Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey traditional-style flash design of two ghosts in a framed panel, with the lettering No Feet beneath them and a spiderweb behind.
Two ghosts in a framed box with No Feet
Flash drawing of a black cat with a pentacle on its head, a blackletter banner reading Harm none, Do as ye wilt, and a row of moon phases above.
Black cat with banner and moon phases
Black ink flash drawing of a cartoon penguin in a bow tie, framed by flowers and two banners reading It Ain't Easy and Been Wheezy, in a traditional style.
Penguin with banners flash design
Black line drawing flash design of a thread spool with crossed needles, a crown, scissors and a banner reading Make Things, in a traditional ornamental style.
Spool, needles and Make Things banner
Black and grey traditional flash design of a sailing ship on rough sea inside a ship's wheel, with banners reading NEED YOU LIKE WATER IN MY LUNGS.
Sailing ship in a ship's wheel with banner lettering
Black line drawing of Bender, the Futurama robot, holding a cigar, with flowers, leaves and a LETS GO ALREADY banner in a traditional flash style.
Bender robot banner flash design
Black and white traditional-style dagger design with three banners reading WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE SCARY MOVIE, shown as a sticker on a wooden surface.
Dagger and banner with scary movie lettering
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 and grey traditional style flash design of a skeleton framed by banners reading COME BACK TO LIFE, with a VERB banner at the top.
Skeleton with come back to life banners
Black line drawing of a sailing ship, tentacles, waves and an anchor with a banner reading I am the captain of my soul, shown as a traditional-style tattoo design.
Ship and anchor flash with captain banner
Black and grey pencil flash drawing of a bomb with fins, a smoke cloud and a ribbon banner with lettering, in a traditional style.
Bomb with banner and smoke flash
Traditional style flash drawing of a magenta coffin wrapped in three yellow banners that read LEAVE A PRETTY CORPSE, with bold black outlines.
Coffin with banner reading Leave a Pretty Corpse
Teal line drawing in a traditional nautical style showing a sailing ship, waves and an anchor wrapped in rope, with a banner reading I am the captain of my soul.
Sailing ship and anchor banner design
Black and white flash sheet of Joker-themed tattoo designs, including a jester skull, playing cards, HAHA lettering, a grinning mouth and the word JOKER.
Joker-themed tattoo flash sheet in black ink