Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Two photographs of black script lettering tattoos, one reading love is enough on the upper arm and a smaller fine line script on the forearm.
Script phrase tattoos on upper arm and forearm
Large unfilled black outline lettering in a blocky graffiti style across a person's upper back, with some reddening around the lines.
Large outlined block lettering across upper back
Realistic black and grey shaded door panels with red REDRUM lettering across a limb in a close crop of a tattoo.
Redrum lettering over shaded doors
Traditional style flash drawing of a straight razor with a wood grain handle, a brass FTW plate and red accents on a tan background.
Straight razor flash design
Framed traditional-style flash design of two blue swallows, red roses and striped banners with red lettering, displayed on a table.
Traditional swallows and roses flash in a frame
Fine line white script tattoo reading Love Life across the inner wrist.
Love Life script on a wrist
Black ink drawing of a planchette design with a central eye, YES, NO and GOODBYE lettering and dotwork shading on a white sheet.
Planchette with eye and YES NO GOODBYE lettering
Colour tattoo of a yellow sunflower with a grey centre and the words 'there's no place like home' in script above it, on an arm.
Sunflower with a 'no place like home' quote
Black fine line mountain range above the word Wanderlust in flowing script, tattooed on a foot.
Wanderlust script above mountains on a foot
Colour traditional tattoo of a pin-up woman in a star and stripe outfit holding a top hat, with a banner reading Kiss My American Ass, on a forearm.
Pin-up in stars and stripes with banner
Traditional style tattoo of an ornate grey heart with a keyhole and red accents on the chest, with a colourful tattoo on the forearm below.
Ornate heart and keyhole tattoo on the chest
Shirtless man with a black NY cap covering his face, showing traditional style roses, a heart and script lettering on his chest, abdomen and full sleeve tattoos on both arms.
Traditional roses and lettering across chest and arms
Black compass rose tattoo with red accents, dots and a circle of lettering on a person's upper back beside the shoulder blade.
Compass rose with circular lettering on back
Black and grey traditional flash design of a heart holding a hand clasping a cat paw, with a crescent moon, stars, a flower and the words Boys Whatever Cats Forever.
Heart with clasped hand and cat paw
Close view of black script lettering tattooed on the back of a hand, with a dark shirt sleeve and a white shirt label visible beside it.
Black script lettering on the back of a hand
Fine line black script running down a forearm, with a small sun tattoo on the back of the hand and a small arrow on the wrist.
Script lettering and small sun tattoos on forearms
Traditional style tattoo on the back of a hand showing a grey and black cat with pink-tinted hair buns, a robe and a banner reading NERF HERDER, beside a photo of the real cat.
Cat portrait tattoo with banner on the hand
Realistic black and grey thigh tattoo of a woman in a short dress reading an open book on a stack of books, with red shoes, a city skyline and the word Sanctuary beneath.
Woman reading on a stack of books with Sanctuary
Drawn tattoo design of a shaded rose beside ornate script reading love me, with a line of serif text reading That's all I ask of you, on a white background.
Love me script with shaded rose design
Traditional style flash design of a cartoon boy in a bow tie inside a scalloped heart framed by roses, with the words I choo choo choose you on banners.
I choo choo choose you heart flash
Flash sheet of three botanical designs: a coloured rose bouquet, a navy wreath with Stop and Smell the Roses lettering, and a floral heart with Joie de Vivre script.
Floral bouquet, rose wreath lettering and floral heart
Black and grey photograph of an infinity symbol tattoo on the inner wrist, with the words live the life you love in mixed lettering styles.
Live the life you love infinity wrist tattoo
Flash sheet of six black line infinity symbol designs, several with lettering such as faith, Strength, LOVE and HOPE, drawn on a white background.
Infinity symbol tattoo flash designs
Black linework lettering spelling the word AWAY, rotated sideways, on the sole of a foot, in a plain sans-serif style.
Word AWAY lettering on the sole of a foot
Black and grey flash design of a banner reading Life's A Gamble above playing cards, dice, a classic car and flames.
Life's a Gamble with cards, dice and car
Large back tattoo with Air Jordan lettering, winged emblem, the number 23 and a red bull head, shaded in red and grey ink alongside a grey portrait.
Air Jordan 23 and bull back piece
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo of a coffee mug with banners reading Death and Before Decaf on a leg.
Coffee mug with Death before decaf banners
Fine line tattoo of a red balloon with black string that flows down into the script words let it be, on the middle of a person's back.
Red balloon with script on the back
Black hand-lettered script reading Be you, bravely, set inside a looping wreath of leafy sprigs on a plain light background, shown as a tattoo design.
Be you, bravely lettering in a leafy wreath
Woman in a white tee with a yellow sun graphic, showing black lettering tattoos including KEEP and GRL PWR on her forearm.
Lettering tattoos on forearm beside a sun print tee
Black script lettering tattoo, appearing to read Protege, on the side of a ribcage in a lettering style.
Small script word tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey realism leg sleeve tattoo of a lion with daisies, a pocket watch and a scroll banner, running from the thigh down the calf.
Lion and flower leg sleeve
Black ink flash design of a palm tree with the words Less Monday and More summer set in brush script either side of the trunk.
Palm tree with "Less Monday, more summer" lettering
Traditional-style tattoo of a yellow banner with a script phrase, a teal ribbon and a teal-tipped arrow on the outer forearm.
Arrow and banner on a forearm
Black and grey ink flash design of a scorpion inside a flask, framed by blackberry leaves and mushrooms, with the word Scorpio beneath, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Scorpion in a flask with botanical leaves
Black script reading forever and always with a date inside a blue-shaded infinity loop, shown beside the pencil sketch it was drawn from.
Forever and always infinity script tattoo
Traditional style colour tattoo of a pale blue diamond with orange banners reading SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND, on the upper arm.
Diamond with Shine On You Crazy Diamond banners
Close-up of a dark script tattoo reading "it's only rock 'n' roll" on the inner forearm of a person with long blonde hair and silver rings.
Script quote on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a cartoon pizza slice with bat wings, fangs and the word VAMPIZZA above it, in a bold traditional style on a leg.
Vampizza pizza slice with bat wings
Close-up of the word Believe in black and pink script lettering with swash flourishes below, on the upper back.
Believe script lettering on upper back
Black and grey feather tattoo with script lettering above it on the lower back, worn above a colourful bikini bottom.
Feather with script lettering on lower back
Black and white photo of a fine line script lettering tattoo across the ribs, reading Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words.
Script quote on the ribs
Black script lettering tattoo reading Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, placed on the side of the torso above the hip.
Two-line script quote tattoo on the side torso
Back view of a woman with a fine line script tattoo running down her spine and a shaded black and grey rose on her upper arm.
Script down the spine with a rose on the arm
Fine-line black script lettering tattoo on the back of a person's neck, just behind the ear, with dark hair pinned up.
Fine script lettering on the back of the neck
Two forearms in black and grey showing matching heart outline tattoos with the words lil sister and big sister written in script on the forearms.
Matching big and lil sister heart tattoos
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the words you are beautiful, you are valuable, you are enough, with small birds, on a forearm.
Quote and birds on a forearm
Black Greek script lettering tattooed diagonally across the back of a hand, in a thin, hand-drawn style.
Greek word lettering on the hand