Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Collage of three black and grey forearm tattoos: a lettered Carl Sagan quote, an engraved travel scene with landmarks, and the word travel in fine line script with a heartbeat line.
Travel tattoos: quote, city landmarks and script
Fine line black script reading Jer 29:11, with a small purple semicolon, across the inner wrist.
Jer 29:11 script on the wrist
Close view of a small fine line script tattoo with a flowing underline on the side of a woman's neck, below her ear, with her hair in a bun.
Fine line script behind the ear
Fine line script tattoo reading bind my wandering heart to thee in black ink across the inner forearm.
Script quote on the inner forearm
Fine line black and grey tattoo of a crystal cluster on the forearm, with faint lettering partly visible above it.
Crystal cluster on the forearm
Black fine-line script tattoo reading Imperfection is beauty running along a pale forearm, photographed in black and white.
Script quote reading Imperfection is beauty
Fine line black script reading with pain comes strength runs vertically along the side of a torso, beside a hand with rings resting on a purple top.
Script quote along the side ribs
Black fine-line tattoo of the word Crikey with a crocodile-like shape on the outer ankle, in a fine line lettering style.
Crikey lettering with crocodile on an ankle
Black script reading Made of Love across a person's upper back, flanked by two small coloured circles, one red and one blue, with a thin silver chain visible.
Made of Love script on upper back
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
Fine line black ink tattoo of a cartoon creature above the line 'A person's a person, no matter how small' on the lower back.
Cartoon creature and quote on the lower back
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
Close photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Passion with a cross beneath it, placed on the back of the neck below dark hair.
Passion script tattoo on the neck
Two photos of a fine line black sunflower tattoo with small script lettering, one on the ankle above a checkered shoe and one behind the ear.
Sunflower tattoos on ankle and behind ear
Fine line black script reading l'amour fou, joined to a thin continuous line running along the forearm.
L'amour fou script on a forearm
Fine line black and grey botanical tattoo of a peony with leaves above element tiles spelling BReAtHe, on the side of a ribcage.
Peony and periodic table tiles on ribs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of angular lettering resembling GOD on the back of a neck, above a checked shirt collar.
Angular lettering on the back of the neck
Black ink line drawing on cream paper of a banner reading PRONE TO WANDER above pine trees, a stag and hatched hills, a design with no body placement shown.
Prone to wander banner with pine trees and deer
Black script lettering reading 'This too shall pass' tattooed across the inner wrist in a fine line lettering style.
Script lettering reading 'This too shall pass'
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading believe in yourself on a shoulder.
Believe in yourself script on shoulder
Close-up of a small fine line black script tattoo of a short handwritten phrase on the upper arm, with a black and white striped sleeve above.
Fine line script on an upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of handwritten script, a musical staff with notes and a treble clef on the inner forearm.
Script and music staff on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo on a forearm reading MAGIC, with a triangle, circle and vertical line symbol in place of the letter A.
MAGIC lettering with triangle symbol on a forearm
Three forearms side by side, each with a small stack of three outlined and filled triangles in black and grey fine line style on the inner forearm.
Three matching triangle tattoos on forearms
Fine line black script tattoo reading Smile on the side of a ribcage, with several moles visible on the surrounding skin.
Smile script on ribs
Small black lettering reading GRL PWR sits on the outer thigh of a seated person in black underwear and a white shirt.
GRL PWR lettering on a thigh
Black fine line script lettering runs down a person's forearm while they hold a vintage twin lens camera against a grey door.
Script lettering on a forearm
Fine line tattoo of a steaming coffee cup on a saucer, flanked by laurel sprigs and a handwritten phrase, on the upper chest.
Coffee cup and laurel sprigs on the chest
Fine line tattoo of a red watercolour-style poppy at the top of a woman's back, with a thin stem and cursive script running down the spine.
Red poppy with script down the spine
Close-up of a woman's bare back with fine black cursive lettering tattooed on the lower back, below the shoulder blade.
Cursive script lettering on upper back
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
Fine line script tattoo reading Carpe Diem on the side of a person's ribs, in warm evening light.
Carpe Diem script on the ribs
Fine line tattoo of a paper boat in a bottle with teal waves, a pink heart and the words LOVE TO TRAVEL on the upper thigh.
Paper boat in a bottle with lettering
Close-up of the word Promise in thin black script lettering tattooed along a finger, with a gold ring on the next finger and red nail polish.
Promise script on a finger
Black fine line tattoo of the words No Boundaries in script inside a circle of barbed wire on the outer thigh.
No Boundaries lettering in barbed wire on thigh
Two people seen from behind with matching fine line shoulder tattoos in black ink: a sun with script reading You see all my light, and a crescent moon with script reading You accept all my dark.
Matching sun and moon shoulder tattoos
Black and grey fine line tattoo of three staves of sheet music with the word Unlimited between them, placed on the upper back.
Sheet music tattoo across the upper back
Two fine line black script tattoos, one reading amica mea on the upper back and one reading soror mea on the inner forearm.
Latin script words on back and forearm
Black and white photo of a small fine line tattoo of script lettering on a line like a heartbeat, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Fine line script on a heartbeat line
Black fine line script lettering tattooed across the upper back between the shoulder blades of a woman with her hair in a bun, seen from behind in bed.
Fine script lettering across upper back
Fine line black script tattoo reading Fire within with a swirling swash and the numbers 13.1 below, on an ankle.
Script lettering with swash on an ankle
Black lettering tattoo on the upper arm in fine line script, showing a stack of names, several struck through with lines.
Crossed-out names on upper arm
Black fine line script tattoo reading 'everything was beautiful and nothing hurt' across a woman's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote across the shoulder blade
Fine line black ink geometric lettering reading AUDIO VIDEO DISCO in three rows on the upper arm.
Audio Video Disco lettering on upper arm
Close-up of the words love yourself in black fine line script tattooed across a wrist, shown on a forearm.
Love yourself script on the wrist
Black fine line script tattoo reading Bind my wandering heart to Thee running along the inner forearm.
Script quote along a forearm
Two photographs of black script lettering tattoos, one reading love is enough on the upper arm and a smaller fine line script on the forearm.
Script phrase tattoos on upper arm and forearm
Fine line white script tattoo reading Love Life across the inner wrist.
Love Life script on a wrist