Lettering tattoo ideas

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

What will it cost? Try the tattoo cost calculator
Two hands showing traditional red rose tattoos with green leaves and chain drapes ending in a heart pendant on the back of each hand, with script on the fingers.
Traditional roses with chain drapes on hands
Traditional-style design of Hello Kitty with a pink heart, a banner reading Hello Kitty, roses and leaves, shown as a sticker on a white background.
Hello Kitty heart and banner tattoo design
Traditional colour tattoo on the top of a foot showing a dripping drain cover, a banner reading IT'S OUR TIME and DOWN HERE, and two red flowers with green leaves.
Drain banner and red flowers on a foot
Traditional-style flash drawing of a dagger with a chain link hilt, wrapped in banners reading BLOOD, SWEAT and GEARS, with a gear at the tip and a CYCLOLOGY banner below.
Dagger wrapped in ribbons with gears and chain
Traditional-style colour tattoo on a calf showing a stormtrooper helmet, a grey Death Star, a pink galaxy, green leaves and banners reading We're all fine here now and Thank you, how are you.
Stormtrooper, Death Star and banners on a calf
Traditional style colour tattoo on the thigh showing a skull with a dagger behind it and a pink banner reading DEATH BEFORE DECAF, with green leaves at the sides.
Skull and dagger banner on thigh
Traditional tattoo of a red and black striped lighthouse with a banner reading But Always a Guiding Light, set on the forearm.
Lighthouse with banner on a forearm
Round badge showing a red traditional-style swallow holding a banner that reads MOTHER, above a red flower with green leaves.
Swallow and MOTHER banner design
Traditional-style tattoo design of a dark heart with a ROTTEN banner, a crossed baseball bat, purple and teal roses and lips, shown on a grey textured poster background with no body placement.
Heart tattoo design with bat and roses
Traditional flash design of a red rose and a blue rose above a banner reading there's no place like home, with red shoes and a star, shown on a plain background with no body placement.
Roses and ruby slippers banner flash
Colour traditional tattoo on an upper arm of a woman in glasses and a dark robe with a lace collar, framed by a laurel wreath and a banner reading SUPREME.
Portrait with laurel wreath on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo on the back of a hand showing a grey umbrella with yellow lightning bolts and blue raindrops, inside a circle of black lettering that reads you are the smell before the rain.
Umbrella and lightning with quote on the hand
Two drawn sugar skulls, one wearing a top hat and one with roses and a veil, above the words till and death, in a traditional flash design.
Twin sugar skulls with 'till death' lettering
Traditional-style flash design of a man in profile holding a small vial, with red roses, a gas mask and two banners with lettering.
Man in profile with roses and banner flash
Black traditional-style tattoos on an upper arm, with a block-lettered quote reading NO BULLSHIT DO REAL HAVE PASSION STAY THIRSTY, an anatomical heart, a sunburst and a banner.
Quote, anatomical heart and banner on upper arm
Black and grey traditional sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing skulls, roses, a clock, a microphone and banners with lettering.
Skull, rose and banner sleeve on an arm
Black and grey traditional nautical designs, including a ship, star, compass and lighthouse, shown as flash sheets and temporary tattoos on a thigh.
Nautical temporary tattoo designs on a thigh
Full colour traditional tattoo of a gold anchor with chain, a silver USN lettering and a naval emblem over an American flag on the upper arm.
US Navy anchor over American flag
Traditional coloured tattoo of a raptor head with the words Clever Girl beneath it, on the forearm.
Raptor head with Clever Girl lettering
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo of a bird on a branch, with a ribbon banner spiralling down the forearm bearing a quote.
Bird and quote banner on a forearm
Traditional style flash drawing of a sonic screwdriver wrapped in banners that read 'The Doctor will see you now', in grey, gold, blue and purple on a black background.
Sonic screwdriver with 'The Doctor will see you now' banner
Colour traditional tattoo on a limb of a cartoon figure with a bare belly beside a red rose, under the slogan MY BODY MY RULES.
Cartoon character and rose with slogan
Black and grey realistic bee tattoo with shaded wings and the words 'You're the bee's knees but so am I' above and below it, on a calf.
Bee with pun lettering on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a blue and red sneaker with trailing laces and sparkles on the thigh, with the words Zig A Zig Ahhh written beneath.
Sneaker with Zig A Zig Ahhh lettering
Traditional style tattoo design showing a blue gem, a red bomb with a lit fuse and green leaves and vines, with banners reading Sirens who slay together and Stay together, shown on a navy phone case.
Sirens who slay together tattoo design on phone case
Traditional style tattoo of a woman with yellow flowers in her dark hair and an orange top, with the word divine written below, on the ankle.
Woman portrait with flowers and the word divine
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing an anchor, clasped hands, crossed arrows, a rope, flowers, an envelope and banners with lettering.
Traditional flash sheet with anchor, hands and banners
Black and grey traditional anchor tattoo on a forearm, with two banners reading SINK OR SWIM and leaf shapes above a ring at the top of the shaft.
Anchor with Sink or Swim banners on a forearm
Colour traditional-style tattoo on a thigh showing a cartoon woman in a red polka dot bandana and glasses, flexing one arm in front of an orange sun, with a red rose below and a quote in black
Cartoon flexing woman and rose on a thigh
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a snow globe with an aurora sky, pine trees and snowflakes on an upper arm, with the word Dreamer beside it.
Snow globe with aurora and the word Dreamer
Traditional-style sugar skull tattoo with a pompadour hairstyle, a cigarette and red flowers on an upper arm, with the words Rockin N Rollin and N What Not.
Sugar skull with pompadour on upper arm
Two arms flexed toward the camera, each with a colour pizza slice tattoo with pepperoni and HOME-SLICE lettering in traditional style, with roses and banners on the upper arm.
Matching pizza slice tattoos on two forearms
Traditional style flash design of a black kraken with yellow eyes wrapping around a sailing ship, with a red sun and banners reading Kraken's Revenge on a starred cream background.
Kraken's Revenge sailing ship design
Black ink flash sheet with six traditional-style designs: a crescent moon with clouds, a rose with a banner, a dagger with a banner, a silhouette and skull, a sun with a banner, and a heart inside a
Six black ink flash designs on a sheet
Colour traditional tattoo of an ornate key wrapped in a red-outlined ribbon reading ALOHOMORA, with four sparkle stars, on an upper arm.
Key and Alohomora banner on upper arm
Traditional colour tattoo of an anatomical heart with blue and red vessels and banners reading 'You are the blood in my veins' on an upper arm.
Anatomical heart with banner scroll
Traditional tattoo on a forearm of a sailor kissing a red-haired woman inside a gold rope heart, with a black and grey ship and the word FAMIGLIA above.
Sailor kissing in a rope heart on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a pink and teal dagger with red hearts and a banner reading Fight Like A Girl, on a lower leg.
Dagger and banner on a calf
Colour tattoo of the Hogwarts school crest with a lion, a snake and ribbon banners, shown on the forearm.
Hogwarts crest with banners on forearm
Black and grey flash drawing of a pizza slice with dripping cheese, hearts and an I LOVE AFFAIR banner, in a traditional style, with no body placement shown.
I Love Affair pizza slice flash design
Traditional flash design of a studded cylindrical object with a teal and red centre, wrapped in a yellow and brown banner reading NEVER ENOUGH.
Never Enough banner on a studded cylinder
Traditional style colour tattoo of a pizza slice with pepperoni and dripping cheese, with the words Stay Cheesy arched above it, on a limb.
Pizza slice with Stay Cheesy lettering
Colour traditional tattoo of a red lipstick and a scalloped heart with teal flowers and a banner reading uh as if, on a forearm.
Lipstick and heart on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a swallow in flight over a red heart pierced by an arrow, with the words I'll turn my back and let myself live, on a lower leg.
Swallow, heart and arrow in a traditional banner
A coloured traditional-style tattoo sleeve on an upper arm, with blue roses and a banner reading LOVE HATE, while a man in a burgundy suit holds the arm.
Blue rose and banner sleeve on upper arm
Traditional style colour tattoo on the back of a hand showing a dagger through a red heart with a blue banner reading ROMANTIC and purple flowers.
Dagger, heart and banner on the hand
Red and black tattoo of the cartoon character Betty Boop in a red dress, surrounded by kiss marks and stars, on a lower leg.
Betty Boop with kiss marks and stars on a calf
Traditional-style flash drawing of a black sleeve cuff holding bacon, with an anchor on the wrist and the words Bringing Home The Bacon around it, painted on watercolour paper.
Bringing home the bacon flash design