Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional flash design of a black stiletto shoe with a yellow and red cupcake-style platform, a dagger through a red heart, blood drops and the word HEARTBREAKER running up the heel.
Heartbreaker stiletto with dagger and heart
Traditional colour tattoo of a globe on a stand with an orange flower, black leaves and the words WHEN I COME AROUND, on a limb.
Globe with flower and lettering
Traditional style flash design of an open book with a quill and chain, flanked by two closed leather-bound books, with banner scrolls carrying lettering above and below.
Open book with quill and banner scrolls
Traditional style tattoos of ships, roses and a sailor portrait on a woman's stomach and upper thigh, with her face cropped out of frame.
Ships, roses and a sailor on torso and thigh
Traditional flash sheet with the words NO MONEY NO TATTOO, a swallow, a lighthouse, falling coins, a clasped handshake on a striped sleeve, an anchor and shears in the corners.
No money no tattoo flash sheet
Traditional style flash design of Hello Kitty sitting in front of a pink heart with a banner reading HELLO KITTY, framed by flowers and leaves.
Hello Kitty traditional design with heart and banner
Black and grey traditional style tattoo on a calf showing a leaping rabbit, a bear trap with a chain, and the words NEVER RENOUNCE FREEDOM beneath it.
Rabbit, bear trap and lettering on a calf
Black and grey tattoo on a calf showing the LA Kings crest, the letters LA, a crown and the outline of California, in a bold traditional style.
LA Kings logo and crown on a calf
Black ink traditional-style anchor design with three banner scrolls across the shank reading Sleeping With Sirens, drawn as a flash sheet with no body part visible.
Anchor with three banners reading Sleeping With Sirens
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a crescent moon with a woman's face, roses and a banner reading LA LUNA on a person's upper back.
Crescent moon with face and roses on back
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a shaded profile silhouette with ribbon banners reading Darling You'll Be Okay, on a forearm.
Silhouette and banner on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of scissors, a ball of green yarn, a paintbrush, a pen nib and a red banner reading CRAFTY, with flowers, on a limb.
Crafty scissors and yarn tattoo
Pastel coloured flash design of a triceratops and two dinosaur heads with pink roses, ferns and leaves, framed by a banner reading dinosaurs eat man and woman inherits the earth.
Dinosaurs, roses and banner flash design
Traditional style colour tattoo of a dotted-outline heart filled with red flowers and dark leaves, with a FAMILY banner across the middle, on a limb.
Traditional heart with flowers and FAMILY banner
Black dotwork circle with the words 1 tbsp and 1 tsp inked on the palm, with traditional colour tattoos of an apple and a bird on the wrist and forearm.
Dotted circle with measurements on palm
Colour traditional tattoo on a thigh showing a pocket watch, painted planets and two banners reading "All of time and space, where do you want to start?"
Pocket watch and planets banner on a thigh
Colour tattoo on the upper arm of a cartoon pile of poo with green steam and orange rays, with Holy Shit arched above in bold black lettering.
Cartoon steaming pile with Holy Shit lettering
Traditional style tattoo of a snarling black cat head with purple eyes and red ears, with STAY above and HOME below, on the thigh.
Snarling black cat with STAY HOME lettering
Two traditional style tattoos on the tops of bare feet, a wrench with a DAD banner and a sewing machine with a MOM banner, both with red flowers.
Wrench and sewing machine tattoos on feet
Traditional-style flash design of a banner reading BREAKFAST ALWAYS, surrounded by a coffee mug, coffee pot, waffle, fried eggs, bacon and orange slices.
Breakfast always banner with eggs and bacon
Pencil line drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with roses, two lovebirds in an ornate heart frame and a banner reading Hopeless Romantic.
Roses and lovebirds tattoo design
Two people's forearms side by side showing matching traditional-style tattoos of a shovel and a shaded object, each with a scroll banner carrying lettering, on the inner forearm.
Matching shovel and banner forearm tattoos
Black line drawing of a snarling wolf head in traditional style, with banners reading THIS WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING.
Snarling wolf head with banner
Traditional-style flash design of three orange carrots with green tops, wrapped in two banners reading REAL FOOD HAS MUD and NOT BLOOD, with no body placement shown.
Three carrots with banner design
Traditional style colour tattoo of an orange peach with green leaves, a branch and a PEACHY banner, with red flowers, on the upper arm.
Peach with PEACHY banner on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of clouds, a red sun and a banner reading NOTHING BUT THE RAIN, shown across two panels.
Nothing but the rain banner with clouds and sun
Two hands with traditional style tattoos on the backs and fingers, showing a crowned Jesus figure on one hand and a SERVANT HEART banner on the other, with letters across the fingers.
Traditional hand tattoos with Jesus and lettering
Traditional-style tattoo of a red and grey Chi Rho symbol within a black laurel wreath, with alpha and omega letters below, on a lower leg.
Chi Rho and laurel wreath on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of three playing aces and two dice behind a ribbon reading Life's A Gamble, on a limb, with grey shading and small red accents.
Playing cards and dice with Life's A Gamble banner
Black line drawing of a traditional-style flash design showing a crown above a heart with a dagger, a banner reading CRAFTY, stars and swirls, with no body placement shown.
Crown and heart banner flash design
Black linework alphabet sheet of ornate lettering in a traditional style, with numerals and symbols, shown as a tattoo lettering design.
Ornate tattoo lettering alphabet sheet
Traditional style colour tattoo of an anatomical heart framed by yellow banner scrolls with lettering, on a leg.
Anatomical heart with banner scroll on a leg
Black and grey flash design of a lighthouse inside a rope circle, with a ship's wheel at its base and three banners carrying lettering.
Lighthouse and ship's wheel with banners
Black and grey pencil flash sheet showing heart lettering designs, a globe with a ribbon banner, a lightning bolt, a shoe and heart, and a linework portrait with lightning bolt face makeup.
Lettering and heart flash sheet
Traditional style tattoo of a closed umbrella with a green bird-head handle and a red banner reading Anything can happen, on the forearm.
Umbrella with banner on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a green raptor head with open jaws, two red roses with green leaves, and the words Life uh finds a way.
Raptor head and red roses with lettering
Black and grey traditional flash drawing of a heart holding an umbrella in the rain, with lightning, a beaded line, flowers and leaves, and the words It's Rainin' Inside.
Heart with umbrella and rain, It's Rainin' Inside
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo on a forearm, set in a circle with the word Wanderlust above a cabin, mountains, pine trees and leaves.
Wanderlust mountain cabin forearm tattoo
Black ink flash design of a stiletto heel with three banners reading boys only, want love if and it's torture, drawn in a traditional style on white paper.
Stiletto heel with banner quote
Traditional style tattoo of an open book with two red roses and the words We're all stories in the end, on the ankle.
Open book and roses on an ankle
Traditional style tattoo on a thigh showing a hand holding a white rose, with banners reading Valar Morghulis and Valar Dohaeris, framed by red berries, green leaves and yellow flames.
Hand and rose banner tattoo on thigh
Black and grey flash drawing of a sloth holding two hatched banners reading NAP ALL DAY, SLEEP ALL NIGHT and PARTY NEVER, in a traditional style.
Sloth holding banners with slogan
Flash design of a black-outlined ribbon banner with green shading carrying the lettering IN THE WAVES OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR TRUE DIRECTION, shown on a speckled background.
Ribbon banner with a lettered quote
Pencil sketch of a traditional style tattoo design showing a headstone inscribed Wish You Were Here, a crescent moon, a rose and leaves.
Headstone with rose and crescent moon design
Traditional colour tattoo of a dripping pizza slice with pepperoni and two banners reading Drink Pizza and Eat Beer, on the forearm.
Pizza slice with Drink Pizza and Eat Beer banners
Black and grey dotwork flash design of a flying saucer emitting a light beam over pine trees, inside a circle with the words The truth is still out there.
UFO over pine trees with slogan
Traditional colour tattoo of a cat wearing a floral crown, with a teal banner reading MEATBALL and red and yellow flowers, on the thigh.
Cat in a floral crown with banner on thigh
Traditional style tattoo on a thigh showing an instant camera, a red rose, pink flowers and an hourglass in a photo frame, with the words Everything and Changes.
Instant camera, rose and hourglass on a thigh