Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black handwritten lettering reading "you are art" across a person's inner forearm, near the wrist, in a fine line lettering style.
Handwritten "you are art" on the forearm
Black and grey fine line script reading fri som en fågel with a small swallow on a person's upper back, placed between the shoulder blades.
Script lettering and swallow on upper back
Black handwritten script on a white background reading never let your fear decide your fate, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten quote lettering design
Seven numbered lines of the words in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, set in different script and typeface styles, shown as a lettering design sheet with no body placement.
Seven lettering styles for a short quote
Colour tattoo of purple anemone flowers and a gold heart frame with a turquoise centre and script lettering, on the forearm, in a neo-traditional style.
Purple anemones and gold heart on forearm
Black script lettering reading We All Fall Down Sometimes on skin, with a small scalloped star outline beneath the words.
We All Fall Down Sometimes script lettering
Black and white photo of a woman's upper arm with fine line handwritten script near the shoulder and three thin horizontal bands below it.
Script lettering and lines on upper arm
Fine line drawing of an outstretched hand with poppy flowers, leaves, a moon and an eye motif, and the words trust the path unseen, in black ink with blue accents.
Hand with poppies and lettering
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grey koala holding a pina colada beside a palm tree and banner reading PINA KOALAS, on the top of a foot.
Koala with a pina colada on the foot
Black ink tattoo of a Cheshire Cat grin above the words We're All Mad Here in lettering style, on the wrist.
Cheshire Cat grin and We're All Mad Here lettering
Black ink script lettering reading Perfectly Imperfect, with a ribbon banner under the word Imperfect, drawn as a lettering design on a white background.
Perfectly Imperfect script lettering design
Black and white photo of a fine line script lettering tattoo reading Familie na aan die hart along the ribs, with a hand and shirt at the edge of the frame.
Script phrase along the ribs
Black and grey realistic moon tattoo with the words LA LUNA above it, on the upper arm of a person wearing a dark t-shirt.
Realistic moon and La Luna lettering on upper arm
Black and grey image of two hands holding pistols, with the word VERITAS lettered across the knuckles and fingers and rosary beads wrapped around the wrists.
Veritas lettering on two hands holding pistols
Black script lettering reading There is Beauty in Brokenness across the collarbone, in a fine line lettering style.
Script quote across the collarbone
Black and grey traditional style moth tattoo with shaded wings on the side of a torso, with a partly visible tattoo to the left and white bedding behind.
Black and grey moth on the ribs
Fine black French script tattooed vertically down the centre of a woman's upper back, below her hair bun.
Vertical French script down the spine
Black handwritten-style lettering tattoo on the upper arm reading a quote in quotation marks, with an attribution line beneath it, in a lettering style.
Handwritten quote tattoo on upper arm
Black fine line script tattoo running down the outer upper arm of a person wearing a black lace bralette.
Script lettering along upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a grim reaper holding a black umbrella with raindrops, with the words IT ALWAYS FUCKING RAINS above, on a person's calf.
Grim reaper with umbrella on a calf
Fine line black script tattoo reading what if you fly on the side of a torso, with pink lace lingerie along the bottom edge of the image.
Fine line script reading what if you fly
Black gothic-style lettering reading Dreamer beside a dreamcatcher with feathers and small blue beads on the inner wrist.
Dreamer lettering with dreamcatcher on wrist
Fine line black tattoo of a flower wreath around the words Be Kind to yourself and a small heart, on the inner wrist.
Be Kind to Yourself wreath on wrist
Black script lettering reading Heartless across the finger of a hand with pink nails, set against dark denim.
Heartless script tattoo on a finger
Blue line drawing of a rayed sun with the words You are my sunshine written in script and capitals inside it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
You are my sunshine lettering in a sun
Traditional colour tattoo of a globe wrapped in a red banner reading WANDERER, with a compass rose above, on a forearm.
Globe with Wanderer banner on a forearm
Woman in an orange swimsuit and straw hat, with a small black script lettering tattoo on her upper thigh.
Script tattoo on upper thigh
Black and grey pencil drawing of a pocket watch on a chain with two scroll banners reading time heals and all wounds, a tattoo flash design with no body placement shown.
Pocket watch with chain and banners
Bare legs raised against a pale wall, showing a red rose with dark flowers on one thigh and black script lettering with flowers on the other thigh, in a traditional style.
Rose and script tattoos on raised legs
Neo-traditional style tattoo on a calf showing two cartoon-style figures in jackets above the words I WANT TO BELIEVE, shown in two side-by-side photos.
Cartoon pair with 'I want to believe' on a calf
Close crop of a person in grey shorts showing a small black fine line script tattoo on the outer thigh.
Fine script line tattoo on a thigh
Close photo of a fine-line handwritten script tattoo reading everything I am, placed low on the abdomen above the waistband of patterned pyjamas.
Fine script lettering on lower abdomen
Blue watercolour-style deer tattoo with a Deathly Hallows triangle symbol and the word Always on a woman's shoulder.
Watercolour deer and Deathly Hallows on shoulder
Black and grey tattoo of a raven in flight holding hanging chains with pendants, on the side of a ribcage.
Black and grey raven with chains on ribs
Three die-cut flash-style sticker designs on a grey surface: a guitar with flowers and banner text, a red and white aeroplane, and a pen and harpoon above flowers.
Three flash sticker designs: guitar, plane and harpoon
Colour tattoo on the top of a foot showing the words We're All Mad Here in dark script lettering beside a pink and purple Cheshire Cat, in a lettering style.
We're All Mad Here lettering and Cheshire Cat on a foot
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a hand rising from ripples with a banner reading DON'T LET ME DROWN, in black and grey linework.
Hand rising from water with banner
Gold handwritten script reading 'dont fear.' on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than on skin.
Handwritten 'dont fear.' script design
Black script lettering reading Rise and rise again until lambs become lions, tattooed along the inner forearm.
Script quote tattoo on the forearm
Shirtless torso with black script lettering across the chest, an eagle on the upper chest and neck, and tribal-style blackwork on the shoulder and upper arm.
Script lettering, eagle and tribal chest and arm tattoos
Two matching colour traditional tattoos on forearms, each showing a hand holding a lighter or a joint, with a cannabis leaf, a pink flower and a banner reading BEST or BUDS.
Matching traditional forearm tattoos, lighter and joint
Black script lettering reading Dance like nobody's watching runs across the top of a foot on a red and white bedsheet.
Script quote on the top of a foot
Small fine line tattoo of a pink heart with the word love inside, on the inner upper arm near the elbow.
Small pink heart with love lettering
Black ink tattoo design of an arrow with the words Little Pieces of Hope above a mandala and a fan of feathers, in a blackwork style.
Feathers, mandala and arrow with lettering
Black and grey realism rose with cursive script lettering on the side of a torso, held beside a fan of banknotes.
Black and grey rose and script on ribs
Two matching fine line tattoos reading soulsister with an arrow, one on a forearm and one on a wrist, shown as two hands are held together.
Matching soulsister arrow tattoos on two wrists
Fine line script lettering in dark blue ink on the inner wrist of a woman wearing stacked bracelets.
Small script lettering on the inner wrist
Fine line tattoo of a smiling sloth face with the words LIVE SLOW above and DIE WHENEVER below, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Sloth face and quote on inner forearm