Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black cursive script lettering on a plain white background, reading "I didn't give you the gift of life, life gave me the gift of you."
Script quote design, gift of life
White textured hand lettering reading IF NOT NOW WHEN, stacked over several lines on a black background, in a lettering design style.
If not now, when hand lettering
Pencil drawing of a cracked pocket watch with Roman numerals, two shaded roses and script lettering, drawn as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses pencil design
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style dagger with the name Rumplestiltskin on the blade and a banner reading All Magic Comes With a Price, drawn as a tattoo design.
Dagger and banner reading All Magic Comes With a Price
Bold black hand-lettered word Smile in a flowing script style, drawn with marker on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design.
Smile hand lettering in black ink
Black ink script lettering samples with flourishes, including phrases such as Adaggio and Love Catalogue, and a full lowercase and numeral alphabet along the bottom.
Script lettering specimen sheet
Traditional style flash design of a smiling pin-up woman in boots and gloves riding an oversized black moustache, with Best Ride lettering and Giddy Up beside it.
Pin-up woman riding a giant moustache
White fine line script reading Remember why you started on a plain black background, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Remember why you started script lettering
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with the words we were, AND IN THAT MOMENT I SWEAR and infinite woven into an infinity symbol, shown on plain paper.
Infinity loop with lettered quote design
Hand-drawn blue ink design of the word Faith in ornate script lettering with swirling flourishes on cream paper, beside a blue felt-tip pen.
Faith script lettering with flourishes
Black ink decorative script alphabet showing upper and lower case letters with swirling flourishes, in a lettering style, on a white background.
Decorative script alphabet sheet
Pencil drawing of ornate script lettering with swirling flourishes and a shaded banner, shown on paper beside a black fineliner pen.
Script lettering design with flourishes
Black fine line handwritten script reading just imagine, with a small outlined heart beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Just imagine script with small heart
Hand-drawn script lettering design reading Mind on my money, money on my mind, in black ink on cream paper, being traced by a hand holding a pen.
Script lettering sketch on paper
Black line drawing of an upright cross with the words 'my GOD'S NOT DEAD' set in a thin, hand-lettered typeface on the crossbar, shown as a flash design.
Cross design with 'my God's not dead' text
Black line drawing flash of a pocket watch with roses, leaves and a chain, with a script banner of lettering beneath, styled as a traditional tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses with script banner
Black line flash sheet of Harry Potter themed tattoo designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and quoted lettering.
Harry Potter themed tattoo design sheet
Red and cream woodcut-style drawing of a top hat with the words WE ARE ALL MAD HERE lettered across its crown, with radiating lines either side.
We are all mad here top hat
Black linework lettering design on a white background reading And so the adventure begins, with flourished capitals and underlines.
And so the adventure begins lettering
Hand-lettered black text reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with a flock of black bats, on a yellow background; a lettering design that could be used as a tattoo.
Lettering design with bats on yellow
Black line drawing of a heart outline containing blackletter-style lettering that reads Family, with a large decorative initial F, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Family lettering in a heart outline
Two versions of a black and purple lettering design with a cross arc, a heart and the words God, hearts made us friends and sisters, shown with no body placement.
Lettering design reading God and sisters
Hand-drawn black ink lettering sheet of the numbers 0 to 9, an exclamation mark and an ampersand, in a decorative lettering style suitable as tattoo flash.
Hand-drawn numerals and symbols sheet
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a woman's head in profile with three ribbon banners reading DARLING, YOU'LL BE and OKAY, drawn on a notebook page.
Ribbon banners reading Darling, You'll Be Okay
Fine line script lettering design reading ..and in time, this too shall pass. in black ink on a plain white background.
Script quote lettering design
Black Arabic calligraphy lettering design on a white background, drawn as a flowing script with a dot and a small diamond mark, shown without any body placement.
Arabic calligraphy lettering design
Pen sketch of the words Who I am today is worse than other times in mixed lettering styles, with no body part visible.
Hand-drawn lettering sketch of a quote
Black line drawing of the word IDGAF in decorative lettering, with striped and swirled letter details and floral doodles, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
IDGAF lettering with doodle florals
Two black script lettering designs on a white background, one in flowing copperplate style and one in a looser handwritten style, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Two lettering designs in black script
Coloured flash design of a sword, pipe, staff and cloak among leaves, with a yellow banner reading Home is behind the world ahead, in a neo-traditional lettering style.
Banner lettering with sword and pipe design
Coloured pencil drawing of a clenched fist with red nails and a lettering design reading 'be kind to yourself' with a small heart on the wrist, in a lettering style.
Fist with 'be kind to yourself' wrist design
Black and white lettering design in the shape of a rabbit standing upright, with the words I must become the lion hearted girl set in hand-drawn script.
Rabbit silhouette filled with lettering
Black ink drawing of a planchette design with a central eye, YES, NO and GOODBYE lettering and dotwork shading on a white sheet.
Planchette with eye and YES NO GOODBYE lettering
Drawn tattoo design of a shaded rose beside ornate script reading love me, with a line of serif text reading That's all I ask of you, on a white background.
Love me script with shaded rose design
Flash sheet of three botanical designs: a coloured rose bouquet, a navy wreath with Stop and Smell the Roses lettering, and a floral heart with Joie de Vivre script.
Floral bouquet, rose wreath lettering and floral heart
Flash sheet of six black line infinity symbol designs, several with lettering such as faith, Strength, LOVE and HOPE, drawn on a white background.
Infinity symbol tattoo flash designs
Black and grey flash design of a banner reading Life's A Gamble above playing cards, dice, a classic car and flames.
Life's a Gamble with cards, dice and car
Black hand-lettered script reading Be you, bravely, set inside a looping wreath of leafy sprigs on a plain light background, shown as a tattoo design.
Be you, bravely lettering in a leafy wreath
Black ink flash design of a palm tree with the words Less Monday and More summer set in brush script either side of the trunk.
Palm tree with "Less Monday, more summer" lettering
Watercolour-style drawing of the cartoon character Stitch sitting beside the word OHANA in thin handwritten lettering on a cream background.
Stitch sitting beside the word Ohana
Black line drawing of the words you are my anchor in handwritten lettering, above an anchor whose shank forms a heart, suitable as a lettering and anchor tattoo design.
You are my anchor lettering with anchor and heart
Black and grey hand-lettered tattoo flash design of an anchor with rope and the words If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land, drawn on a sketchbook page, with no body part shown.
Anchor with hand-lettered quote design
Monochrome lettering design shaped as a skull, reading Beautiful Disaster and Sinner Saint, shown as a flash-style artwork with no body placement.
Lettering skull design in white on black
Ink drawing of a script lettering design with swirling flourishes and leaf shapes on white paper, being traced with a fine liner pen.
Script lettering with flourishes on paper
Line drawing of a Wanderlust banner across a globe with blossoms and leaves in a neo-traditional style, shown as a tattoo design on tracing paper with no body placement visible.
Wanderlust globe and flowers flash design
Black line drawing of a hand with a chain around the wrist, black-tipped nails and the words NEVER TALK in spaced capitals, a fine line tattoo design.
Hand with chain and NEVER TALK lettering
Black flourished script reading Live Out Loud on a white background, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo with no body placement shown.
Live Out Loud script lettering design
Black and white flash design of the words Shine On You Crazy in bubble lettering set inside a solid diamond outline.
Shine On You Crazy lettering inside a diamond