Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black and white ink flash design of a perfume atomiser, lipstick and hand-lettered text reading Let me get my girly shit, with small heart labels.
Perfume atomiser, lipstick and lettering flash
Black and grey pencil drawing of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, two shaded roses and a TIMELESS banner, presented as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses with TIMELESS banner
Close-up of fine line black script lettering that appears to read Because I say so, on the side of a hip above dark lace underwear.
Script lettering on the hip
Black script quote reading 'Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live' on one forearm, with a small outline heart on the other forearm.
Script quote and heart on forearms
Black handwritten script lettering reading Just a girl who decided to go for it, on a plain off-white background with a hatched strip across the top.
Script quote, Just a girl who decided to go for it
Close photo of a black script tattoo reading live.out.loud across the inner wrist, with green painted nails and a silver watch strap.
Live.out.loud script on the wrist
Colour neo-trad style tattoo of a cartoon owl perched on an open book in front of an orange moon, on the upper arm.
Cartoon owl on an open book with a moon
Two forearms side by side with fine black script tattoos on the inner arms, reading Um coração on the left and Um amor on the right, in a black and white photograph.
Um coração and um amor forearm script
Flash sheet of black ink infinity symbol designs, each with a single handwritten script word such as love, family, music or faith, on white paper.
Infinity symbol lettering flash sheet
Black lettering tattoo reading FRIENDS with a small coloured dot between each letter, on the inside of a wrist.
FRIENDS lettering on a wrist
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a scalloped heart reading BE BRAVE, framed by two flowers and dark leaves, on a forearm.
Be brave heart with flowers on a forearm
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
Colour tattoo on the back of a witch hat, black script reading Defy Gravity, and a wand ending in a yellow star, with scattered black stars.
Defy Gravity script with witch hat and wand
Fine line black barcode tattoo with the word HUMAN beneath it, placed on the inside of a wrist.
Barcode with HUMAN on a wrist
Close-up photograph of thin black fine line Greek lettering reading φαμιλψ on skin, with the placement on the body not clear from the image.
Greek lettering tattoo on skin
Black and grey realism tattoos of four women's portraits above Stay Gold lettering in blackletter across both thighs.
Four portraits and Stay Gold lettering on thighs
Black and white photo of a muscular man's back with a large grim reaper tattoo with a scythe, arched lettering reading Sons of Anarchy and California, and arm tattoos.
Grim reaper and lettering across a back
Line drawing flash design of three lilac-shaded roses with grey leaves beside the lettering "We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness" and the numerals I-XVII-MMXV, shown on a white
Roses with quote lettering 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
Woman seen from behind with a thin fine line script tattoo running vertically down the centre of her back.
Script line tattoo down the spine
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a calf showing a tent, pine trees and stars inside a crescent moon, with the word HOMESICK arched above.
Homesick tent and moon on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a cartoon boy with a scowling face inside a red scalloped heart with banners, on the upper thigh.
Cartoon character in heart banner on thigh
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a lower leg showing mountains, pine trees and a crescent moon inside a circular compass frame, with the words 'You are home' beneath.
Mountain and moon badge with 'You are home' lettering
Colour tattoo of pizza slices forming a peace symbol with the words Give Pizza Chance around the edge, in a neo-trad style on an ankle.
Pizza slices and Give Pizza Chance
Fine line black script word inside an outlined heart with an arrow, tattooed on an ankle, with a matching tattoo on a second ankle beside it.
Matching heart and arrow script ankle tattoos
Colour lettering tattoo reading Mischief Managed in a circle, with a purple smoke trail, green and yellow stars and a wand on an arm.
Mischief Managed lettering with purple smoke trail and wand
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a pin-up boxer in gloves between two banners reading Nobody's and Girl, on the outer thigh.
Pin-up boxer tattoo on a thigh
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
Fine line black infinity symbol on a forearm, with the script words hakuna matata written inside the loop.
Infinity symbol with script wording on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a blue TARDIS police box with lit yellow windows, with the script word allons-y beneath it, on the outer calf.
TARDIS tattoo with allons-y script on a calf
Black ink lettering design reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with three bats flying above the words on a white background.
Too weird to live, too rare to die lettering with bats
Black line drawing flash sheet of many cartoon owls in varied patterns, with the words OWLS and LOVE in block lettering, shown on white paper.
Owl flash sheet with lettering
Black and white photo of the word choice in fine line script lettering on the forearm, near a woven bracelet.
Script word choice on the forearm
Two bare feet, each with a matching black cursive lettering tattoo arranged in a heart outline across the top of the foot.
Matching heart lettering tattoos on two feet
Realistic fine line humpback whale tattoo in grey ink on the side of a torso, with the words Pro memoria written above it.
Humpback whale with script on the ribs
Two colour tattoos in a neo-trad style: a sugar skull portrait with blue hair on the calf and a sugar skull portrait with flaming red hair on the forearm, with script lettering below.
Sugar skull portraits on calf and forearm
Dark script lettering reading through every dark night, there is a brighter day, tattooed across the upper chest in a black lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black script lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of a woman's back, photographed from behind in an open-back dress.
Script lettering down the spine
Black and grey fine line tattoo of moon phases running down the inside of a forearm, with small labels for waning crescent, full moon and waxing crescent.
Moon phases sequence on a forearm
Hand-drawn black lettering design in a sketchbook reading 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now and this bird you cannot change, with decorative letterforms and shading.
Lettering design with a bird lyric
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
Dark blue-black silhouettes of birds in flight rise across the upper back toward the shoulder, with the script words Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly beneath them.
Flock of birds and script quote on upper back
Black and grey traditional swallow tattoo on the upper back, with a banner reading it's just a spark but its enough beside a starburst.
Swallow with spark quote on upper back
Fine line black tattoo of a teepee with the word HOME beneath it, a crescent moon, a ringed planet and stars on the calf.
Teepee, planets and HOME on a calf
Collage of six colour cartoon tattoos from The Simpsons, with lettering in banners and speech bubbles, shown on skin in traditional style.
Six Simpsons character tattoos in a collage
Black handwritten lettering on an upper arm reads its is my life with the attribution Jon Bovi beneath it.
Handwritten quote on upper arm
Black line flash sheet of lightning bolts, clouds and the words Lightning and Thunderbolt, shown as designs with no body placement.
Lightning bolt and cloud flash sheet