Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional style colour tattoo of an anchor with an orange ribbon and the words I refuse to sink in black script, on a limb.
Anchor with ribbon and script on skin
Black linework drawing of a pair of legs in high heels, covered in traditional-style tattoo flash designs such as a heart banner, anchor, spider web and skull across the calves.
Traditional flash designs on drawn legs
Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing a red wax-sealed envelope, two red roses, blue forget-me-nots and a banner with lettering.
Envelope, roses and banner on upper arm
Black and grey flash design of a pin-up skeleton woman and a top-hatted skeleton man holding hands, with a banner quote above and below them.
Skeleton couple with banner quote
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a lighthouse with banner lettering on a person's calf, shown beside a black and grey flash design of the same lighthouse.
Lighthouse banner tattoo on a calf
Colour traditional tattoo of a stack of books with lettered spines reading There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more, on a lower arm.
Stacked book spines with lettering on a forearm
Black and grey traditional style tattoo on the forearm showing a house with a scalloped roof, dotted smoke, a TAKE CARE banner and a rope knot.
House and rope knot with TAKE CARE banner
Two black and grey traditional swallow designs on white fabric, each with a ribbon banner reading HIS on the top and HERS below.
Traditional swallow designs labelled his and hers
Traditional style colour tattoo of a lit candle with a drip-covered purple and blue wax body and a brass holder, with the words A FIRE INSIDE beneath, on the upper arm.
Candle with A FIRE INSIDE lettering
Traditional style tattoo of an hourglass with a red blood drip, the words TO GET YOU OFF MY MIND and a blue flower below, on the forearm.
Hourglass with blood drip and blue flower
Three hand-coloured traditional flash designs on paper, showing a red heart, a blue rose and a blue swallow, each with a scroll banner carrying names.
Heart, rose and swallow flash designs
Black line drawing of a snarling wolf head pierced by a dagger, with a Winter is Coming banner and snowflakes, shown as a tattoo design.
Wolf head and dagger with Winter is Coming banner
Colour tattoo of a swallow among pink cherry blossom branches with the word Nanny in black script, shown in two close photos on a leg.
Swallow and cherry blossom with script on a leg
Traditional style colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a teapot, teacup, red flowers and green leaves above a orange banner that reads TEA LOVER.
Tea lover banner with teapot and flowers on upper arm
Traditional-style tattoo of a red anatomical heart pierced by arrows, with a banner reading WE ARE NOT OUR FAILURES, on the upper arm.
Heart with arrows and banner
Black line drawing of a flying saucer over a desert with cacti, an eye motif and the lettering Just Hold On We're Going Home, in a traditional flash style.
UFO and lettering tattoo design
Colour traditional tattoo of a sloth hanging from a leafy branch with a banner reading nap all day, sleep all night, party never, on a limb.
Sloth on a banner with nap and sleep lettering
Colour traditional tattoo of a gold pocket watch reading WELL SPENT, with pink and teal roses and green leaves, on an upper arm.
Pocket watch and roses with WELL SPENT dial
Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing a black and grey flying saucer with a rainbow beam, sparkles and the words Do you think I'm spooky.
UFO with rainbow beam on upper arm
Traditional tattoo on a calf showing a woman in profile and a tabby cat facing each other inside a black heart, with flowers and the words BOYS WHATEVER and CATS FOREVER.
Woman and cat in a heart on a calf
Black and grey shield tattoo with a crescent moon, stars, pine trees, a tent and a campfire, and the words Adventure Awaits on a banner, on a limb.
Adventure Awaits shield with campfire scene
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red heart with a banner reading FUCK THAT, framed by yellow flowers and green and black spikes, on an upper arm.
Traditional heart with banner and flowers
Side of a torso with traditional tattoos: a colour ship in an oval with a banner, and a black outline dagger wrapped in ribbon with red lettering on the ribs.
Traditional ship, dagger and lettering on ribs
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing a central urn, a hand holding a dagger, a bird, an eye, a pipe, flowers, arrows and script lettering.
Black and grey flash sheet with urn and hand
Traditional-style flash design of a blue teacup with a skull and crossbones, coffee spilling out, framed by two scroll banners of lettering on a red splash background.
Skull teacup with coffee banners
Traditional flash sheet of four designs in colour: chess pieces with a rose, a sunset over waves, an hourglass with a skull, and a fox with pine trees, above a BRAND NEW banner.
Traditional flash sheet with rose, fox and hourglass
Navy line drawing of a bearded sailor in a striped top and cap, with tattooed arms, anchor and rope, and the lettering A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Sailor flash with smooth sea lettering
Black ink pen drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds, rays and an anchor, in a lettering style suited to a
Hot air balloon with journey banner design
Two hands with traditional tattoos: a red-eyed wolf head on the back of one hand, a woman in a beanie on the other, and black lettering across the fingers.
Wolf and portrait hand tattoos with lettering
Traditional tattoo of a red rose with green leaves above a black banner with lettering, on the inner forearm of a person wearing a dark top and black trousers.
Rose and banner lettering on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a black umbrella with a green bird-head handle and a red banner reading Anything Can Happen, on a forearm.
Umbrella with banner on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoos reading LOVE HER and I LOVE HIM across two fingers in a lettering style, with a small motif above the first word, photographed on a wooden surface.
Love her and love him finger lettering
Traditional style flash design of a skateboard with a lettered banner, orange flames and two blue flowers, with no body placement shown.
Skateboard with flames and blue flowers
Two mirrored traditional tattoos on an upper arm, showing a blue-visor pilot helmet above a blue rose and a dark trooper-style helmet above a red rose, with banners reading Standing By and Move Along.
Pilot helmets and roses on upper arm
Pen drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design on paper, with two banners reading Fatally Yours, a skull, a heart, a flower and leaves, shown without a body placement.
Fatally Yours banners with skull and flower
Colour traditional tattoo of a red heart with a dagger, an AS IF banner, red flowers and green leaves on a leg.
Traditional heart with dagger and AS IF banner
Two carved wooden arm and hand boards showing traditional-style tattoo designs of skulls, a heart with a dagger, a goat, a cat and flowers, in black and cream.
Carved arm boards with skull, goat and cat designs
Traditional style colour tattoo of a pin-up woman in a red outfit holding an anchor rope, with a banner reading Steady as she goes, on the body.
Pin-up and anchor with banner on skin
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of two pink roses, a star and an eye in a triangle on a woman's upper arm and shoulder.
Roses, star and eye on upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a cartoon character with glasses and a green jacket, arms folded, above blue roses and the words I HATE EVERYONE, on a thigh.
Cartoon character and roses on a thigh
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a compass rose, two pink roses and a banner reading Not All Who Wander Are Lost, on the upper back.
Compass and roses with banner on upper back
Two black ink thigh tattoos in traditional style, a ship's wheel and an anchor wrapped in rope, each with script lettering, on a person wearing denim shorts.
Ship wheel and anchor thigh tattoos
Traditional style tattoo of a Darth Vader helmet with blue and purple flowers, green leaves and an orange banner reading YOU WERE RIGHT, on the upper arm.
Darth Vader helmet with banner on upper arm
Traditional colour tattoo of a swallow above a cherry pie with banners reading FRESH and TIL DEATH, on the outer thigh.
Swallow and cherry pie on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a blue TARDIS police box wrapped in pink banners with lettering, in a traditional style, on the lower leg.
TARDIS with banner lettering on a leg
Colour traditional-style tattoo on an upper thigh showing a golden droid head with round glasses, a banner reading CURSE MY METAL BODY, and red, yellow and teal flowers and leaves.
Droid head with Curse My Metal Body banner on thigh
Traditional black and grey tattoo of a raptor claw with the words Clever Girl on a scroll banner, on a forearm, with a dark rose partly visible below.
Raptor claw with Clever Girl banner
Colour traditional tattoo of an hourglass wrapped in banners reading MORE FUN and LESS FEAR, surrounded by hibiscus flowers and buds on a limb.
Hourglass with banners and flowers