Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black handwritten script reading "And she will be loved" on a white background, with a single sweeping stroke above the first word, shown as a lettering tattoo design.
Handwritten "And she will be loved" lettering
Pencil sketch of a heart outline with cursive script lettering that appears to read I'm fine, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Heart outline with script lettering
Black and grey drawn tattoo flash of a dagger crossing a banner reading The blood of my enemies, with clouds and stars, in a traditional style.
Dagger and banner lettering flash design
Three Hebrew words in black lettering, each with English meanings beneath, shown as a lettering design sheet for a possible tattoo.
Hebrew words for strength and courage
Black ink dotwork drawing of a dagger piercing an open umbrella, with raindrops and the lettering True Friends and Stab you in the front, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Dagger and umbrella with True Friends lettering
Black handwritten script lettering reading The struggle is part of the story on a pale cream background, drawn as a flash design for a tattoo.
Script lettering reading The struggle is part of the story
Black script lettering design reading Fall down seven times, stand up eight on a plain white background, in a Lettering style.
Script quote reading fall down seven times
Black ink hand-lettered design on a white background reading Thanks for the pain, It made me raise my game, with small decorative dots and curls.
Thanks for the pain lettering design
Black line design of the word Love arranged inside a heart outline, with a small heart and a Song of Solomon 8:7 quotation in mixed lettering styles.
Heart-shaped lettering reading Love
Flash sheet of tattoo designs photographed on a gift box, including a blue owl, a koi fish, a realistic eye, three BELIEVE lettering designs and a feathered headdress, all shown without a body
Traditional flash sheet with owl, eye and lettering
Black handwritten script reading be brave, framed by green leaves and small orange, yellow and pink flowers, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Be brave script with flower wreath
Purple line drawing of a leaping lion pierced by two arrows, with a banner reading BE NOT AFRAID across its body, in a traditional tattoo flash style.
Leaping lion with arrows and banner
Hand-drawn black ink lettering reading Ph 1:6 with a semicolon-like mark and a cross, circled on lined notebook paper, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Hand-drawn Ph 1:6 lettering with a cross
Hand-drawn grey lettering design reading IF NOT NOW WHEN, with the words stacked and shaded in pencil on paper.
If not now when lettering design
Flash-style drawing of a large key wrapped in two banners reading Courage is the Key, with a heart-shaped lock, a compass and bubbles, in traditional-style colour outlines.
Key with Courage is the Key banners
Black line drawing of a cartoon character with spiky hair and antennae, raising two middle fingers, above a traditional banner reading Peace Among Worlds.
Cartoon character with Peace Among Worlds banner
Black script lettering design reading Dolci sogni on a white background, a lettering-style tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Dolci sogni script lettering design
Flourished script lettering reading All that glisters is not gold, with a smaller line beneath, shown as a black and grey design with no body placement.
All that glisters is not gold lettering
Black ink line drawing of a pizza slice with dripping cheese, a striped handled tool and two banners reading Love dies and Pizza is forever, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Pizza slice with banners reading Love dies and Pizza is
Black brush-script lettering reading Carpe Diem on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Carpe Diem brush lettering
Black ink flash sheet of hand-drawn lettering, hearts, roses and plasters on a notebook page, pinned to a string against a pink background.
Hand-drawn lettering flash sheet on notebook paper
Black linework flash drawing of a lace-edged heart with two script lettering banners and rays, drawn on tracing paper, suited to a neo-traditional tattoo.
Heart and script banners flash design
Black handwritten lettering design of the word relax, with a long vertical stroke running through the l, on a plain white background.
Relax lettering design
Black and grey traditional tattoo designs printed on a white sweatshirt, including swallows over a clasped-hands heart, a rose with a banner, a stag and an anchor.
Tattoo designs printed on a white sweatshirt
Purple and black hand-lettered Psalm 91:4 design with a feather illustration, lettering style, no body placement shown.
Psalm 91:4 lettering with a feather
Black and white flash design of a solid spiky starburst with the word YAY in white hand-drawn capitals on a plain white background.
Starburst with YAY lettering
Black line drawing of a heart outline with flowing script lettering running along its edges, shown in three variants on a white background.
Heart outline with script lettering
Black and grey flash design of a globe with a botanical sprig border and script lettering reading Be the change you hope to see in the world.
Globe with botanical lettering design
Black and white flash sheet of numbered semicolon designs with the words Your story isn't over yet in varied lettering styles.
Semicolon lettering flash sheet
Black and white lettering design of a crescent moon with a seated silhouette figure, the script words set within the moon's black shape.
Crescent moon with seated figure and script
Black cursive script tattoo lettering design on a white background, reading 'Lose your mind.' above 'Find your soul.'
Two-line cursive script quote design
Hand-lettered grey script reading His beloved on a plain white background, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo.
His beloved hand-lettered script
Black and grey line drawing flash of a pin-up woman with pigtails, sunglasses and a cigarette, with lettering across her chest.
Pin-up with lettering across the chest
Black and grey flash design of the words HOLY SHIT set in a circle, with bold interlocking letters and a halftone texture.
Circular lettering reading HOLY SHIT
Black and grey flash design of a crescent moon filled with line-drawn flowers and dotwork shading, with a constellation of stars and handwritten script beside it.
Floral crescent moon with stars and script
Black line drawing of the words Country Girl in flowing script, with a horse head outline above the letters and a heart shape below, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Country Girl script with horse head and heart
Black and white flash design of a sword running through the words Be Brave Not Safe in decorative lettering with swirling flourishes.
Be Brave Not Safe lettering with sword
Hand-drawn ornate letterform in red fineliner with scrolls, filigree and hatched shading, a design suited to lettering-style tattoos.
Ornate red ink lettering sketch
Black and grey hand-drawn design of a stack of books with the words I might read until I feel better in lettering across the spines.
Stack of books with a reading quote
White lettering on a black background forming a skull outline, with the words Beautiful Disaster, Perfectly Imperfect, Love Hate, Live Fast Die Pretty and Sinner Saint.
Skull made of lettering
Black line drawing of bubbly script lettering reading Filthy Douche, surrounded by suds and bubbles, as a tattoo flash design.
Bubble lettering reading Filthy Douche
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Never give up in ornate script with flourishes, sketched in pencil on paper beside a pencil.
Never give up lettering design
Black line flash design of two fists with HAND MADE across the knuckles, beside a spool of thread, scissors, a needle and yarn.
Hand made fists with sewing tools
Pen-drawn ornate lettering design on paper with a large decorative initial, swirling flourishes and a cursive script word, shown beside a black fineliner pen.
Ornate flourished lettering design
Pencil drawing of a crescent moon, a hand holding a wand and two ribbon banners with script lettering, shaded in yellow and black linework.
In the Name of the Moon banner design
Pencil sketch of decorative lettering reading Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, with scrollwork and a banner, beside an eraser and two pencils.
Lettering sketch of a quote on a banner
Black script lettering on a white background reading 'La vita è un sogno', a tattoo design in a flowing calligraphic style.
Italian script quote 'La vita è un sogno'
Two black line drawings of potted cacti and succulents on banners reading DON'T BE A PRICK and SUCK IT, a botanical flash design.
Cactus and succulent flash with banner lettering