Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Pencil sketch of the word Wanderlust in script, with mountain peaks above the letters and a compass rose beside them, drawn on torn paper over wood.
Wanderlust script with mountains and compass
Black fine line drawing of an open heart outline with handwritten script wording curving around its upper right edge.
Open heart outline with script wording
Black fine line script lettering reading follow your heart, drawn on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Follow your heart script lettering
Black line drawing of a simple cross above the fine-line lettering I surrender who I've been for who you are, on a plain light grey background.
Cross and lettering quote design
Pen and ink drawing of an ornate script lettering design with swirling flourishes on cream paper, beside a black fineliner pen.
Ornate script lettering design in ink
Black linework flash design of a cartoon T-rex with feathered crest and leafy wreath, with the words We Need More Teeth, drawn in fine line on paper.
T-rex with leaves and We Need More Teeth
Black ink line sketch of a man with a quiff and a lightning bolt across his face, with lyrics in handwritten lettering and radiating lines, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Line drawing of a lightning bolt face with lyric
Fine line flash design of yarn balls, crossed knitting needles, a small heart and the word love in swirling script, drawn in dark red on a pale pink background.
Yarn, needles and script swirls
Black fine line script reading alis volat propriis, ending in a detailed feather, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Alis volat propriis script with feather
Black fine line script reading live your dream on a white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Live your dream script lettering
Fine line drawing of a hand with black painted nails, with the words SNAP OUT OF IT wrapped across the fingers as a hand tattoo design.
Hand with SNAP OUT OF IT lettering
Black fine line drawing of a giraffe whose outline and neck are formed from flowing script lettering, shown on a plain white background.
Giraffe outline formed from script lettering
Black line drawing of the words GET AWAY FROM ME, with each letter set on a thin stem with small leaves, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Get away from me lettering on stems
Black and grey stippled line drawing of an ornate old key beside the hand-lettered words 'We carry our prisons with us'.
Ornate key and 'We carry our prisons with us'
Handwritten script reading don't worry, joined by a long thin horizontal line, in white on a black textured background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Don't worry script lettering design
Fine line script design reading carpe diem, drawn with one continuous black line that extends to both sides, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Carpe diem script line design
Black line drawing of a heartbeat trace with fine script lettering along its length, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Heartbeat line with script wording
Black line flash sheet of three small dragon designs on aged paper, with the words I am fire and I am death between them.
Three dragon designs with I am fire and I am death
Handwritten script lettering reading I'll love you 'til the end in black ink on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Handwritten I'll love you 'til the end lettering
Black and grey pen drawing of an anchor tattoo design built from a ship, two swallows, a butterfly, roses, a compass and small lettering, in a fine line style.
Anchor tattoo design made of small icons
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 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 heart reading TACOS BEFORE VATOS, surrounded by sparkles and small flowers, as a fine line tattoo design.
Tacos before vatos heart flash
Fine line hourglass design with mountains, a crescent moon and the words He has made everything beautiful in its time, drawn on white paper beside pens and a phone.
Hourglass and mountains with verse lettering
Black ink pen drawing of a dreamcatcher design with a tree of life, beads and feathers, drawn in fine line on white paper, not shown on skin.
Dreamcatcher with feathers design
Thin black script reading Someday followed by three dots, shown as a fine line lettering tattoo design on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Someday script lettering design
Fine line drawing of a hand making the horns gesture above a purple banner reading I DON'T CARE, shown as a tattoo design.
Horns hand gesture with banner
Black handwritten script reading 'This too shall pass.' on a plain white background, a lettering design suited to a fine line tattoo.
Handwritten 'This too shall pass' lettering
A six-panel grid of small black fine line tattoo designs on pale backgrounds, including mountains with a moon, a tree with stars, a leaf, a serpent, and a ring with inscribed lettering.
Six small fine line tattoo designs in a grid
Fine line black ink drawing of a steaming coffee mug with the word Mornin' beneath it, drawn on a pale grey background.
Coffee mug with Mornin' lettering
Black fine line script lettering reading remain in me on a sage green background, a tattoo lettering design with no placement shown.
Remain in me script lettering design
Fine line flash design of a circular symbol with interlocking circles above the handwritten words I Love You, drawn in black on a white card.
Circular script and I love you design
Black ink line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word love in script, a feather at the lower right and a second script word on the right loop, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Infinity symbol with feather and script
Black fine line book stacks, quotation marks, Peter Pan silhouettes and quote lettering shown as a flash sheet, with the designs applied to a forearm in the lower right photo.
Book and quote designs on forearms
Black ink drawing of a top hat with a ribbon, above the quote "It's only a dream..." and the word ALICE, in a fine line style, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Top hat with ribbon and Alice quote
Fine line script lettering reading Stay Strong with a small heart and loose flourishes, drawn in black on a white background.
Stay Strong script with heart
Two black ink line drawings of pine forests below mountain peaks, with campfires and tents and the words Sleep Outside beneath each.
Mountain pines and Sleep Outside lettering
Pen drawing of an infinity symbol with the words live life with no regrets written in thin fine line script, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Infinity symbol with 'live life with no regrets' script
Black line drawing of a cross, a heartbeat line and a heart above the words Faith, Hope and Love on a plain pale background.
Cross, heartbeat and heart with Faith Hope Love
Pale pink handwritten script reading Aries on a coral background, a lettering design with no skin or body part visible.
Aries handwritten script lettering
Fine line lettering design reading WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the I, on a plain white background.
WARR;OR lettering design
Black monoline lettering on a white background spelling WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the letter I, in a lettering tattoo design.
Spaced lettering reading WARR;OR
Gold script lettering reading don't fear with a full stop, drawn in fine linework on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Don't fear script lettering design
Black line drawing of a hand-drawn sun with rays, with the words LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO ARE YOU lettered inside the circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Line drawn sun with lettered quote
Fine line drawing of an outstretched hand with poppy flowers, leaves, a moon and an eye motif, and the words trust the path unseen, in black ink with blue accents.
Hand with poppies and lettering
Gold handwritten script reading 'dont fear.' on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than on skin.
Handwritten 'dont fear.' script design
Black line drawing of a circular geometric diagram with arcs, dots and a small filled circle, above the words hello, sweetie in a thin script, shown as a tattoo design.
Circular line diagram with "hello, sweetie."
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