Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey realism roses with ornate cursive script and leaves tattooed along the side of the ribs.
Black and grey roses and script on ribs
Black fine line script tattoo reading This too shall pass across the upper chest of a person wearing a low-cut dark top.
This too shall pass script on upper chest
Black ink flash sheet of an ornate script alphabet titled Double, with swirling flourishes, shown as a drawn lettering design rather than on skin.
Double script alphabet flash sheet
Woman in a white tank top resting one hand on her pregnant belly, with a thin black script tattoo running along her forearm.
Fine line script on a forearm
Close photo of the words BOYS DANCE TOO in orange, yellow and red block lettering on a man's upper arm, worn with a white vest top.
Boys Dance Too lettering on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of a worn, floppy-eared toy rabbit above black script lettering on the side of an upper arm.
Worn toy rabbit with script quote on upper arm
Black and grey chest and neck tattoo with script lettering and foliage, partly visible above an open grey shirt collar.
Chest and neck tattoos under a grey shirt
Black and grey drawing of a treble clef wrapped in two scroll banners that read I am married to the music, for better or worse, with a pointed blade shape at the top.
Treble clef with quote banners
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading wanderlust on the inner wrist, with gold bangles and a mountain landscape behind.
Wanderlust lettering on the inner wrist
Black ink script lettering reading Perfectly Imperfect on a ribbon banner, tattooed on the upper back near the shoulder.
Perfectly Imperfect lettering on a shoulder
Traditional style flash drawing of a pink-frosted cupcake with a bow, a slogan banner, two orange flowers and a rising sun, in full colour.
Cupcake with banner flash design
Black and grey photo of two clasped hands showing small black script lettering on both wrists, partly upside down from this angle, with a ring on one finger.
Matching script wrist tattoos on clasped hands
Black ink infinity symbol tattoo on the chest, with a script letter R on the left loop and Roman numerals XX-III-MMXI on the right loop.
Infinity symbol with letter R and Roman numerals
Black ink pen sketch of stylised cursive script lettering on cream paper, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Hand-drawn script lettering sketch
Flash sheet of gold and silver foil temporary tattoo designs, including icosahedrons, arrows, a sunburst and lettering, with no body placement shown.
Metallic geometric flash sheet with lettering
Black script lettering reading Love is All or Nothing with a small heart, tattooed along the upper arm.
Script quote with heart on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm showing a radio tower with a red heart, lightning bolts and a city silhouette inside a ring of lettering reading Do What You Love and Love What You Do, with the
Radio tower and heart with Do What You Love text
Black fine line script reading alis volat propriis, ending in a detailed feather, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Alis volat propriis script with feather
Black lettering tattoos reading 'Too weird to live' and 'Too rare to die', with small bat outlines, on the backs of two thighs above denim cut-off shorts.
Quote lettering across both thighs
Colour lettering tattoo reading 'the ones that love us never really leave us' with roses and peonies on a thigh.
Floral quote lettering on a thigh
Black and white hatched line drawing of the word Boop with a full stop, a lettering tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Boop lettering design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a dog head in profile above three roses, with the script words misunderstood breed arched overhead, in a traditional style.
Dog portrait with roses and script lettering
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Promise tattooed along a finger, a lettering design on the hand.
Promise lettering tattoo on a finger
Vertical Hebrew lettering tattoo in dark ink on the back of a person's neck, with the head turned away from the camera.
Vertical Hebrew script on the back of the neck
Flash design of a woman's profile silhouette in black, with a red wide-brimmed hat, red lips and the words I KNOW MY VALUE in white lettering.
I Know My Value lettering in a profile silhouette
Black and grey mountain range tattoo on the top of a foot, with the words The road goes ever on and on written in handwritten script beneath the peaks.
Mountain range and quote on a foot
Three bare feet with black yin yang tattoos and script lettering around them, placed on the top of each foot.
Matching yin yang tattoos on three feet
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading alia volat propriis across the upper chest, below a black lace bra strap and above a grey vest top.
Fine line Latin script on upper chest
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a dreamcatcher with two feathers beside the word Dreamer in blackletter-style script on the inner wrist.
Dreamer lettering with dreamcatcher on wrist
Black and white drawing of the words The Strokes inside a black circle, surrounded by intricate floral and paisley doodles, shown as a tattoo design.
The Strokes logo with floral doodle design
Black fine line script reading live your dream on a white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Live your dream script lettering
Fine line black script tattoo reading until the very end, sitting across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Until the very end script on the collarbone
Two matching black infinity symbol tattoos made of small lettering, one on each inner wrist.
Matching infinity wrist tattoos
Black script lettering on a white background reading "Put God first and you'll never be last." in flowing, brushed strokes.
Script lettering quote: Put God first
Black fine line script tattoo of the words God is within her, she will not fall, Psalm 46:5, across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Psalm 46:5 script across upper back
Red pencil drawing of a heart-shaped house with scalloped roof tiles, a chimney with smoke, a rose with leaves and the words HEART & HOME on a banner, shown as tattoo flash with no body placement.
Heart-shaped house with rose and banner
Black and grey script lettering reading Money Over Everything across a forearm, with a white cat and a chair in the background.
Money over everything script on a forearm
Two hands with black block lettering across the fingers reading HOPELESS ROMANTIC, with small outlined hearts, a lettering style tattoo on the fingers.
Hopeless romantic finger lettering with hearts
Black and white photo of two hands with traditional-style finger tattoos of block letters, an umbrella, a rain cloud, a crescent moon and a star.
Finger lettering with umbrella, cloud, moon and star
Black fine line script reading que sera sera across the inside of a wrist, with red nail polish on the hand above.
Que sera sera script on a wrist
Two matching black and grey shoulder tattoos of three birds on a branch, with script reading Where you go, I'll go and Where you stay, I'll stay.
Matching bird and script shoulder tattoos
Black and grey photo of a fine line script tattoo on the inner forearm, reading what appears to be as it goes, with a small dot above the letters.
Fine line script lettering on a forearm
Hand-drawn black ink alphabet sheet showing capital letters A to Z, each with diamond shading inside the letterforms, on a white background.
Hand-drawn alphabet lettering sheet
Close-up of a fine line cursive script tattoo running down the outer thigh of a person in a loose white top and shorts.
Fine line script tattoo on a thigh
Black script lettering reading One day at a time, tattooed along the side of a person's ribs.
One day at a time script on the ribs
Black looping script lettering tattoo running down the forearm, drawn in thin, flowing cursive strokes.
Looping script lettering on a forearm
Small black fine line arrow tattoo with the years 1966-1998 and a script word beneath it, placed on the side of a person's ribs.
Arrow with dates and script on the ribs
Black script lettering reading I will make better mistakes tomorrow, in a fine line style, across the outer forearm of a person in a red plaid shirt.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm