Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Pencil sketch flash design of a Mad Hatter top hat with a pocket watch, roses, cake and the words We're all mad here, in a neo-traditional style.
We're all mad here Mad Hatter design
Traditional-style colour tattoo of a cartoon character with glasses and a dark bob haircut, framed by teal leaves and a banner reading UGHHH, on a leg.
Cartoon character and UGHHH banner
Circular flash design of two clasped hands and two small hearts inside a red and cream ring of lettering, on a dark navy background.
Clasped hands in a circular lettering ring
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 script lettering reading Walk by Faith with a small cross, tattooed on the side of a foot near the arch.
Walk by Faith script on the foot
Fine line black script lettering with two small swallows in flight on the forearm.
Script lettering and two swallows on forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a pizza slice with pepperoni and dripping cheese, with a banner reading That's Amore, shown on skin.
Pizza slice with That's Amore banner
Black fine line script tattoos on a forearm: an infinity symbol with three small birds and a name above Roman numerals, and a larger Carpe Diem lettering piece with Roman numerals below.
Infinity, name and Carpe Diem script on forearm
Black ink line drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds and sunburst rays, in a traditional style.
Hot air balloon and journey banners flash
Traditional colour tattoo of red hockey gloves with a maple leaf on the cuff and a banner reading Droppin' Mitts, on a lower leg.
Red hockey gloves with banner on a leg
Traditional style colour tattoo of a clenched fist gripping a wrench, with the words Working Class, red stars and flowers, on a limb.
Working Class fist and wrench
Black lettering tattoo in a non-Latin script running vertically down the forearm.
Vertical non-Latin script on a forearm
Colour Neo-trad tattoo on the thigh showing a blue TARDIS police box with glowing windows, a banner reading ALLONS-Y and red roses.
TARDIS and roses on a thigh
Black fine line script tattoo reading Carpe Diem with three small bird silhouettes, placed on the upper back near the shoulder.
Carpe Diem script with birds on upper back
Colour realism tattoo on the ribs showing a portrait in mirrored sunglasses with a cigarette, red Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas lettering and black bats.
Fear and Loathing portrait on the ribs
Black hand-lettered script reading The struggle is part of the story on a pale pink background, a Lettering design for a tattoo.
Script lettering: The struggle is part of the story
Colour tattoo of a perched songbird inside a floral wreath with the words Free Indeed above it, on the forearm.
Songbird and floral wreath with Free Indeed
Traditional colour tattoo of a postcard with a log cabin, mountains and red flowers, reading wish you were here, on a forearm.
Wish you were here postcard on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a red chainsaw with red blood splatter and the word GROOVY in black lettering on a forearm.
Chainsaw and blood splatter with Groovy lettering
Colour tattoo of a four-quadrant house crest with a gold outline and black linework, in red, yellow, green and blue, on the forearm, with script lettering above it.
Hogwarts house crest on an arm
Two forearms raised in thumbs up, each with a navy oval badge reading it's AWESOME time in white lettering, lettering style, on the forearm.
Matching thumbs up badge tattoos on forearms
Black and white photo of a black fine line Bowie logo and italic script tattoo on the inner forearm, with a black lace bra and dark jeans visible beside it.
Bowie logo and script on a forearm
Colourful tattoo of an elephant covered in swirl patterns, with a pink and orange flower and the script words Forever With No Exchanges, shown on skin.
Swirl-patterned elephant with script
Traditional style tattoo on a thigh of an orange skateboard breaking out of a black and grey television with the words GO OUTSIDE, with a coloured figure tattoo below.
Skateboard bursting from a TV on a thigh
Close photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Wanderlust with a looping underline, on the inner wrist of a hand held in a loose fist.
Wanderlust script on the inner wrist
Black linework tattoo of a police box outline on the upper arm, with a block of capitalised lettering quoting nine hundred years of time and space.
Police box quote on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman's face on a calf, with lettering on the thigh and a winged design on the hip, shown on a bed.
Black and grey portrait tattoo on a leg
Black ink line drawing of a heart made of leaf veins, with the word DAD formed from leaves, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Heart of leaves spelling DAD
Red biohazard symbol with blue-fletched arrows crossing it and black lettering reading Fight the dead and Fear the living, tattooed on the side of the torso.
Biohazard and crossed arrows slogan tattoo
Close photo of a line of black cursive script tattoo running up a man's forearm, with a dark wristwatch and green top visible.
Script quote on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Bad Wolf, with a blue TARDIS with a yellow lantern in place of the letter d, tattooed on skin in a lettering style.
Bad Wolf script with a blue TARDIS
Black ink line drawing of a four-line ribbon banner with hand-drawn lettering and hatched shading on the folds, shown as a flash design on textured paper.
Ribbon banner with four lines of lettering
Black lettering reading 'We are what we pretend to be' with a small asterisk below, tattooed on a person's upper back near the shoulder.
Handwritten quote tattoo on the shoulder
Black and white flash design of an ornate planchette with a central eye, sun, moon and stars, lettered OUIJA and AS ABOVE SO BELOW.
Ouija planchette with eye and celestial motifs
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a tattooed mermaid holding an artist's palette, with a squirrel playing a guitar and a banner reading she's a rose, she's a pearl, set against stars
Mermaid with palette, squirrel and banner
Two photographs of black and grey tattoos showing a heart padlock and a skeleton key with chain, each paired with the script words Always there.
Heart padlock and skeleton key with Always there
Black dotwork tattoo of a pair of sycamore seeds joined at a short stem, on the outer arm, with partial lettering tattooed at the upper right.
Sycamore seed tattoo on arm
Pale yellow script lettering reading Twist and Shout, surrounded by looping fine line flourishes on a dark charcoal background.
Twist and Shout script lettering with flourishes
Fine line black script tattoo arranged in a ring on the upper back of a person wearing a dark top.
Circular script ring on upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading THIS IS LOVE in bold block capitals, with JOHN 4:10 in smaller text beside it, on a forearm.
THIS IS LOVE lettering on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a man's face with a black glove and backpack equipment inside a blue angular frame, on the calf.
Man portrait with black glove on calf
Black and grey realism tattoo of an owl face inside a postage stamp design on the upper arm.
Owl portrait in a postage stamp
Black and white photo of two hands held together, each wrist showing a small black Roman numeral tattoo in a serif lettering style on the forearm.
Roman numeral tattoos on two wrists
Pen drawing of an arrow design with the words follow your and Arrow on a kraft card with a purple and turquoise watercolour wash, suitable as a tattoo flash sketch.
Arrow design with script on kraft card
Colour burger tattoo and script lettering on a person's forearm and upper arm, with a second small tattoo on the lower right arm, worn beside a blue ringer t-shirt.
Burger and script tattoos on arms
Black fine line geometric symbol with circles and lorem ipsum text tattooed on the inner wrist.
Geometric symbol and lorem ipsum text on a wrist
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line quote on a lower leg, shown against a wooden floor.
Script quote tattoo on a lower leg
Clear bag of Note to Self temporary tattoo designs showing black line drawings of flowers, lettering, arrows and a bird, held in a hand.
Note to Self temporary tattoo designs in a packet