Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Colour tattoo on a thigh showing a round cartoon character in glasses holding a sugar skull, with teal banners reading Sympathy for the Unusual, in a neo-traditional style.
Cartoon character with banners on thigh
Fine line tattoo of two interlocking heart outlines on a forearm, one red with the word Sister and one blue with the word Brother in script.
Sister and brother heart outlines on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo on a forearm of a cartoon girl in a pink bunny-ear hat, surrounded by flames, with a ribbon banner reading SEE YOU IN HELL.
Cartoon character with See you in hell banner
Black and grey tattoo on a forearm showing a skull within a tarot-style card labelled LA MORT, with a hand pinching a small object below it and a dotwork ornament at the base.
Skull tarot card and hand on forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a moonlit mountain, pine trees and a log cabin with a scroll banner, on a lower leg.
Mountain and log cabin scene on a calf
Black and white photo of a fine line script quote reading The ones that love us never really leave us, tattooed along the side of the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Colour tattoo on the inner forearm of a tabby cat with blue eyes peeking over a coffee cup, with the words all you need is love and more coffee in a realistic style with lettering.
Cat peeking over coffee cup with lettering
Realistic colour tattoo of a silver key with a keyhole charm tied with a pink bow and the script words follow your heart, on the ribs.
Pink bow key with follow your heart script
Traditional-style tattoo of a green and blue owl with pink feathers, with a banner reading NOT WHAT THEY SEEM, on the lower leg above the ankle.
Owl with banner on lower leg
Fine line script reading expecto patronum in pale ink across the inner forearm, with a white t-shirt and earphone cable visible behind.
Fine line script lettering on a forearm
Traditional style flash design of a woman with a voluminous dark beehive hairstyle, red roses and a ribbon banner reading LOVE IS A LOSING GAME.
Traditional portrait with roses and banner
Black fine line script tattoo forming an infinity symbol with a small heart, placed on the ribs.
Infinity symbol with script quote on ribs
Close-up of the words bride tribe in gold brush lettering on the inner wrist, with a blurred green garden behind.
Gold bride tribe script on a wrist
Black fine lettering reading ehfav with a semicolon and an arrow pointing left, tattooed on the inner wrist beneath gold bangles.
Arrow and semicolon lettering on a wrist
Black script lettering with flourishes tattooed on the upper thigh of each leg, above lace shorts trim.
Script lettering on both thighs
Neo-traditional tattoo of a smiling sloth with a pink dahlia, red roses and orange lilies on the outer thigh, with a banner beneath.
Sloth with roses and lilies on a thigh
Flash design of a dark-haired cartoon princess with a red bow, framed by a rope oval, roses and banners reading waiting for love's true kiss, in traditional colour.
Dark-haired princess pin-up with true kiss banner
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on the thigh of a lion with a flowing mane inside an oval, framed by gold scrollwork with a lion cub above and a banner below.
Lion in an ornate gilded frame on the thigh
Black lettering tattoo on a forearm reading 'i fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.' against grass.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Seated person with a black ink traditional-style heart banner reading MOTHER and a draped figure on the inner forearm, with TAKE CARE lettering on the back of the hand.
Mother banner and take care lettering on forearm
Black fine line script reading 'i am because you are' runs along a forearm above a grey knitted sweater.
Script quote along a forearm
Black line drawing flash of a cartoon sailor in a rowboat inside a circle, with the words ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT and THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME, shown without a placement on the body.
Sailor in a rowboat flash design
Black fine line script reading Let it go on the inner forearm near the wrist, with three small birds flying upwards beside it.
Let it go script with birds on the wrist
Black and white silhouette stencils on card, including a Dalek, several profile heads, a sonic screwdriver, a bow tie and a police box with the word GERONIMO, laid out on a wooden table.
Silhouette stencil sheets on a wooden table
Black and white photo of fine line script reading serendipity along the ribs, with a smaller word tattooed on the wrist.
Serendipity script tattoo on the ribs
Black dotwork tattoo of a classical bust with a labyrinth on its head, on the upper arm, with a small tombstone reading TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG above it.
Classical bust with labyrinth on upper arm
Black script tattoo reading I love you to the Moon and back, with a crescent moon and three small stars, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
I love you to the Moon and back lettering
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a cartoon woman with curly blonde hair, a hand cupped to her mouth, above three candy heart shapes with lettering, on skin.
Cartoon woman and candy hearts on skin
Coloured flash drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with two roses, a gold star, a heart-shaped compact, a heart bell and the words Fighting Evil on banners.
Fighting Evil flash with roses, star and heart charms
Close-up of two fists with black ink knuckle lettering spelling STAY TRUE, with a grey rose tattoo on the right forearm.
STAY TRUE knuckle lettering
Black line drawing of a heart outline with flowing script lettering running along its edges, shown in three variants on a white background.
Heart outline with script lettering
Fine line black script tattoo reading 'She flies with her own wings' across a woman's upper back, near the shoulder blade.
Script quote about wings on upper back
Colour traditional tattoo of a Lego-style painter minifigure with an afro, holding a palette and brush beside a landscape canvas and a Happy Accidents banner, on a calf.
Lego painter with Happy Accidents banner
Black fine line Deathly Hallows symbol with purple and turquoise watercolour accents, above the script words After all this time? and Always, on the forearm.
Deathly Hallows symbol with Always script on forearm
Flash design of three purple and green thistles tied with a purple and cream ribbon, above a cream banner reading Sassy Lassie, on a black background.
Three thistles with ribbon and banner
Traditional style tattoo on a thigh showing a shaded grey cross wrapped in thorns, two red roses, grey clouds, small birds and the script words 'If heaven wasn't so far away'.
Cross, roses and heaven quote on a thigh
Black flash design of two skulls with cross and heart eyes above a red dripping heart crossed by a red line, with the words RAGE and LOVE, shown without a body placement.
Twin skulls and dripping heart with RAGE LOVE text
Black cursive script tattoo reading la dolce vita across the back of a hand, in a lettering style.
La dolce vita script on the back of a hand
Two traditional style colour tattoos on forearms, one showing a bottle with a CONSTRUCT banner and flowers, the other showing scissors with a CREATE banner and flowers.
Construct bottle and create scissors on forearms
Two shoulder tattoos side by side: a grey-shaded daisy beside the script words You are my sunshine, and a colour sunflower beside the script words My only sunshine, both in fine lettering.
Daisy and sunflower script tattoos on the shoulder
Black fine line cursive script tattoo running diagonally along a forearm against a dark background, in black and grey.
Fine line script on a forearm
Black and grey sunflower tattoo on a shoulder, with the script words you are my sunshine running out beside it towards the collarbone.
Sunflower and script on a shoulder
Pencil and stippled drawing of a moth with a crescent moon, the words Always Find The Light and geometric construction lines, shown as an unplaced tattoo design.
Moth and crescent moon design with lettering
Black sans serif lettering spelling WARRIOR across the inner wrist and forearm, with the I drawn with a dot beneath it.
WARRIOR lettering on a wrist
Traditional style flash design of two matching banners reading society, with a vintage bus, a compass, red roses and a bare tree, in colour.
Society banners with bus, compass and roses
Black linework and dotwork flash design of an anatomical heart with a chair and hanging bulb inside, lettered YOU LIVE THERE below.
Anatomical heart with a chair inside
Black and grey flash design of a globe with a botanical sprig border and script lettering reading Be the change you hope to see in the world.
Globe with botanical lettering design
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a planchette with a crescent moon and three flowers on the thigh, beside a heron leg and a feather.
Planchette with crescent moon and flowers on thigh