Lettering tattoo ideas

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Fine line black tattoo on a person's upper back reading PURSUIT OF, followed by a chemical structure drawing of a molecule.
Pursuit of text with molecule on upper back
Two side-by-side photos of small black lettering tattoos on the wrist: a flower wreath reading Be Kind to yourself, and a plaster design reading I will feel better.
Wrist tattoos reading Be Kind and I will feel better
Black line tattoo of a hanging sign reading Gone to Market, sitting on the top of a foot in a hand-drawn lettering style.
Gone to Market sign on top of foot
Two forearms with white and metallic temporary tattoos reading Bride and Team Bride, with dotted outlines and hearts.
Bride and Team Bride temporary wrist designs
Black ink drawing of the words Let me be brave in script lettering, with a bird in flight dissolving into stippled dots at the end of the phrase.
Let me be brave lettering with a bird
Black flowing script lettering reading 'to live to learn to love' in calligraphic style on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Script quote reading to live to learn to love
Close photograph of a black Hebrew lettering tattoo on the inner wrist, in a blocky lettering style.
Hebrew lettering on the inner wrist
Black and grey tattoo of a raised finger in front of lips beside ornate blackletter lettering with flourishes, on a limb.
Lips and raised finger with blackletter lettering
Black ink lettering design reading Not all who wander are lost in flourished script, beside a black and grey compass rose, drawn on pale paper.
Not all who wander are lost with compass rose
Flash sheet of hand-lettered phrases in black ink on white paper, with two pale blue panels patterned with small stars, shown as lettering designs rather than on skin.
Hand-lettered phrase sheet with star panels
Two bare feet showing black script lettering reading Heels on the left heel and Down on the right heel, in a Lettering style.
Heels and Down script tattoos on the heels
Flash sheet of six black lettering designs reading the rest is still unwritten, each in a different script or ornamental lettering style, intended as tattoo lettering.
The rest is still unwritten lettering options
Black ink script lettering spelling the word Fearless with looping flourishes, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain grey background.
Fearless script lettering design
Black lettering tattoos, including KEEP GRL PWR, on a forearm beside a red floral tattoo on an upper arm, with a mandala owl printed on a white T-shirt.
Lettering tattoos with an owl print tee
Black script lettering on a white background reading I'm not making any resolutions this year, nobody likes a sober skinny bitch anyway, shown as a design with no body placement.
Script quote about New Year resolutions
Fine line script tattoo reading "Let it Be" in black ink on the inner forearm near the wrist, with stacked beaded bracelets below it.
"Let it Be" script on a wrist
Black and grey lettering reading DON'T LAUGH with a small downward arrow, tattooed on the lower abdomen above a black waistband, with larger black and grey tattoos higher up the torso.
Small Don't Laugh lettering on the lower belly
Colourful script tattoo on an upper back spelling AUTISM down the centre, with puzzle pieces in red, blue, yellow, purple and green.
Autism acrostic with puzzle pieces on upper back
Black and white photo of two people's sides, each with a fine line script tattoo on the ribs: a ship's wheel with a quote on the left and an anchor with a quote on the right.
Ship's wheel and anchor with script on the sides
Two matching black script tattoos reading We shall never drift apart with an anchor, one on the top of a foot and one on a forearm.
Matching anchor and quote tattoos on foot and forearm
Black and white photo of the word grace in thin, lowercase fine line lettering on the inner wrist and forearm.
Lowercase word grace on an inner wrist
Fine line black tattoo on the side of a thigh showing a stack of three books beneath the script words I've lived a thousand lives.
Stack of books and a quote on the thigh
Two photographs of black lettering tattoos: "I'm fine" on the outer thigh above the knee, and "save me" on the ankle of a raised foot, both in a plain black script.
"I'm fine" and "save me" lettering on legs
Traditional-style tattoo on an arm showing a grey hat with a black ribbon and a small red rose, with the words UGH and AS IF above and below.
Hat and rose with UGH AS IF lettering
Black fine line peacock feather tattoo on the side of the ribs, with lettering in an invented script running beside it.
Peacock feather and lettering on the ribs
Black fine line tattoo of a galloping horse with the words stay strong in cursive script on the inner forearm.
Horse and stay strong script on forearm
Fine line black script lettering runs from the ankle down the side of a bare foot, with a second foot beside it.
Script quotation running along the foot
Two blue wrist tattoos: the word Duke in blackletter-style script on the left, and an outlined Hello Kitty holding an orange basketball on the right.
Duke lettering and Hello Kitty wrist tattoos
Traditional style tattoo of a red and yellow rose with green leaves and a black banner of lettering across the inner forearm.
Red rose and banner lettering on a forearm
Black and grey script lettering with shaded edges across a man's forearm, placed on the forearm, with a skull tattoo partly visible at the bottom right.
Script name lettering on a forearm
Realism tattoo of the Cheshire Cat wearing a top hat with a percentage tag, with the words We're all Mad here in script below, on the inner ankle.
Cheshire Cat in a top hat with lettering
Black lettering in a typewriter-style font reads "We were born ready, ready to be free. Chasin' every thrill we could see" on the forearm, in a Lettering tattoo.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Black and grey feather tattoo with flying birds and script lettering reading alis volat propriis on the side ribs.
Feather and birds with Latin script
Black and white photo of a forearm with the words LOVE WILL TEAR US APART tattooed in bold block capitals against a dark background.
Love will tear us apart lettering on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading inhale exhale across the upper chest, shown on bare skin beside a white top.
Inhale exhale script on the chest
Black line drawing design of the word ADVENTURE in hand-drawn lettering, with solid mountains, a bow and arrow, a pine tree and an acorn formed into the letters.
Adventure lettering with mountains and arrow
Black and teal heart-shaped lettering tattoo with filigree scrollwork on the thigh, photographed on a leg in patterned pyjamas.
Heart lettering tattoo on thigh
Black and white photo of a fine line script quote tattooed along the side of an ankle and foot, reading What you think, you become.
Script quote along an ankle
Black tattoo of the word curiouser in looping script within oval outlines, with one copy inverted, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Curiouser script tattoo on the inner arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the outline of the state of Texas on the inner forearm, with the word TEXAS in block lettering on the wrist, in a black and white photo.
Texas state outline and word on forearm
Cream line drawing of an eye on a dark background, with the words Don't Look Back set into the outline of the eye in a lettering design.
Eye with Don't Look Back lettering
Two hands with matching thin black script tattoos on the fingers, reading mr and mrs, in a fine line lettering style.
Matching mr and mrs finger tattoos
Black hand-lettered script design reading The Struggle is part of the Story on a cream background, drawn as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Script lettering: The Struggle is part of the Story
Black fine line lettering reading BABE IS BUSY on the outer upper arm of a woman in a grey t-shirt seated in a salon chair.
Small black lettering on an upper arm
Black line drawing flash design of a thread spool with crossed needles, a crown, scissors and a banner reading Make Things, in a traditional ornamental style.
Spool, needles and Make Things banner
Black and grey fine line cursive script tattoo running down the forearm of a person whose raised arm is shown against a grey wall.
Cursive script on a forearm
Two people show matching black and grey script name tattoos with footprint outlines, one on the side of the ribs and one on the upper back.
Matching script name and footprint tattoos
Black and white photo of a black script tattoo reading Forever 18 with two small butterflies, sitting on the lower abdomen above an underwear waistband, with a hand resting at the left edge.
Forever 18 script on the lower abdomen