Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey fine line script reading Life goes on on a woman's ribs, with black underwear and bra in a bright studio.
Script 'Life goes on' on the ribs
Realism teddy bear in an ornate frame on one thigh and black and grey script lettering on the other, with the wearer in underwear and striped socks.
Teddy bear and script tattoos on thighs
Black ink drawing of a grinning devil with swept-back hair, horns and pointed ears, flanked by the words JUST WAIT on a white background.
Grinning devil with Just Wait lettering
Close photograph of the phrase Lights will guide you home in black cursive script across the inside of a forearm.
Script quote reading Lights will guide you home
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style dagger with the name Rumplestiltskin on the blade and a banner reading All Magic Comes With a Price, drawn as a tattoo design.
Dagger and banner reading All Magic Comes With a Price
Fine line black and grey tattoo of a crystal cluster on the forearm, with faint lettering partly visible above it.
Crystal cluster on the forearm
Bold black hand-lettered word Smile in a flowing script style, drawn with marker on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design.
Smile hand lettering in black ink
Black fine-lettering text tattoo across the lower back of a woman in a beaded top and jeans, shown from behind.
Small text tattoo on lower back
Black and grey lettering tattoo across the back of a hand, mixing script and block capitals with shaded flourishes above the words.
Lettered phrase across the back of a hand
Traditional tattoo of a red and white umbrella in rain and grey clouds inside a rope-edged oval, with the banner BETTER GET USED TO IT, on the top of a foot.
Umbrella and banner on the top of a foot
Black fine-line script tattoo reading Imperfection is beauty running along a pale forearm, photographed in black and white.
Script quote reading Imperfection is beauty
Watercolour-style flash design of a zombie-like Alice with a grinning pink Cheshire cat, a pocket watch and the words We're all mad here, with no body placement shown.
Zombie Alice and Cheshire cat with lettering
Black and grey tattoo of an acorn with two oak leaves and the letters ox above it, shaded in soft grey, on the forearm.
Acorn and oak leaves on a forearm
Black line drawing of a dreamcatcher-style hoop with arrows, feathers and hearts around the lettered verse When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I, Psalm 61:2.
Dreamcatcher arrows and Psalm 61:2 design
Black and grey realism tattoo of an ornate heart-shaped locket on a chain with a key and script lettering, on a lower leg.
Heart locket and key on a calf
Neo-trad style flash design of a coffin framing a cracked red heart, green lightning bolts and a white banner reading ALL WE LOVE WE LEAVE BEHIND, with red drips along the base.
All we love, we leave behind coffin flash
Traditional style tattoo of a light bulb with the words BABE YOU TURN ME ON arched above it and green leaves at its sides, on a limb.
Light bulb with quote on a limb
Pencil drawing of a neo-traditional compass and lighthouse design with a Find Your Own Way banner, in black and grey shading, shown on a sketch pad.
Compass and lighthouse with Find Your Own Way banner
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a white unicorn head with a golden mane, surrounded by rainbow-coloured rays and a FOREVER banner, on a thigh.
Unicorn and FOREVER banner on a thigh
Colour tattoo of the Goonies Never Say Die lettering with black silhouettes of figures and a large creature above, on the outer upper arm.
Goonies Never Say Die lettering on upper arm
Black ink script lettering samples with flourishes, including phrases such as Adaggio and Love Catalogue, and a full lowercase and numeral alphabet along the bottom.
Script lettering specimen sheet
Colour tattoo of a Star of Life with a serpent entwined around a staff, outlined in black with a quote curved around it, on a leg.
Star of Life with serpent and lettering
Black and grey script tattoo across the lower back of a person wearing black leggings with white XO logos.
Script tattoo on lower back
Black and grey photograph of a tattoo reading skin is boring in typewriter-style lettering, set among bold outlined rays and ornamental linework on the arm.
Skin is boring script within a linework design
Two palms face up showing matching black ink split-heart tattoos, one half reading FUCK and the other YOU, on the hand.
Split heart tattoos on two palms
Black and grey photograph of two hands holding pistols, with the Latin words Aequitas and Veritas tattooed in lettering across the fingers.
Latin lettering on fingers beside pistols
Black outline script reading blue grass, with a simple line drawing behind it, on the outer upper arm.
Blue grass script on an upper arm
Black line drawing of a tattoo design in a circle, with two small circles, a crescent shape, two parallel diagonal bars and the word Hope beneath.
Hope symbol with circles and bars
Black line drawing of a stylised face in a curved outline with a handwritten quote beneath it reading I do not let my insecurities overtake me.
Abstract face line drawing with quote
Black and grey knuckle tattoos spelling STAY REAL in plain block lettering across two clenched fists, with tattooed forearms visible at the sides.
STAY REAL knuckle lettering
Black and grey traditional flash drawing of a peony with leaves above a lettered ribbon banner, being sketched on paper by a hand holding a pencil.
Peony and lettering banner flash sketch
Fine line black script reading with pain comes strength runs vertically along the side of a torso, beside a hand with rings resting on a purple top.
Script quote along the side ribs
Traditional style flash design of a smiling pin-up woman in boots and gloves riding an oversized black moustache, with Best Ride lettering and Giddy Up beside it.
Pin-up woman riding a giant moustache
Colour script lettering reading As Lost As Alice, As Mad As a Hatter in blue, red and black ink on a forearm, with a small red heart.
As lost as Alice lettering on a forearm
Black fine-line tattoo of the word Crikey with a crocodile-like shape on the outer ankle, in a fine line lettering style.
Crikey lettering with crocodile on an ankle
Traditional style colour tattoo of a pineapple house with a blue door and the words I'M READY beneath it, on the calf.
Pineapple house with I'm Ready lettering
Black and grey photo of two open palms with the word HARD tattooed across the left fingers and WORK across the right, in block lettering on the hand.
HARD WORK lettering across the fingers
Black script reading Made of Love across a person's upper back, flanked by two small coloured circles, one red and one blue, with a thin silver chain visible.
Made of Love script on upper back
White fine line script reading Remember why you started on a plain black background, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Remember why you started script lettering
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with the words we were, AND IN THAT MOMENT I SWEAR and infinite woven into an infinity symbol, shown on plain paper.
Infinity loop with lettered quote design
Fine line black ink tattoo of a cartoon creature above the line 'A person's a person, no matter how small' on the lower back.
Cartoon creature and quote on the lower back
Three black ink tattoos of the word sorella, in script and block lettering, on two forearms and a wrist.
Sorella word tattoos on forearms and wrist
Three views of a wooden artist's hand drawn with a black and grey sphynx cat with a third eye and crescent moon on the palm, a bird skull with crossed bones on the forearm, and PURR EVIL lettering on
Sphynx cat and bird skull designs on a wooden hand
Neo-traditional coloured pencil design of a pink octopus wrapped around a blue anchor, with a cream skull and a banner reading NO MANS LAND.
Octopus with anchor and skull design
Colour traditional tattoo of a compass in an octagonal frame with yellow banners reading BRING ME THAT HORIZON, on a person's upper back.
Compass with banners on upper back
Hand-drawn blue ink design of the word Faith in ornate script lettering with swirling flourishes on cream paper, beside a blue felt-tip pen.
Faith script lettering with flourishes
Traditional style eagle tattoo with a red sun, a lettered banner and a purple flower on a person's upper arm.
Traditional eagle with banner on upper arm
Black ink decorative script alphabet showing upper and lower case letters with swirling flourishes, in a lettering style, on a white background.
Decorative script alphabet sheet