Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Back view of a calf with a lettering tattoo of a black arrow, a warning-style sign and red capitals reading PLEASE GO AROUND, with pink running shoes.
Please go around calf tattoo
Promotional graphic showing free temporary tattoo designs on cards, including a heart with closed eyes, a pennant, a popsicle, a cactus and a smiley face, in pink, blue, yellow and mint.
Summer temporary tattoo freebie designs
Pencil drawing of ornate script lettering with swirling flourishes and a shaded banner, shown on paper beside a black fineliner pen.
Script lettering design with flourishes
Traditional colour tattoo of a horse wearing an orange halter inside a horseshoe, with leaves and a banner reading Lil Sebastian, on the upper arm.
Horse portrait in horseshoe on upper arm
Traditional colour tattoo on a limb showing a red cross emblem on a blue and orange circle, flanked by green leaves and banners reading Type II and Insulin Dependant.
Type II and insulin dependant banners with red emblem
Traditional style sleeve on a man's left arm, showing a swallow, a ribbon banner and a ship, with a script tattoo partly visible on his chest.
Traditional sleeve with swallow and ship on left arm
Close view of black lettering tattooed along the side of a person's waist reading 'In the sun I feel as one', with a small black tattoo on the forearm at the top right.
Lyric line tattoo along the side of the waist
Black fine line handwritten script reading just imagine, with a small outlined heart beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Just imagine script with small heart
Hand-drawn script lettering design reading Mind on my money, money on my mind, in black ink on cream paper, being traced by a hand holding a pen.
Script lettering sketch on paper
Dark red script lettering in a short phrase runs diagonally across the side of a hip, with a pale raised line visible beneath it.
Script lettering across a hip
Two black and grey script words tattooed one on each thigh, with swirl flourishes, below denim shorts.
Script words on both thighs
Two photos of black script lettering on a forearm reading you see all my light, and below it you accept all my dark, placed on the inner forearm.
Script quote tattoos on the forearm
Black script lettering reading To live does not mean your alive, tattooed across the back in a lettering style.
Script quote tattoo on the back
Black line drawing flash design of a winged pincushion with two skulls on pins and a curled banner reading Sew or Die, in a traditional style.
Winged pincushion with skulls and Sew or Die banner
Traditional style colour tattoo on the forearm showing a salmon nigiri piece, a yellow bird with a moustache and a pink banner reading SUSHI TIME, all outlined in black.
Salmon nigiri and bird with SUSHI TIME banner
Black and grey realism tattoo of a laughing bearded figure with arms crossed, framed by the words OMG and LOL and two crosses, on skin.
Laughing bearded figure with OMG and LOL lettering
Black line drawing of an upright cross with the words 'my GOD'S NOT DEAD' set in a thin, hand-lettered typeface on the crossbar, shown as a flash design.
Cross design with 'my God's not dead' text
Colour tattoo of a red and black emblem with the words Lok Tar Ogar in black lettering beside it, on the outer thigh.
Red emblem with lettering on the thigh
Flash style drawing of a blue tidal wave with a cream banner reading We Will Bring The Tidal Wave and the words Pierce The Veil 2013 beneath, shown without any body placement.
Tidal wave banner flash design
Man seen from behind with a large black and grey realism tattoo of lions and flowing script across his upper back and shoulder.
Lion and script tattoo across a back
Close photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Passion with a cross beneath it, placed on the back of the neck below dark hair.
Passion script tattoo on the neck
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a brown cowboy boot with a spur, a banner reading Daddy's Girl and teal roses, on the upper back.
Cowboy boot with Daddy's Girl banner and roses
Flash design of a red heart pierced by a green dagger with dripping blood drops and the word BOSS written above in black lettering.
Dagger through a heart with BOSS lettering
Pencil and coloured pencil drawing of Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie with dice and a banner reading Jack VS Oogie Boogie, designed as a tattoo flash.
Jack vs Oogie Boogie banner design
Black and grey traditional tattoo of an ornate birdcage with a bird inside and a swallow flying out, above a banner of text on the upper arm.
Birdcage and swallow on an upper arm
Close-up of the word ALWAYS in black serif lettering on the inside of a wrist, with a thin vertical dagger-like line through the A and a small red smear beneath.
ALWAYS lettering on the wrist
Black line tattoo of a fictional island map across a person's upper back, with labelled locations, a compass rose and scrolled corner ornaments.
Island treasure map across the upper back
Coloured flash drawing of a white mask, a red rose, green leaves and a dagger, with a banner reading Ideas are bulletproof, in a traditional style.
Mask, rose and dagger with banner design
Traditional style tattoo flash design of a man and woman above two red roses with a banner reading Timeless Love, shown without any body placement.
Timeless love couple and roses flash
Black and grey traditional tattoo of roses, a swallow and a banner reading TIME HEALS NOTHING on the outer thigh, with a small tattoo near the ankle.
Roses and banner on a thigh
Black ink tattoo of a smiling stick figure running, with the word 'RUNNING' above and 'SUCKS' below, on a area of skin.
Stick figure runner with 'Running sucks' text
Black and white engraved design of a face split down the middle inside a rope-twist circle, with Valar Morghulis and Valar Dohaeris lettering around the edge.
Split face emblem with Valar Morghulis lettering
Two photos of a fine line black sunflower tattoo with small script lettering, one on the ankle above a checkered shoe and one behind the ear.
Sunflower tattoos on ankle and behind ear
Black and grey tattoo on a forearm of a framed, Polaroid-style drawing of a house with a fence, with flourished script lettering below it.
Framed house drawing and script on a forearm
Colour tattoo of two sisters seated back to back with the words Sisters will always be connected by the heart, on the thigh.
Two sisters seated back to back on a thigh
Fine line black script reading l'amour fou, joined to a thin continuous line running along the forearm.
L'amour fou script on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Never a victim. Forever a fighter. across a person's lower back, above the waistband of blue jeans.
Quote lettering across lower back
Black and white flash design of a small bird perched on a branch above a three-part banner reading Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventures.
Bird on a branch with banner quote
Black and grey drawing of an ornate compass rose tattoo design with a fleur-de-lis at the top and the words Une Vie Extraordinaire around the ring.
Ornate compass rose design
Traditional style tattoo of a banjo wrapped in a banner reading Fire and Hail, with orange, red and teal flowers, on the upper arm.
Banjo, flowers and banner on upper arm
Black lettering tattoos across the fingers of a hand, with a lettering style placed on the fingers and nude stiletto nails decorated with rhinestones.
Letter tattoos across fingers with stiletto nails
Man wearing a grey top with full colour traditional tattoo sleeves on both arms and lettering across the hands, including the words Fate and Always.
Full colour traditional sleeves and hands
Black and grey script tattoo reading Strength and Beauty with looping flourishes across the upper chest, with a partial rose visible at the shoulders.
Strength and Beauty script across the chest
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two clasped hands with the words YOU ARE ENOUGH above them, on the inner upper arm.
Clasped hands with 'You are enough' lettering
Blue and black tribal symbol with a grey Libra scroll banner and blue stars, tattooed on the arm.
Libra scroll and stars on an arm
Upper arm tattoo of a love quote in black lettering inside an oval wreath of red, purple and blue flowers with green leaves.
Floral wreath with quote on upper arm
Fine line black and grey botanical tattoo of a peony with leaves above element tiles spelling BReAtHe, on the side of a ribcage.
Peony and periodic table tiles on ribs
Black fine-line silhouettes of flying figures and stars forming an infinity loop with the words Never and Grow Up, tattooed on the ribs.
Flying silhouettes and lettering on the ribs