Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Two black script lettering tattoos reading Hopeless and Romantic with small flourishes, one on each ankle, above red canvas sneakers.
Hopeless Romantic script ankle tattoos
Pencil sketch design of an anchor wrapped in a rope and vine, with hibiscus flowers and the word Ohana written beneath it.
Anchor with hibiscus and Ohana script
Black and grey realism portrait tattoo of a face on a thigh, with bat shapes and partial lettering, shown in a two-panel mirror photo.
Greyscale portrait tattoo on thigh
Lettering design with the English lines Two Bodies, One Heart and Two Minds, One Soul above the same meaning in blue Tengwar elvish script.
Two Bodies, One Heart and Tengwar script 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
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading aloha, followed by wave lines, on the forearm.
Aloha script with waves on forearm
Pencil line drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with roses, two lovebirds in an ornate heart frame and a banner reading Hopeless Romantic.
Roses and lovebirds tattoo design
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading There will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears, set across the ribs of a person whose face is not shown.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Two people's forearms side by side showing matching traditional-style tattoos of a shovel and a shaded object, each with a scroll banner carrying lettering, on the inner forearm.
Matching shovel and banner forearm tattoos
Black and grey tattoo of wings above two crossed blades across the upper back, with script lettering on each side of the spine.
Winged blades and script on a back
Flash design of a horned helmeted skull with two purple roses and a cream banner with lettering, in neo-traditional style with speckled shading.
Horned helmet skull with roses and banner
Fine line black ink tattoo of two hands holding a cat's cradle string, with the words NO DAMN CAT above and NO DAMN CRADLE below, on the outer thigh.
Cat's cradle hands with lettering on a thigh
Flat vector arrow design with the words follow your arrow in script along the shaft, purple and black fletching and an arrowhead, on a white background.
Arrow with follow your arrow script
Black and grey realism tattoo on an upper arm and forearm showing a rose, script words and a dove over smoky shading.
Black and grey rose, script and dove on an arm
Fine line black tattoo of angular letters on the inner forearm of a person wearing a white top.
Angular letters on a forearm
Black ink lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, in a hand-lettered script style.
Quote lettering on the inner forearm
Colour tattoo of a sunflower with the words You Are My Sunshine in script above it, on a person's shoulder.
Sunflower with script on a shoulder
Black and grey fine line arrow with leaves and vines running across the back, with the lettering WARR;OR above the shaft.
Arrow and vines with WARR;OR lettering
Black and grey script tattoo reading semper ad meliora on a forearm, photographed in black and white.
Semper ad meliora script on a forearm
Black silhouette of a Canada goose on off-white paper, with white script reading You Silly Goose and swirling ornaments across its body.
Canada goose with You Silly Goose lettering
Black and grey script lettering spelling a word across the back of a hand, with a shaded bow and diamond above it and a crown at the wrist.
Script lettering and bow on the back of a hand
Realistic chest tattoo of a shaded skull over a clock face with red splashes and the words too fast to live, too young to die, in black, grey and red.
Skull and clock across chest
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull with shaded bony shapes across the back of a hand, with small lettering on the fingers.
Realistic skull on the back of a hand
Black and grey lettering on a chest and a forearm covered in wings and florals, with a black cat held in front of the arm and gold chains and a cross pendant.
Black cat held against chest and forearm tattoos
Black spiral tattoo of brick-like tiles on an upper arm, with the words There is no place like home curling around it and HOME set larger beneath.
Spiral brickwork tattoo with home lettering on upper arm
Black script lettering reading "And though she be but little, she is fierce" across the upper chest below the collarbone, in a fine lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black line drawing of a snarling wolf head in traditional style, with banners reading THIS WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING.
Snarling wolf head with banner
Traditional-style flash design of three orange carrots with green tops, wrapped in two banners reading REAL FOOD HAS MUD and NOT BLOOD, with no body placement shown.
Three carrots with banner design
Traditional style colour tattoo of an orange peach with green leaves, a branch and a PEACHY banner, with red flowers, on the upper arm.
Peach with PEACHY banner on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of clouds, a red sun and a banner reading NOTHING BUT THE RAIN, shown across two panels.
Nothing but the rain banner with clouds and sun
Black and grey realism tattoo of a cross containing a bearded face with a crown of thorns, on the upper arm.
Realistic cross with bearded face on upper arm
Circular badge design of a snarling black panther head biting a red gasoline can labelled GASOLINE, with a flame, a sparkle and a water drop on a yellow background.
Panther head with gasoline can badge
Black ink handwritten lettering design on a light background reading a short line of lyrics, with the words sleepwalking, night, lost, broken and right emphasised in larger script.
Handwritten lyric lettering design
Two hands with traditional style tattoos on the backs and fingers, showing a crowned Jesus figure on one hand and a SERVANT HEART banner on the other, with letters across the fingers.
Traditional hand tattoos with Jesus and lettering
Two people seen from behind on a beach, each with a black script tattoo reading forever on the lower back, with sand dusted on their skin.
Forever script tattoos on two lower backs
Black script lettering tattoo running along the inner forearm of a person with a bracelet on the wrist.
Script lettering on a forearm
Traditional-style tattoo of a red and grey Chi Rho symbol within a black laurel wreath, with alpha and omega letters below, on a lower leg.
Chi Rho and laurel wreath on a calf
Black fine line script tattoo reading Once upon a time, with small swirl flourishes, on a forearm.
Once upon a time script on a forearm
Black ink drawing of a UFO beaming up a brain from a cracked skull, with the words LOSING MY MIND beneath, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
UFO lifting a brain from a skull design
Pencil drawing of a planchette-shaped tattoo design with a shaded eye, a sun and a crescent moon with a face, a crystal, and the words Speak to me no more.
Planchette with eye, sun and moon design
Two fine line script tattoos reading sunshine phrases, one along the ribs and one on the inner forearm, in black ink.
Matching sunshine script on ribs and forearm
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
Grey skull tattoo with dripping teardrops and a banner above it, on the outer upper arm of a person in a grey t-shirt.
Skull with banner on upper arm
Colour drawing of the words BE YOU, NOT THEM in ornate orange lettering, decorated with flowers, a mushroom, bluebirds, a skull and turtles, with red swirling linework.
Be you, not them 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
Six-panel photo of a black and grey arm sleeve tattoo with coordinate text and vintage stamps, shown on the forearm and upper arm.
Coordinates and vintage stamps on an arm sleeve
Colour tattoo of two animated women holding hands on the thigh, with short lettering and a question mark beside them.
Two cartoon characters holding hands on a thigh
Black and grey tattoo of a revolver with the words Never Look Back on its barrel, flanked by two roses and leaves on a forearm.
Revolver and roses on a forearm