Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional-style flash design of a gold key and lock with teal roses, green leaves and pale banners reading Darling You'll be okay.
Key and lock with roses and banners
Outline tattoo on an upper arm showing a city skyline above script reading There's no place like home, with red-shaded flowers below.
City skyline and script lettering on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of three banners reading SLOTH LOVE CHUNK above a bitten chunk of food, with red and blue shapes, on the inner upper arm.
Sloth Love Chunk banners on upper arm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of an eagle with a United States flag, an anchor and a banner reading U.S.N., on the upper arm.
Eagle, flag and anchor on an upper arm
Black and white photo of a shirtless man with black and grey script lettering on his chest, neck and hand tattoos, and realism-style sleeve tattoos on both arms.
Script lettering on chest with sleeve tattoos
Black and grey stippled drawing of an anchor wrapped in two banners reading Reckless and Brave, held up on a white card in a hand.
Anchor with Reckless and Brave banners
Black and grey realism tattoo of a rose breaking out of a coin with a torn edge, shown on a limb, with the word ONE on the coin.
Realistic rose within a coin design
Fine line script tattoo reading expecto patronum in dark ink along the upper arm, just past a blue sleeve.
Expecto patronum script on upper arm
Two black tattoos, each an ornate anchor with script lettering: love is patient on a forearm, and love is kind on the lower back.
Matching anchor tattoos with love is patient and love is
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a grey baby goat in front of a rainbow and pink clouds, with the words OH MY GOAT beneath, on the thigh.
Baby goat with rainbow on a thigh
Black fine line script tattoo reading Faith with an arrow running through it, on the inner forearm.
Faith script and arrow on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of a man's head in a glass jar with red and orange flame-style lettering, shown on a limb.
Man's head in a jar with flaming lettering
Black line drawing of two swallows and a dagger, with a banner reading Crochet or Die, in a traditional flash style.
Swallows and dagger with Crochet or Die banner
Realistic grey lipstick tattoo with a red tip on the middle finger, above red script lettering across the hand, shown on a light-skinned hand with red nails.
Lipstick and red script on a hand
Full back tattoo in bold colour with the word Boston, a roaring bear, Red Sox, Bruins and Celtics motifs and a Patriots figure, shown on a man's back.
Boston sports back piece with bear and team mascots
Black and grey realism tattoo of the Deathly Hallows symbol on a folded cloth, ringed by the words 'The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death', on the upper back.
Deathly Hallows on a cloth with circular quote
Traditional style tattoo of a crescent moon with a face, a gold star and the words Sleepy Head in script on a forearm.
Crescent moon with face and star on a forearm
Fine line black script lettering reading The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow, tattooed across the lower back above a grey waistband.
Quote tattoo across the lower back
Black script lettering reading Trust your struggle across the upper chest below the collarbone, in a lettering style.
Script lettering along a collarbone
Black and white photo of a black script tattoo reading Never Again on the back of a neck, with a strap visible below it.
Never Again script tattoo on the neck
Traditional style anchor tattoo wrapped in rope on the forearm, with the words Hope Anchors the Soul in blackletter lettering and small red gems.
Traditional anchor with rope and lettering
Black and grey realistic skull with roses inside overlapping geometric triangles on a forearm, with the word Believe on the wrist, shown beside its flash design.
Skull and roses in triangles on a forearm
Black blackwork tattoo on a forearm of marching soldier silhouettes forming a silver fern leaf, with the words Lest We Forget beneath.
Soldiers silhouette on fern leaf
Traditional style flash design of a pin-up woman with her arms behind her head, framed by red roses and a banner reading Veronica Lodge, on a blue background.
Pin-up with roses and name banner
Black and grey realism tattoo across a man's back and shoulder showing a hockey mask, a bladed glove, a doll face, chains and a knife, with quotes in the design.
Horror film characters across back and shoulder
Traditional style tattoo of a black vintage telephone with red flowers and green leaves, above the words The Jerk Store Called, on a lower leg above a trainer.
Telephone and flowers on a lower leg
Black and white photo of the words BE THE CHANGE in black lettering tattooed on the inner wrist, with beaded bracelets worn above and below it.
Be the change lettering on a wrist
Black and grey guillotine tattoo reading Keep your chin up beside a gallows with noose reading Hang in there, both on a lower leg.
Guillotine and gallows tattoos on lower legs
Traditional style tattoo of a red heart with a white banner reading MOM, flanked by orange flowers and green leaves, on the upper arm near the shoulder.
Heart banner and flowers on a shoulder
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a ship's wheel enclosing a sailing ship, a flower below, and the words DARLIN IM NOT above and COMIN HOME below.
Ship's wheel and flower sketch with lettering
Black script lettering reading Hello Sweetie with a small red bow beneath it, tattooed on the side of the ribs.
Hello Sweetie script with red bow
Woman seen from behind with a large colour back tattoo of flowers, leaves and script, and a dark ornate design, placed across the upper and lower back.
Full back tattoo with script and florals
Black and grey pencil drawing of the word Love in ornate script with sketched flourishes, leaves and swirls, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Ornate script design spelling Love
Black and grey realism tattoo of a smiling man with swept-back hair and the words The King in script, on the upper thigh.
Black and grey portrait with script on thigh
Black lettering reading accio adventure in a serif typeface runs along the inner forearm of a hand resting on a map of India.
Accio adventure lettering on a wrist over a map
Fine line black tattoo of a small daisy sprig tied with a bow on the forearm, with script lettering above it on the same arm.
Daisy sprig and script on a forearm
Two forearms with blue script lettering: Fearless with a teal ribbon on the upper arm, and Hope with a teal ribbon beneath it.
Fearless and Hope ribbon tattoos on forearms
Black and grey tattoo of a skeletal woman with flowers in her hair and a crown, inside a circle of lettering, on a limb.
Skeletal woman in a circle with light bulbs
Two temporary tattoos on a child's wrists, a red circular design on the left and a blue striped design with a circle on the right, against a speckled concrete ground.
Two temporary tattoos on a child's wrists
Nautical flash design of white lettering on a navy background, with a crossed anchor, lifebuoy, flags and banners in a traditional style.
Nautical lettering with anchor and lifebuoy
Black and grey realism tattoo of orchids and cursive script including the word Love, across the upper arm and shoulder.
Orchids and script on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of two pastel conversation heart sweets reading SHUT UP and GO AWAY, with sparkles and teal flowers, in a neo-traditional style on skin.
Shut up and go away conversation hearts
Black and grey traditional style tattoos side by side on a leg, showing a Dalek with an Exterminate banner and a Cyberman head with a script banner.
Dalek and Cyberman tattoos on a leg
Black fine line cursive script lettering runs diagonally up the inner forearm, with a hand, a handwritten page and a mug of tea beside it.
Fine line script lettering on forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a running wolf pierced by arrows, with the words WINTER IS COMIN beneath it, on the calf.
Running wolf with arrows and lettering on a calf
Black and white photo of a fine line cursive script lettering tattoo running diagonally across a woman's shoulder and upper back.
Cursive script lettering across a shoulder
Close-up of the word 'saved' in thin black fine line script tattooed on the inner forearm.
Fine line script word 'saved' on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of an anatomical heart pierced by a dagger, with a banner reading Live through the pain, on the upper arm.
Dagger-pierced heart with banner on upper arm