Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Coloured flash design of a rose, sunflower, leaves, helmet and a pen-like tool, with banners reading DEMONS RUN, WHEN A GOOD MAN and GOES TO WAR, in a neo-traditional style.
Banner and rose design with sunflower and helmet
Black and grey dotwork design of an anatomical heart framing a room with a chair and hanging light bulb, above the words YOU LIVE THERE.
Anatomical heart with chair and light bulb
Colourful script tattoo on an upper back spelling AUTISM down the centre, with puzzle pieces in red, blue, yellow, purple and green.
Autism acrostic with puzzle pieces on upper back
Neo-trad style tattoo design of two fantasy characters back to back, one masked, above a cream banner reading I'll See You Again, with no body placement shown.
Two fantasy characters with a scroll banner
Traditional style flash design of the BB-8 droid with red roses, a sunburst and a banner reading They See Me Rollin.
BB-8 droid with roses and banner
Black and white photo of two people's sides, each with a fine line script tattoo on the ribs: a ship's wheel with a quote on the left and an anchor with a quote on the right.
Ship's wheel and anchor with script on the sides
Two matching black script tattoos reading We shall never drift apart with an anchor, one on the top of a foot and one on a forearm.
Matching anchor and quote tattoos on foot and forearm
Black and white photo of the word grace in thin, lowercase fine line lettering on the inner wrist and forearm.
Lowercase word grace on an inner wrist
Black spider tattoo above the My Chemical Romance logo in black and red lettering, on the inner forearm of a person wearing studded wristbands.
Spider and band logo on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo on the side of a thigh showing a stack of three books beneath the script words I've lived a thousand lives.
Stack of books and a quote on the thigh
Traditional style tattoo of a cartoon white cat with a pink bow and the words Bitch Please I'm Fabulous on a forearm.
Cartoon cat and lettering on a forearm
Two photographs of black lettering tattoos: "I'm fine" on the outer thigh above the knee, and "save me" on the ankle of a raised foot, both in a plain black script.
"I'm fine" and "save me" lettering on legs
Traditional-style tattoo on an arm showing a grey hat with a black ribbon and a small red rose, with the words UGH and AS IF above and below.
Hat and rose with UGH AS IF lettering
Black fine line peacock feather tattoo on the side of the ribs, with lettering in an invented script running beside it.
Peacock feather and lettering on the ribs
Black and grey flash design of a Darth Vader helmet with stippled shading, two roses and leaves, and the words Who's Your Daddy arched above.
Darth Vader helmet with roses flash
Two side-by-side photos of matching deer-symbol tattoos, a green camouflage buck with the words Her Buck and a pink camouflage doe with the words His Doe, on skin.
Matching buck and doe camo tattoos
Colour tattoo on a thigh of a smiling Vault Boy with folded arms in front of a mushroom cloud, with the words prepare for the future above.
Vault Boy and mushroom cloud on a thigh
Black and grey traditional-style flash design of two ghosts in a framed panel, with the lettering No Feet beneath them and a spiderweb behind.
Two ghosts in a framed box with No Feet
Black fine line tattoo of a galloping horse with the words stay strong in cursive script on the inner forearm.
Horse and stay strong script on forearm
Fine line black script lettering runs from the ankle down the side of a bare foot, with a second foot beside it.
Script quotation running along the foot
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of a glass candy jar full of eyeballs, labelled Eye Candy, with a skull on a bow, shown on the thigh.
Eye candy jar of eyeballs on thigh
Two blue wrist tattoos: the word Duke in blackletter-style script on the left, and an outlined Hello Kitty holding an orange basketball on the right.
Duke lettering and Hello Kitty wrist tattoos
Traditional style tattoo of a red and yellow rose with green leaves and a black banner of lettering across the inner forearm.
Red rose and banner lettering on a forearm
Black and grey script lettering with shaded edges across a man's forearm, placed on the forearm, with a skull tattoo partly visible at the bottom right.
Script name lettering on a forearm
Realism tattoo of the Cheshire Cat wearing a top hat with a percentage tag, with the words We're all Mad here in script below, on the inner ankle.
Cheshire Cat in a top hat with lettering
Black lettering in a typewriter-style font reads "We were born ready, ready to be free. Chasin' every thrill we could see" on the forearm, in a Lettering tattoo.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Black and grey feather tattoo with flying birds and script lettering reading alis volat propriis on the side ribs.
Feather and birds with Latin script
Black and white photo of a forearm with the words LOVE WILL TEAR US APART tattooed in bold block capitals against a dark background.
Love will tear us apart lettering on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading inhale exhale across the upper chest, shown on bare skin beside a white top.
Inhale exhale script on the chest
Flash drawing of a black cat with a pentacle on its head, a blackletter banner reading Harm none, Do as ye wilt, and a row of moon phases above.
Black cat with banner and moon phases
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo of an eye with roses on the back of a hand, with lettering on the fingers and a further tattoo partly visible on the forearm.
Eye and rose tattoo on the hand
Black line drawing design of the word ADVENTURE in hand-drawn lettering, with solid mountains, a bow and arrow, a pine tree and an acorn formed into the letters.
Adventure lettering with mountains and arrow
Black and teal heart-shaped lettering tattoo with filigree scrollwork on the thigh, photographed on a leg in patterned pyjamas.
Heart lettering tattoo on thigh
Black and white photo of a fine line script quote tattooed along the side of an ankle and foot, reading What you think, you become.
Script quote along an ankle
Fine line black tattoo on a forearm showing a compass with a fern, mountain peaks, a rain cloud and the letters PNW.
Compass with fern, mountains and rain on a forearm
Black tattoo of the word curiouser in looping script within oval outlines, with one copy inverted, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Curiouser script tattoo on the inner arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a lion's face beside a compass rose on the upper arm and shoulder, with the words Revelation 5:5 running down the arm.
Lion and compass on upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the outline of the state of Texas on the inner forearm, with the word TEXAS in block lettering on the wrist, in a black and white photo.
Texas state outline and word on forearm
Cream line drawing of an eye on a dark background, with the words Don't Look Back set into the outline of the eye in a lettering design.
Eye with Don't Look Back lettering
Two hands with matching thin black script tattoos on the fingers, reading mr and mrs, in a fine line lettering style.
Matching mr and mrs finger tattoos
Black ink flash drawing of a cartoon penguin in a bow tie, framed by flowers and two banners reading It Ain't Easy and Been Wheezy, in a traditional style.
Penguin with banners flash design
Black hand-lettered script design reading The Struggle is part of the Story on a cream background, drawn as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Script lettering: The Struggle is part of the Story
Black fine line lettering reading BABE IS BUSY on the outer upper arm of a woman in a grey t-shirt seated in a salon chair.
Small black lettering on an upper arm
Black line drawing flash design of a thread spool with crossed needles, a crown, scissors and a banner reading Make Things, in a traditional ornamental style.
Spool, needles and Make Things banner
Black and grey fine line cursive script tattoo running down the forearm of a person whose raised arm is shown against a grey wall.
Cursive script on a forearm
Two people show matching black and grey script name tattoos with footprint outlines, one on the side of the ribs and one on the upper back.
Matching script name and footprint tattoos
Black and white photo of a black script tattoo reading Forever 18 with two small butterflies, sitting on the lower abdomen above an underwear waistband, with a hand resting at the left edge.
Forever 18 script on the lower abdomen
Neo-traditional tattoo of a yellow songbird carrying a red banner with lettering, with black sprigs, on a person's upper back near the shoulder.
Yellow songbird with banner on shoulder