Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional style flash drawing of a hot air balloon with a red sun, flowers and an anchor, with the words Enjoy the Ride on a banner.
Hot air balloon with banner and flowers
Black line flash design of two fists with HAND MADE across the knuckles, beside a spool of thread, scissors, a needle and yarn.
Hand made fists with sewing tools
Purple pencil flash drawing of a planchette-style design with a shaded eye, a smiling sun, a crescent moon and the words SPEAK TO ME NO MORE, in a neo-traditional style.
Planchette design with eye, sun and moon
Yellow lettering with a dark outline reading DON'T PANIC in bubble capitals, tattooed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Don't Panic lettering on a forearm
Black linework gravestone tattoo reading DON'T TRY, with a cracked top, a flower and a leaf, in a traditional style on the upper arm.
Gravestone with Don't Try lettering
Black and grey realism tattoo of a penny on the side of the ribs, with a shaded profile portrait and small lettering around the rim.
Realistic penny coin on the ribs
Pen-drawn ornate lettering design on paper with a large decorative initial, swirling flourishes and a cursive script word, shown beside a black fineliner pen.
Ornate flourished lettering design
Colour tattoo of a laughing cartoon cat with three red HA letters beside it, placed on the inner upper arm.
Laughing cartoon cat on upper arm
Man's torso, neck and arms covered in black blackwork tattoos, with a honeycomb pattern of hexagons and pentagons and a dotwork gradient around the navel.
Honeycomb blackwork torso piece
Black and grey lettering and clock tattoo with an ornate scrolled frame, shown on the lower back with part of a feathered wing at the top edge.
Ornate clock face with a wing above
Colourful barn owl tattoo in a loose watercolour style, with the words It's only forever not long at all in black script, on a limb.
Barn owl with lyric lettering on a limb
Black fine line tattoo on the inner forearm showing a city skyline with a domed building, a bridge and a line of lettering beneath.
Skyline line art with lettering on forearm
Black and grey dotwork traditional tattoo of crossed scissors wrapped in two banners with lettering, placed on the outer thigh.
Scissors and banners on a thigh
White chalk-style kanji character above the lowercase word pain on a black background, drawn as a possible tattoo design.
Chalk kanji with the word pain
Blue watercolour-style tattoo on a lower leg showing a white triangle with an eye and bow tie inside flames, with the text Reality is an Illusion above and The Universe is a Hologram below.
Triangle eye and flames with quote on a calf
Black and grey blackletter lettering reading REGRET NOTHING across the upper arm.
Regret nothing lettering on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of an eye within a triangle above the words Ladies Love Outlaws, on the forearm near the elbow.
Eye in triangle with lettering on arm
Pencil drawing of a crescent moon, a hand holding a wand and two ribbon banners with script lettering, shaded in yellow and black linework.
In the Name of the Moon banner design
Black and grey tattoo on a forearm of a nude woman holding a mirror with long flowing hair, with German lettering above, placed on the inner forearm.
Mirror-holding nude and German text on forearm
Black ink lettering tattoo of the word Always in script, with a Deathly Hallows symbol in place of the A and a feather beneath, on the forearm.
Always script with Deathly Hallows and feather
Black and grey Celtic knotwork cross with the words Tell me I can't above and And I'll show you I can below, tattooed on a calf.
Celtic cross with quote lettering on a calf
Two wrists with matching black crown tattoos, one reading One Life and the other One Love, with the hands clasped together.
Matching crown tattoos reading One Life and One Love
Black and grey realism tattoo of three roses, a compass and script on the outer thigh.
Roses and compass on a thigh
Black script lettering arranged in a loop across a bare leg, with a wine bottle and picnic basket on a striped blanket behind.
Script lettering looped in a circle on a leg
Two matching fine line script tattoos on wrists, one reading 'to' with an infinity symbol and the other reading 'and beyond'.
Matching 'to infinity and beyond' wrist tattoos
Fine line black script lettering reading sister with an outlined heart, placed vertically on the ankle.
Script word and heart on an ankle
Black and white pen drawing of a traditional-style design with stacked ribbon banners reading Ain't no woman like the one I got, an arrow and a heart, with no body placement shown.
Stacked ribbon banners with lettering and heart
Fine line black tattoo of a short-haired figure leaning forward with a raised limb and a lettered band across the torso, placed on the calf.
Fine line figure with raised arm on a calf
Two black tattoos on a forearm: a bold key silhouette reading MEMORY IS THE KEY, and a second black symbol in a blocky lettering style.
Memory is the key quote on forearm
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull with bicycle wheel eyes, a red sawtooth halo and two lines of lettering, on the thigh, in a neo-traditional style.
Sugar skull with bicycle eyes on a thigh
Solid black traditional-style tattoo of a skull in profile, with the word HAHA inside the brain area, on a lower leg.
Skull in profile with HAHA on a calf
Small fine line tattoo on the inner wrist reading Paris, with the Eiffel Tower forming the A and a solid red heart beside the word.
Paris with Eiffel Tower and red heart on wrist
Close view of a small black script lettering tattoo on the lower leg just above the ankle, with a person wearing black wedge sandals.
Small script tattoo on an ankle
Black ink Arabic script lettering tattooed across the inner forearm, photographed with the arm raised against a gallery-style room.
Arabic script on a forearm
Four people's inner wrists show matching black script tattoos reading No 1/4, No 2/4, No 3/4 and No 4/4, with a key design beside No 3/4.
Four numbered wrist tattoos, 1/4 to 4/4
Pencil drawing of a Cheshire Cat style grin and whiskered face with blue-green eyes, above the words we're all mad here, with no body placement shown.
Cheshire Cat grin with blue-green eyes
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh in a lettering style, with a serif quote about courage between two ornamental scroll flourishes.
Lettered quote tattoo on the thigh
Black and grey dotwork mandala tattoos cover the tops of both feet, with solid black bands around the ankle and the words LOVE and PAIN across the toes.
Mandala tattoos on both feet
Black script lettering reading let your faith be bigger than your fears across the ribs, with a white lace garment above.
Script quote across the ribs
Black script lettering tattoo across the back of a hand and wrist, with a small cross above it, on a woman wearing a black bikini top and denim shorts.
Script lettering tattoo on the hand and wrist
Black and white photo of fine line cursive script lettering running diagonally along a forearm, with the hand relaxed below.
Cursive script lettering on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo on the inner forearm of a hand raised against a grey tiled floor, in an angular style that appears to be Tengwar.
Elvish script tattoo on a forearm
Traditional-style flash drawing of a ship in a heart framed by roses, with the words Beyond the Sea in black outline lettering.
Ship in a heart with roses flash design
Traditional style flash sheet with two portrait figures in the centre, surrounded by an eye, a hand holding a cigarette, a UFO, a bee and crystals, with slogan lettering.
Flash sheet with two portraits, UFO, eye and bee
Pencil sketch of decorative lettering reading Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, with scrollwork and a banner, beside an eraser and two pencils.
Lettering sketch of a quote on a banner
Two hands with traditional style tattoos, bold black lettering across the finger knuckles and coloured banner designs on the backs of the hands.
Knuckle lettering and banners on both hands
Black script lettering on a white background reading 'La vita è un sogno', a tattoo design in a flowing calligraphic style.
Italian script quote 'La vita è un sogno'
Close view of a wrist with typewriter-style lettering reading I'm with Amanda's Bachelorette Party and a black anchor with a red rope, placed on the forearm near the wrist.
Bachelorette party anchor on a wrist