts, clasped hands, a shovel and a banner reading Forever True.
Forever True flash with rose and headstones
Black fine line script lettering reading "He Lives" on a plain white background, drawn as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
"He Lives" script lettering design
Black and grey flash design of a three-masted pirate ship with a skull flag, surrounded by pirate-themed lettering and a shark.
Pirate ship with lettering flash design
Black line drawing of a winged symbol with a cross and an A-shaped figure, above the words Archangel Michael protects me, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Archangel Michael wings and cross design
Red pencil sketch of a woman's face with closed eyes, a feathered headdress and roses, drawn as a tattoo design on a sketchbook page.
Woman with feather headdress and roses sketch
Black ink flash sheet showing three Deathly Hallows symbols with curved script quotes, and a pair of winged designs flanking the word Always.
Deathly Hallows symbols with script lettering
Flash design of a blonde cartoon woman in a pink dress, framed by roses, thorns, two birds and a banner reading Once Upon a Dream, in a bold neo-traditional style.
Blonde heroine with roses and a banner
Pencil drawing of three owls perched on a branch above the words Nobody's Perfect in ornate block lettering, with a fourth owl hanging upside down, drawn on wood-grain paper.
Owls on a branch with Nobody's Perfect lettering
Black bold script lettering set vertically on a cream background, shown as a lettering design with no skin or body placement visible.
Bold black script lettering, set vertically
Navy line drawing of a vintage-style woman holding a fringed banner that reads FREE WILL, on a tan background, shown as a tattoo design.
Woman holding a fringed FREE WILL banner
Hand-lettered navy script reading 'the ocean cures all' stacked over three lines on a white background, a lettering design suitable as a tattoo stencil.
The ocean cures all lettering design
Black line drawing of a heart outline with swirling script letters inside, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Heart with swirling script lettering
Black line drawing of a circular Tengwar script inscription, a Tolkien-style Elvish lettering design with no body part shown.
Tengwar ring inscription lettering design
Black ink drawing on white paper of the word HOME formed from wood grain lines, with a knot in the letter O, suited to a lettering design.
Word HOME drawn in wood grain with a knot
Black ink pen drawing of a wooden treehouse on a tree trunk, surrounded by cloud shapes and two banners reading out of student loans and treehouse homes, we all would pick the latter.
Treehouse with banner lettering design
Flash design of a heart-shaped Death Star wrapped in a REBUILD banner, drawn in grey linework with teal, yellow and orange accents on the ribbon.
Heart-shaped Death Star with REBUILD banner
Colour drawing of a tattoo design showing a purple and orange mountain inside a golden laurel wreath, with the words Don't paint me black when I used to be golden in black lettering.
Mountain in a golden laurel wreath with lettering
Traditional style flash design of two swallows, a red rose, a red heart, a banner reading All of time and space, a pocket watch and a sonic screwdriver style pen, on a tan background.
Swallows, rose and heart flash with banner
Black ink script lettering reading "it is well" with flowing calligraphic strokes on a pale textured background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Script lettering reading it is well
Black and grey hand-drawn tattoo flash design of ornate Mom lettering with a rose, leaves and the words Happy Birthday and Always by my side.
Ornate Mom lettering with a rose
Black line drawing of two fists with CATLADY across the knuckles, framed by flowers, in a traditional tattoo style, printed on a white crop top.
Knuckle fists with CATLADY lettering
Black line drawing of ornate script lettering decorated with flowers, hearts and dotted outlines, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Script lettering design with flowers
Traditional flash design of a black stiletto shoe with a yellow and red cupcake-style platform, a dagger through a red heart, blood drops and the word HEARTBREAKER running up the heel.
Heartbreaker stiletto with dagger and heart
Overhead view of many small temporary tattoo designs, including animals, flowers, lettering and simple line motifs, scattered around a silver tin marked SUPER.
Temporary tattoo designs around a metal tin
Black line drawing design of a cross and heartbeat line that becomes a heart, with the words Faith, Hope and Love beneath it.
Cross, heartbeat and heart with Faith Hope Love
Flash design of the words Mama Tried in ornate gold-brown lettering, with a revolver and pink and white flowers around it.
Mama Tried lettering with revolver and flowers
Traditional style flash design of an open book with a quill and chain, flanked by two closed leather-bound books, with banner scrolls carrying lettering above and below.
Open book with quill and banner scrolls
Gold metallic design of three palm trees with the word SMILE, with a small palm tree in place of the letter I, on a white background.
Gold palm trees with SMILE lettering
White line-art crest on a black background with a bird, a pentagram, a police box, a lattice panel and a banner reading all who wander are lost.
Crest design with bird, police box and banner
Neo-traditional flash design of a blonde woman in a dark gown and white gloves, holding a small mouse, with a clock, a bird and a KEEP ON BELIEVING banner.
Princess with mouse in a leafy frame
Black line drawing of an ornate genie lamp with two roses, leaves and swirling smoke, with script lettering, shown as a flash design on cream paper.
Genie lamp and roses flash with script
Traditional flash sheet with the words NO MONEY NO TATTOO, a swallow, a lighthouse, falling coins, a clasped handshake on a striped sleeve, an anchor and shears in the corners.
No money no tattoo flash sheet