Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Woman in a white graphic tee with a black and grey Om mandala print, showing a black fine line arrow and lettering tattoo on one forearm and a red floral tattoo on the other arm.
Lettering and floral tattoos on forearms
Close photo of black fine script lettering reading Moment on the inner forearm, with a pendant necklace and a bare shoulder visible.
Script lettering on a forearm
Two fine line black script tattoos, one reading amica mea on the upper back and one reading soror mea on the inner forearm.
Latin script words on back and forearm
Two black script lettering designs on a white background, one in flowing copperplate style and one in a looser handwritten style, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Two lettering designs in black script
Black and white photo of a small fine line tattoo of script lettering on a line like a heartbeat, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Fine line script on a heartbeat line
Coloured flash design of a sword, pipe, staff and cloak among leaves, with a yellow banner reading Home is behind the world ahead, in a neo-traditional lettering style.
Banner lettering with sword and pipe design
Black and grey script lettering reading Bleed with me and you will forever be my brother, with a flourish beneath it, across the upper back.
Script quote across upper back
Black and grey wing tattoo across the ribs and an ornamental mandala-style tattoo on the back of the hand, with vertical lettering down the outer thigh.
Wing and mandala tattoos on a woman at the beach
Colour tattoo of a white cartoon cat with a pink bow and blue eyes above black script reading Because I'm a lady, on the thigh.
Cartoon cat with script quote on thigh
Black fine line script lettering tattooed across the upper back between the shoulder blades of a woman with her hair in a bun, seen from behind in bed.
Fine script lettering across upper back
Small black Roman numeral lettering tattooed on the inner upper arm of a person in warm sunlight.
Roman numerals on an upper arm
Black script lettering reading Life Goes On, with soft grey shading, tattooed across the back of a hand.
Life Goes On script across the back of a hand
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo on skin reading "Where words fail, music speaks." in a simple typeface.
Text tattoo reading Where words fail, music speaks
Fine line black script tattoo reading Fire within with a swirling swash and the numbers 13.1 below, on an ankle.
Script lettering with swash on an ankle
Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh showing a teal rose, a yellow banner reading LIKE HOME, a red shoe and the words THERE'S NO PLACE in black lettering.
Teal rose and ruby slipper on a thigh
Back view of a woman in a shop aisle with a black and grey eagle tattoo on her upper back and the words MARRIED WITH 22 KIDS in lettering across her lower back.
Eagle and lettering on a lower back
Black and grey dove with outstretched wings carrying an olive branch, with the script words Fearfully and wonderfully made beneath it.
Dove with olive branch and script
Colour lettering tattoo reading Rebel Rebel in teal and purple script, with a red and blue lightning bolt and small diamonds, on a limb.
Rebel Rebel script with lightning bolt
Black fine line script tattoo reading 'everything was beautiful and nothing hurt' across a woman's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote across the shoulder blade
Close photo of a small black Hebrew lettering tattoo on the inner wrist, in a fine lettering style, with the hand raised against a pale background.
Small Hebrew lettering on the inner wrist
Two black script lettering tattoos reading Stay and Gold with flourishes, one on each ankle, shown with rolled denim and black canvas trainers.
Stay and Gold script ankle tattoos
Black ink lettering tattoo on the inner forearm imitating a leather label, reading a stylised logo with the words 100% LEATHER and MADE IN PORTUGAL.
Leather label tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey script tattoo reading music is what feelings sound like, framed by swirling flourishes, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote with swirls on upper back
Lettering tattoo reading RECKLESS in black ink on the lower lip, shown with the mouth open and a hand resting near the chin.
Reckless lettering on lower lip
Red handwritten lettering reading I must not tell lies on the back of a hand, in a lettering style with a small spiked mark before the text.
Handwritten quote on the back of a hand
Coloured pencil drawing of a clenched fist with red nails and a lettering design reading 'be kind to yourself' with a small heart on the wrist, in a lettering style.
Fist with 'be kind to yourself' wrist design
Fine line black ink geometric lettering reading AUDIO VIDEO DISCO in three rows on the upper arm.
Audio Video Disco lettering on upper arm
Close-up of the words love yourself in black fine line script tattooed across a wrist, shown on a forearm.
Love yourself script on the wrist
Two matching black tattoos on a pair of forearms, each showing an Assassin's Creed style emblem with the lettering Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
Matching Assassin's Creed quote tattoos on forearms
Black fine line script tattoo reading Bind my wandering heart to Thee running along the inner forearm.
Script quote along a forearm
Black and white photo of a man in a white vest holding a kitten, with script lettering across his chest and black ornamental tattoos on his forearm.
Chest script and kitten in black and grey
Black and white lettering design in the shape of a rabbit standing upright, with the words I must become the lion hearted girl set in hand-drawn script.
Rabbit silhouette filled with lettering
Two photographs of black script lettering tattoos, one reading love is enough on the upper arm and a smaller fine line script on the forearm.
Script phrase tattoos on upper arm and forearm
Large unfilled black outline lettering in a blocky graffiti style across a person's upper back, with some reddening around the lines.
Large outlined block lettering across upper back
Realistic black and grey shaded door panels with red REDRUM lettering across a limb in a close crop of a tattoo.
Redrum lettering over shaded doors
Fine line white script tattoo reading Love Life across the inner wrist.
Love Life script on a wrist
Black ink drawing of a planchette design with a central eye, YES, NO and GOODBYE lettering and dotwork shading on a white sheet.
Planchette with eye and YES NO GOODBYE lettering
Colour tattoo of a yellow sunflower with a grey centre and the words 'there's no place like home' in script above it, on an arm.
Sunflower with a 'no place like home' quote
Black fine line mountain range above the word Wanderlust in flowing script, tattooed on a foot.
Wanderlust script above mountains on a foot
Shirtless man with a black NY cap covering his face, showing traditional style roses, a heart and script lettering on his chest, abdomen and full sleeve tattoos on both arms.
Traditional roses and lettering across chest and arms
Close view of black script lettering tattooed on the back of a hand, with a dark shirt sleeve and a white shirt label visible beside it.
Black script lettering on the back of a hand
Fine line black script running down a forearm, with a small sun tattoo on the back of the hand and a small arrow on the wrist.
Script lettering and small sun tattoos on forearms
Drawn tattoo design of a shaded rose beside ornate script reading love me, with a line of serif text reading That's all I ask of you, on a white background.
Love me script with shaded rose design
Flash sheet of three botanical designs: a coloured rose bouquet, a navy wreath with Stop and Smell the Roses lettering, and a floral heart with Joie de Vivre script.
Floral bouquet, rose wreath lettering and floral heart
Black and grey photograph of an infinity symbol tattoo on the inner wrist, with the words live the life you love in mixed lettering styles.
Live the life you love infinity wrist tattoo
Flash sheet of six black line infinity symbol designs, several with lettering such as faith, Strength, LOVE and HOPE, drawn on a white background.
Infinity symbol tattoo flash designs
Black linework lettering spelling the word AWAY, rotated sideways, on the sole of a foot, in a plain sans-serif style.
Word AWAY lettering on the sole of a foot
Black and grey flash design of a banner reading Life's A Gamble above playing cards, dice, a classic car and flames.
Life's a Gamble with cards, dice and car