Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional-style flash design of dice, a green bottle and a can in flames above a banner reading Roll the Dice, with no body placement shown.
Roll the dice flash with flames and banner
Black linework flash design of a gramophone inside an ornate oval frame, with leaves and a banner reading Music is a place to be, drawn on tracing paper.
Gramophone in an ornate frame with banner
Hand-drawn pencil sketch of the words Once upon a time in ornate script with swirling flourishes, a lettering design for a tattoo.
Once upon a time lettering sketch
Black ink drawing of a stylised calligraphic script design with curling flourishes on a plain grey background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Black ink calligraphic swirl design
Two pencil sketches of ornate lettering designs, one reading HOPE and one reading FAITH, with flourishes around each word.
Hope and Faith lettering sketches
Black linework flash sheet of Irish-themed tattoo designs, including a shamrock, harp, pipe, horseshoe, pot of gold and banner lettering, shown on a flat, unmarked white sheet.
Irish-themed traditional flash sheet
Black and grey pencil design of symmetrical blackletter-style lettering with four wolf heads and flowing ornamental lines, drawn as a flash design for a tattoo.
Symmetrical blackletter lettering with four wolf heads
Black tribal-style lettering design with curling swirls and tapering spikes, shown as a standalone flash design on a white background.
Tribal swirl lettering design
Black line drawing of the word King with a crown and the word Queen with a crown, both in flowing script, presented as a pair of flash designs.
King and Queen script with crowns
Pen sketch of a head and shoulders in profile outline, with the words We're all stories in the end, Just make it a good one, eh? lettered inside the shape in a hand-drawn script.
Profile outline with lettered quote
Black fine line design of an ECG heartbeat trace that spikes once then runs flat, with the words SLEEP FOREVER in serif capitals below, on a plain grey background.
Flatline heartbeat with SLEEP FOREVER lettering
Black ink flash drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope with the word SAILORS in ornate lettering across it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Anchor and SAILORS lettering design
Black ink drawing of decorative script lettering with shaded capitals, swirling flourishes and a leaf motif, drawn on paper beside a black fineliner pen.
Script lettering with flourishes
Black line drawing flash design of a banner reading Death before decaf, flanked by roses, with a teacup bearing a skull and crossbones, in a traditional style.
Death before decaf banner with roses and teacup
Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman in a cap with script lettering, a hand raised to her mouth and a rosary, a tattoo flash design with no placement on the body.
Pencil portrait of a woman in a script-embroidered cap
Black line drawing of overlapping circles of varying sizes above the words You are Loved by so Many and so Much and By no One more than ME, on a white background.
Overlapping circles with quote lettering
Black ink line drawing of a pine tree, a deer and hatched hillside with a banner reading Prone to Wander, on aged paper.
Prone to Wander pine and deer design
Colour flash design of a steel anchor wrapped in banners reading Just Keep Swimming, surrounded by cartoon sea creatures on a blue background.
Anchor with Just Keep Swimming banners
Hand-drawn ink design of a winged sheep across three banners reading A teenage vow in a parking lot, til tonight do us part, with grey shading and brown and yellow wash accents.
Winged sheep with lyric banners
Red script lettering reading Trust No One, arranged in a heart shape on a plain light grey background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Trust no one script in a heart shape
Black and white flash design of a coffin with a central skull, flourishes and a block of lettering on a speckled background, in a lettering style.
Coffin with skull and lettering
Black line lettering design arranged in a circle reading 'What goes around comes around', shown on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Circular 'What goes around' lettering design
Black flowing script lettering reading Veni Vidi Vici on a white background, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Veni Vidi Vici in flowing script
Black line drawing of a lettering design reading The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go, with three peaks above and a ribbon banner below, in a lettering style.
The mountains are calling lettering design
Black ink script lettering reading Blue Neighbourhood, drawn by a hand holding a pen on white paper, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Blue Neighbourhood script lettering design
Black hand-drawn uppercase alphabet lettering design in a playful, bouncy script, shown twice on a white background, with no body placement.
Uppercase alphabet in playful hand-drawn script
Black and grey realistic drawing of an eye with the words Don't Blink in block lettering above, and a screaming face reflected in the pupil.
Don't Blink eye design with screaming face
Black line drawing of a razor blade beside hand-lettered text reading "If I were you, I'd put that away" and "Darling, you'll be okay" on a white background.
Razor blade with hand-lettered quote
Brown blackletter lettering design reading Old School on a white background, with swashed capitals and fine trailing strokes, shown as a flash design rather than on skin.
Old School blackletter lettering design
Black fine-line script lettering of the word Pause on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Pause script lettering design
Black and grey pen drawing of an ornate lettered banner design with flourished scrollwork, shown on paper beside two drawing pens.
Lettered banner design with flourishes
Black script lettering reading inspired, with swirling flourishes and small sparkle stars on a white background, in the style of a tattoo lettering design.
Inspired script lettering design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a ship's wheel enclosing a sailing ship, a flower below, and the words DARLIN IM NOT above and COMIN HOME below.
Ship's wheel and flower sketch with lettering
Black and grey pencil drawing of the word Love in ornate script with sketched flourishes, leaves and swirls, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Ornate script design spelling Love
Nautical flash design of white lettering on a navy background, with a crossed anchor, lifebuoy, flags and banners in a traditional style.
Nautical lettering with anchor and lifebuoy
Black ink flash sheet of lettering quotes, including follow your dreams, let it go, you got this and be strong and courageous, decorated with arrows and feathers, with no body placement shown.
Arrow and lettering quote flash sheet
Pencil flash sketch of a Roman numeral clock with a rose and two lettered banners, with a pocket watch and beaded chain, in traditional style.
Clock, rose and banners sketch
Black line drawing of an arched headstone with a small winged cherub at the top, the words EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL, AND NOTHING HURT in outlined capitals, and tufts of grass at the base.
Headstone with angel and quote
Pencil sketch tattoo design of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, roses and leaves, and the script words Time flies.
Pocket watch with roses and script lettering
Black and grey flash design of a stippled full moon above the script words Fly me to the moon, shown on a plain light background with no body placement visible.
Full moon with script lettering flash
White hand-lettered script reading Brave with a small arrow beneath it, drawn on a plain black background in a lettering style suited to a tattoo design.
Brave script with arrow design
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with three stacked ribbon banners reading Fortune favors the hustle, shown on paper with no placement on the body.
Fortune favors the hustle ribbon banner
Hand-drawn script lettering reading freed, with CHRIST above and ME below, flanked by green leaf sprigs on a speckled off-white background.
Christ freed me script lettering with leaves
Illustrated design of a pigtailed character blowing pink bubble gum and holding a baseball bat, with bold lettering and watercolour splashes in pink, purple and teal.
Pigtailed character with bubble gum and bat
Black and grey tattoo design with the words She is clothed in strength and dignity, framed by blossom branches and two butterflies.
Proverbs 31:25 lettering with blossom and butterflies
Handwritten lettering in black ink on pale paper, forming an infinity symbol with the words Live the life you love, as a flash design for a lettering tattoo.
Live the life you love infinity lettering
Black and grey flash design of the words Be Different in script lettering over a stippled dotwork flower with leaves, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Be Different script over a dotwork flower
Fine line black script lettering that appears to read Free, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Fine line script lettering reading Free