Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Vertical flash sheet of black and grey engraved designs, including a skull with candle, an eye, crossed bones, hands, scales and a plague doctor, with Latin lettering.
Vertical sheet of occult and engraved motifs
Fine line black tattoo of two small footprints above the script words you are my sunshine, on the top of a woman's foot.
Footprints and script lettering on a foot
Black script tattoo reading Geronimo with a small bow beneath it, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Geronimo script with a bow on the upper chest
Pencil drawing of a shaded balloon on a long thin string, with the words let it go beneath it, shown as a flash-style design with no body placement.
Balloon on a string with let it go
Black and white photo of a bare foot with fine line script lettering reading never stop dancing across the top.
Never stop dancing script on a foot
Black and grey cartoon-style tattoo of a smiling dark-haired character holding a saw, with chain-like lettering above, on the lower leg.
Cartoon character with a saw on a leg
Six black ink handwritten versions of the word hazel stacked vertically on white, varying from bold brush strokes to thin flowing lines, shown as lettering design options with no body placement.
Hazel in six handwritten script styles
Traditional style flash sheet of red and black heart designs, including a dagger through a heart, a rose with a MOM banner, and swallows with LOVE ALWAYS lettering.
Traditional heart flash sheet
Colour botanical tattoo of a blossoming tree with exposed roots and a banner reading Family, across the ribs on the side of the torso.
Blossoming tree with roots on the ribs
Black and grey owl tattoo with a pentagram on the head, wings and scrollwork across the shoulder and upper arm, with script lettering on the chest.
Owl and pentagram shoulder and arm piece
Black fine line script tattoo reading omnia mutantur nihil interit across the inner forearm.
Latin script quote on a forearm
Black and grey pencil flash design of a money tree with banknotes falling from its branches, two devil figures and the words Money the root of all evil.
Money tree sketch with devil figures
Black script lettering set in several vertical lines across the upper back, shown in a close-up photograph of the skin.
Vertical script lettering across upper back
Black and grey hourglass tattoo with ornate Time Is Money lettering on a forearm, in lettering style with shading.
Hourglass and Time is Money lettering on a forearm
Two colour cartoon tattoos on skin: a pink train saying I CHOO-CHOO-CHOOSE YOU with red hearts on the left, and a cartoon old man holding a paddle with THAT'S PADDLIN' lettering on the right.
Cartoon train and paddling old man tattoos
Traditional tattoo of two swallows above and below a LIVE FREE banner, with yellow flowers, on the upper arm.
Two swallows and LIVE FREE banner on upper arm
Colour tattoo of the comic character Deadpool reclining and holding a pistol, with a speech bubble above him, in a comic-book style on skin of the upper back.
Deadpool reclining with a speech bubble
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with scrolled flourishes above and below, against blue fabric.
e.e. cummings quote tattoo on the thigh
Black and grey flash sheet of numbered and lettered designs for the word The, shown in script, blackletter, block and ornamental styles, with no body placement.
Lettering sheet of the word The in many styles
Black and grey realism rose sleeve on an upper arm and a script and pocket watch tattoo on a thigh, shown on a woman crouching outdoors.
Rose sleeve and script thigh tattoo outdoors
Colour lettering tattoo spelling Goonies in a red, orange and yellow gradient with dark outlines, above black lettering reading never say die, on skin.
Goonies logo lettering tattoo
Black script lettering design reading Love me for who I am on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Script lettering reading Love me for who I am
Realism tattoo of a one dollar banknote with a grey portrait on a green background, placed on the forearm near the wrist.
Dollar bill tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey tattoos on both forearms showing a stack of book spines, large quotation marks and lettering, with small sketched flying figures near the wrist.
Book spines and quotes on both forearms
Black lettering tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back, with stars and a crescent moon, across a person's upper back shoulder, with a grey rose tattoo visible at the edge of the frame.
I love you to the moon and back on a shoulder
Black ink tattoo on skin of a silver fern leaf formed from marching soldier silhouettes, with the script words Lest we forget beneath it.
Silver fern of marching soldiers with Lest we forget
Close-up of a small black lettering tattoo in blackletter style running vertically along the inside of a forearm, with a woven bracelet and a gold band above it.
Small blackletter word on a forearm
Traditional flash sheet with a green umbrella over a red rose and a path of raindrops, beside an anatomical heart, each with a scroll banner of lettering.
Umbrella, rose and anatomical heart flash
Back view of a person with a densely tattooed back and arms, featuring a large grey hexagon, a crested eagle and engraved-style vintage motifs in realism style.
Full back tattoo with hexagon and eagle crest
Two pixel-art red heart tattoos with black outlines, one on the forearm and one on the wrist beside the words Allons-y in black script.
Pixel hearts and a lettered wrist tattoo
Two feet show matching black script lettering reading You'll never walk alone, running along the outer foot in lettering style.
Script quote along the outer foot
Black and grey script tattoo reading Semper Fi with swirling flourishes and a black eagle, globe and anchor emblem on a forearm.
Semper Fi script and eagle emblem on forearm
Raised fist showing a wrist design of black and pink lettering reading I'm with Lucy's hen party, with a pink cocktail glass beneath.
Hen party lettering and cocktail glass on wrist
Close-up of a red stamp-style VOID tattoo with blue-grey lettering beneath it on an upper arm.
Red VOID stamp tattoo on upper arm
Black hand-drawn lettering design of phrases arranged in the shape of a cross, shown as a flash-style tattoo design on a white background.
Text cross lettering design
Black ink hand-lettered script design reading I loved you at your darkest, with Romans 5:8 beside it, drawn on white paper as a lettering design.
Script lettering: I loved you at your darkest
Traditional style tattoo of a pink rose with green leaves above the lyric How Strange It Is To Be Anything At All in a scrolled black cartouche, on a lower leg.
Pink rose and quote on a calf
Fine line black tattoo of the word OHANA with a thin arrow running through the letters, across the inner wrist.
Ohana word and arrow on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading Carpe Diem inside an infinity symbol on a forearm, in a script lettering style.
Carpe Diem script in an infinity symbol
Colour watercolour-style splash tattoo with a black semicolon and dot on the forearm, with the word Love in script above it.
Watercolour splash and semicolon on a forearm
Black and grey line drawing of six rows of interlocking circles in a Gallifreyan-style circular script, each row with a small grey caption beneath it.
Six rows of circle script lettering
Close-up of a typewriter-style quote, 'Art Is The Weapon Imagination IS The Ammunition', in black ink with multicoloured watercolour splashes on the ribs.
Quote with watercolour splashes on the ribs
Sample sheet of fifteen tattoo-style lettering fonts in black and red, with names such as Billion Stars and Bleeding Cowboys, under a playing card spade emblem.
Free tattoo fonts sample sheet
Hand with red nails resting on ripped jeans, showing fine line chevron and bar tattoos on the fingers and black lettering tattoo on the thigh.
Finger line tattoos and lettering on thigh
Line drawing flash design of a ribboned banner reading I solemnly swear I am up to no good, above a trail of black footprints.
Banner quote with footprint trail
Black and white photo of a fine-line lettering tattoo reading abis volat propriis on the lower back, above a dark waistband.
Latin script line tattoo on lower back
Small red lettering reading Fearless on the inner forearm of a woman whose hand rests on a steering wheel.
Fearless word tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of roses, winged figures and script lettering across a man's upper arm, shoulder, back and ribs.
Black and grey roses and script on back and arm