Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Back view of a leg covered in black and grey script and sleeve-style designs, with a colour traditional pin-up woman on the calf and a small tattoo at the ankle.
Leg tattoos with pin-up and script
Black and grey fine line tattoo of angular lettering resembling GOD on the back of a neck, above a checked shirt collar.
Angular lettering on the back of the neck
Colour traditional tattoo of a skeleton-faced black cat, a red rose and blue flowers above a banner reading Siempre en mi corazon, on the upper arm.
Skeleton cat and rose banner on upper arm
Black script lettering reading 'And though she be but little, She is fierce' tattooed on a person's ribs, with a dark top visible below.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black tattoo of a cross with bold block lettering on the upper arm, shown in a bathroom photo.
Cross and block lettering on upper arm
Traditional style flash sheet of ten designs, including a green bird, a spider web, a red and black Spider-Man head, snakes, praying hands and a jack-o-lantern, with banner lettering.
Traditional flash sheet of mixed designs
Traditional style tattoo of solid red lips with a protruding tongue and the words Cherry Bomb in cream lettering, on skin.
Red lips with tongue and Cherry Bomb lettering
Bold black lettering tattoo reading HOPE across the upper back, with the words INSIDE ALL OF US IS inside the O, in a lettering style.
HOPE lettering tattoo across the upper back
Red script lettering reading 'You are my sunshine' with a small sun beside it, tattooed on skin just below a grey garment hem.
You are my sunshine script with a sun
Realistic owl tattoo on the upper back with black and red paint splashes and red WATCH OUT lettering across the lower half.
Realistic owl with splatter and red lettering
Colour tattoo of Finn riding Jake from Adventure Time, with Finn raising a sword above a red banner reading MATHEMATICAL, on the thigh.
Finn and Jake riding with a banner on thigh
Black ink lettering tattoo on a forearm, with the words my best friend, my lover and my husband arranged around a heart outline and a script word in the centre.
Heart lettering tattoo on a forearm
Black line drawing flash of a pocket watch with roses, leaves and a chain, with a script banner of lettering beneath, styled as a traditional tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses with script banner
Black and coloured flash sheet showing a city skyline, birds in flight, circular emblems of a flame, hand, scales, eye and tree, and two ferris wheels, with the word divergent in script.
Flash sheet of skyline, birds, emblems and ferris wheels
Black ink line drawing on cream paper of a banner reading PRONE TO WANDER above pine trees, a stag and hatched hills, a design with no body placement shown.
Prone to wander banner with pine trees and deer
Black script lettering reading 'This too shall pass' tattooed across the inner wrist in a fine line lettering style.
Script lettering reading 'This too shall pass'
Traditional style tattoo on a lower leg of a blue and black striped dress with the words WHITE AND GOLD? above and below it.
Striped dress with WHITE AND GOLD? lettering
Black line flash sheet of Harry Potter themed tattoo designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and quoted lettering.
Harry Potter themed tattoo design sheet
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading believe in yourself on a shoulder.
Believe in yourself script on shoulder
Close-up of a small fine line black script tattoo of a short handwritten phrase on the upper arm, with a black and white striped sleeve above.
Fine line script on an upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of handwritten script, a musical staff with notes and a treble clef on the inner forearm.
Script and music staff on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo on a forearm reading MAGIC, with a triangle, circle and vertical line symbol in place of the letter A.
MAGIC lettering with triangle symbol on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a Batman comic scene with BATMAN lettering and a bat symbol across the upper arm.
Batman comic scene on upper arm
Three forearms side by side, each with a small stack of three outlined and filled triangles in black and grey fine line style on the inner forearm.
Three matching triangle tattoos on forearms
Fine line black script tattoo reading Smile on the side of a ribcage, with several moles visible on the surrounding skin.
Smile script on ribs
Colour traditional tattoo of a red and white lighthouse among waves and palm trees, with the words THE SEA WAS ANGRY THAT DAY beneath, on an upper arm.
Lighthouse and stormy sea on an arm
Traditional colour tattoo of a red potion bottle with banners reading "You're the antidote for everything except for me" on a forearm.
Potion bottle and banner quote on a forearm
Black lettering and linework tattoo of a TARDIS police box above the script words We're All Stories In The End, on the inner forearm.
TARDIS and script quote on a forearm
Black flash design of four animal paw prints above the script words Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs on a white background.
Four paw prints with script names
Red and cream woodcut-style drawing of a top hat with the words WE ARE ALL MAD HERE lettered across its crown, with radiating lines either side.
We are all mad here top hat
Realism-style black and grey tattoo of two dog tags on a chain across a forearm, with lettering stamped on the tags.
Dog tags with chain on a forearm
Black linework lettering design on a white background reading And so the adventure begins, with flourished capitals and underlines.
And so the adventure begins lettering
Hand-lettered black text reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with a flock of black bats, on a yellow background; a lettering design that could be used as a tattoo.
Lettering design with bats on yellow
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on the outer thigh of a man in a suit, his head replaced by a UFO over pine trees and mountains, with the words DO YOU THINK I'M and SPOOKY.
Suited figure with UFO and mountains on thigh
Cross stitch of a red heart with a white banner reading MOM and a small pink rose, in a traditional tattoo style on dark navy fabric.
Cross stitch heart with MOM banner
Black line flash sheet of twelve crescent moon designs, each labelled with a month and a moon name and filled with a geometric symbol.
Twelve monthly moon flash designs
Small black lettering reading GRL PWR sits on the outer thigh of a seated person in black underwear and a white shirt.
GRL PWR lettering on a thigh
Black fine line script lettering runs down a person's forearm while they hold a vintage twin lens camera against a grey door.
Script lettering on a forearm
Fine line tattoo of a steaming coffee cup on a saucer, flanked by laurel sprigs and a handwritten phrase, on the upper chest.
Coffee cup and laurel sprigs on the chest
Black line drawing of a heart outline containing blackletter-style lettering that reads Family, with a large decorative initial F, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Family lettering in a heart outline
Colour traditional-style tattoo of two crossed bacon strips with a banner reading I heart BACON and EAT MEAT below, on a limb.
Crossed bacon strips with I heart bacon banner
Coloured flash illustration of a cartoon woman with brown curls and a beast emblem tattoo on her shoulder, framed by roses and a banner reading 'Til the last petal falls.
Cartoon woman with roses and banner flash
Pencil sketch flash design in neo-traditional style showing a cat with pearls, roses, a fan, a ribbon banner reading Must Love Cats and two stylised women, with no placement shown.
Cat, roses and Must Love Cats banner design
A man seen from behind in a black beanie and olive t-shirt, with black and grey tattoos on his left forearm and upper arm.
Black and grey tattoos on a forearm
Fine line tattoo of a red watercolour-style poppy at the top of a woman's back, with a thin stem and cursive script running down the spine.
Red poppy with script down the spine
Black and grey pencil flash design on lined paper showing a rabbit-masked figure with ribs, a jet, a heart, a book, a knife and speech bubbles.
Rabbit-masked figure design sketch
Two versions of a black and purple lettering design with a cross arc, a heart and the words God, hearts made us friends and sisters, shown with no body placement.
Lettering design reading God and sisters
Hand-drawn black ink lettering sheet of the numbers 0 to 9, an exclamation mark and an ampersand, in a decorative lettering style suitable as tattoo flash.
Hand-drawn numerals and symbols sheet