Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black line drawing flash design of a winged bat over a ribbon banner reading Children of the Night, What Music They Make, with a castle and roses below.
Bat, castle and roses banner design
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a skull, roses and a banner reading Dead men tell no tales, in a neo-trad lettering style.
Skull and banner lettering design
Traditional style flash design of a dagger dripping blood, wrapped in lettered banners over a drawn arm with a spider web and rose.
Dagger and banners flash with blood
Fine line black script tattoo reading soror mea amica mea across the side of the ribs, above a faint healed band of skin.
Fine line script phrase on the side ribs
Six black script lettering designs of the words Stand up, in varied flowing and bold handwritten styles, shown as a tattoo flash sheet.
Stand up script lettering designs
Neo-traditional tattoo on a calf of a black poodle in a red Starfleet-style uniform, holding a phaser, set against an orange flame burst, with a badge reading SISKO below.
Poodle in Starfleet uniform on a calf
Colour tattoo of a feather with the words Strength lies within in black script, across the calf, in blue, orange and grey shading.
Feather with script lettering on a calf
Black and grey tattoo on a forearm spelling COEXIST, with the letters replaced by a rounded ear, a figure in a wheelchair, braille dots, crossed sticks and a cross, in front of green and orange floral
Coexist lettering on a forearm
Collage of small black fine line tattoos drawn from classic books, shown on upper arms, forearms, shoulders and backs.
Literary tattoos on arms and backs
Black script lettering runs down the spine of a woman with her hair in a bun, shown from behind on the upper back.
Script lettering down the spine
Two photographs: black script reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good on the side of a torso, and black lettering reading Mischief Managed with flourishes on a forearm.
Script quote and lettering tattoos on skin
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a lantern with an eye in a triangle and a banner reading WHERE WILL THIS ROAD LEAD, on the forearm.
Lantern with eye and banner on a forearm
Two handprints in grey ink on the side of a torso, with script lettering above and below them.
Two handprints with script names on the side
Colour tattoo of a blue and pink butterfly above script reading Life is a Beautiful Struggle, with a trail of smaller butterflies, on the upper arm or thigh.
Butterflies and Life is a Beautiful Struggle script
Black lettering tattoo reading BAD WOLF across the inner wrist, in a casual hand-drawn script, photographed with the palm raised.
Bad Wolf lettering on a wrist
Black and grey realism tattoo of orchids and lilies with cursive script on an upper arm and shoulder.
Orchids and script on an upper arm
Black and grey realism portrait of a man in sunglasses with block lettering and red splashes, tattooed on a forearm.
Portrait and lettering sleeve on a forearm
Pencil sketch of a ribbon threaded with pearls, topped by a small pink heart, with a word written on the ribbon tail; it is a drawing on paper, not a tattoo on skin.
Pearl ribbon design with a pink heart
Traditional style colour tattoo of a weathered wooden outhouse under an orange sun, with a banner reading IT NEVER ENDS.
Outhouse and It Never Ends banner
Two forearms with black lettering tattoos: "Trust Your Struggle" in cursive script on the upper arm and "UNUM ARBITRIO VARIAT OMNIA" in serif capitals on the lower arm.
Script and Latin lettering on two forearms
Fine line black tattoo of a state outline with cursive lettering and a small red heart, placed on the upper chest.
State outline with script lettering on chest
Black and grey serif lettering reading OMNIA CAUSA FIUNT, set in stacked diagonal lines across a person's upper arm.
Latin phrase on upper arm
Flash sheet of four cartoon fox designs in neo-traditional style, each with a banner and flowers, the banners reading Be Quiet, Don't Talk To Me, Gross and Please Leave.
Four fox flash designs with banners
Black lettering tattoo in Latin script running along a forearm, with another hand touching the skin in a pale, warm-toned photo.
Latin lettering tattoo on a forearm
Black brush-script lettering reading in the waves of change we find our direction, framed by an arrow at the top and bottom, shown as a flash design.
Quote lettering with arrows flash design
Colour tattoo of a round green door set into a hillside beneath a tree, with pink flowers and the words There and Back Again, on the calf.
Round green door and tree on a calf
Three stacked panels of ornate hand-lettered design: a pen-and-ink sketch of the words Black Magic on paper, a blurred close-up of white and red outlined letters on black, and a close-up of
Black Magic ornate lettering design
Black and grey tattoo on a forearm showing a solid bat emblem between two lines of rotated lettering, one reading why do we fall and the other so we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Bat emblem and quote on a forearm
Traditional style forearm tattoo of a red and grey anchor wrapped in banners reading Hold Fast, 604 and In Christ, with blue roses.
Traditional anchor and roses on a forearm
Black lettering reading We're all mad here set inside a spade outline with blue filigree swirls, tattooed on the outer thigh.
Spade with 'We're all mad here' lettering on thigh
Black ink script lettering flash sheet with ornate words including Ginger, Beautifully and Fish Stories, plus a lowercase alphabet, with no body part shown.
Script lettering flash sheet
Black and grey realism tattoo on the upper back showing a pocket compass, a chain and the script words To Die Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure.
Compass and quote lettering on a shoulder blade
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a curved heart outline with the words Beautifully Wonderfully Made in handwritten script and Psalm 139:14 beside it, with no body placement shown.
Pencil sketch of a heart with scripture lettering
Black lettering tattoo reading I refuse to sink with a small anchor and a swirl, on the top of a foot, in a lettering style.
I refuse to sink lettering with anchor on a foot
Black and grey fine line cross above a vertical script quote tattooed down the centre of a person's back.
Small cross and vertical script on a back
Black and grey realism tattoo on the forearm of a man with swept-back hair in a dark jacket, his hands gripping the lapels beneath a banner reading THE KING IS DEAD.
Black and grey portrait with banner on forearm
Black lettering reading Victim with a line through it above Survivor, with a coloured pencil and pink eraser, tattooed on a forearm.
Crossed-out Victim and Survivor lettering with pencil
Black script lettering reading Come together on the inner forearm, with a dark elastic band just below it.
Come together script on a forearm
Four black line drawing designs of the Deathly Hallows triangle, circle and line symbol paired with the word Always in script lettering, with one version adding small stars.
Deathly Hallows symbol with Always lettering designs
Two side-by-side photos of a teal puzzle piece tattoo with fine black script, one reading like mother and the other reading like daughter, on skin.
Teal puzzle piece with 'like mother' script
Colour tattoo on a forearm of a blue TARDIS police box above the word Geronimo in black lettering, with a red fez and bow tie, on a loose watercolour splash.
TARDIS and Geronimo on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a lion head in profile with a full mane and Gurmukhi script above it, on a person's upper back.
Realistic lion head with script on upper back
Close-up of the word CONTINUE tattooed in black lettering on a forearm, with the I replaced by a semicolon.
Continue lettering with semicolon on forearm
Colour tattoo of the Mopar logo with blue flames and black MOPAR lettering on the upper arm.
Mopar logo with blue flames on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a tomahawk forming a cross, with a wood-grain handle, lettering on the blade and a feather with teal beads, on a forearm.
Tomahawk cross with feather on a forearm
Close photograph of a small black fine-line lettering tattoo on the back of a person's neck, with hair pulled up and a stud earring visible.
Small lettering on the back of the neck
Twelve month names from January to December in black blackletter lettering with flourishes, drawn on textured white paper, shown as a vertical strip.
Twelve month names in blackletter lettering
Set of pencil lettering sketches for a tattoo design with decorative block and script letters, shaded ribbon banner and flourishes, shown without a body placement.
Lettering sketches with ribbon banner and flourishes