Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black script lettering reading How we survive is what makes us who we are, tattooed across the ribs with some redness around it.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a skeleton framed by banners reading COME BACK TO LIFE, with a VERB banner at the top.
Skeleton with come back to life banners
Black winged emblem tattoo with a script banner across the stomach, and the words Young Lust in black lettering on the forearm.
Winged emblem on a stomach with arm lettering
Black line drawing of a sailing ship, tentacles, waves and an anchor with a banner reading I am the captain of my soul, shown as a traditional-style tattoo design.
Ship and anchor flash with captain banner
Red and black medical alert tattoo reading TYPE 1 DIABETIC on the inner forearm near the wrist, in a bold traditional-style outline.
Type 1 diabetic medical alert on a wrist
Black ink flowing script reading Love never fails, with small birds perched and flying among the letters, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Love never fails script lettering design
Black fine line mandala tattoo on the ribs beside a small crescent moon and star, with a colour rose tattoo on the upper arm above.
Black linework mandala and moon on ribs
Black and grey pencil flash drawing of a bomb with fins, a smoke cloud and a ribbon banner with lettering, in a traditional style.
Bomb with banner and smoke flash
Pen drawing flash sheet of tattoo designs in a neo-traditional style, showing a steampunk gas mask with a top hat above a Legacy banner, a Photo Factory banner, and a Union banner over a compass and
Steampunk mask and banner flash sheet
Traditional style tattoo of a red heart with a green crack through it, set in a black flame burst with the words The World, Will Never and Take My Heart, on a thigh.
Cracked red heart with flames and lettering
Collage of four photos of black script lettering tattoos on ankles and feet, including the word wanderlust and the phrase maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Script lettering tattoos on ankles and feet
Black script lettering tattoo on the back of a hand, which rests on a black object wrapped in plastic.
Script lettering tattoo on the hand
Close-up of a black script lettering tattoo on skin, with two words joined by a large infinity loop.
Script lettering in an infinity loop
Black lettering tattoo on a person's upper back reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with scrolled flourishes above and below and an attribution to e.e. cummings.
Quote lettering across upper back
Black cursive lettering reading Stay Strong with small blue watercolour swallows flying across it on a plain grey background.
Stay Strong script with blue swallows
Full arm sleeve in realism style on the upper arm and forearm, featuring a grey hockey mask, a Bates Motel sign, a gas mask and red accents.
Horror sleeve with hockey mask and motel sign
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman's face with a tear-streaked eye, with German lettering, on a man's upper arm and shoulder.
Realistic woman's face with tear on upper arm
Six black script lettering samples of the word 'Ohana on a white background, shown as tattoo flash in varying weights and flourishes.
'Ohana lettering in several script styles
Colour tattoo of two cartoon white cats with pink daisies, a teal backdrop and a Darling banner, placed on the calf.
Two cartoon cats and daisies on a calf
Traditional style flash drawing of a magenta coffin wrapped in three yellow banners that read LEAVE A PRETTY CORPSE, with bold black outlines.
Coffin with banner reading Leave a Pretty Corpse
Black and white photo of a vertical line of runic-style lettering tattooed along the side of a person's torso, in a fine line lettering style.
Vertical runic lettering along the side of the torso
White linework lettering reading Allons-y on black, with a sonic screwdriver drawn diagonally and scattered stars and swirls, in a lettering style.
Allons-y lettering with sonic screwdriver
Pencil sketch of a double helix built from bicycle chain links, with the word DNA written in rough capitals beneath it.
DNA double helix made from bicycle chain
Black and grey pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing two skulls wrapped in dollar bills, with banners reading EVIL PAYS FOR and EVIL WAY, shown without a body placement.
Skulls and dollar bills with banner design
Colour cartoon tattoo on a forearm showing Scooby-Doo and Shaggy in front of a haunted house under an orange sky, with ZOINKS lettering below.
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy with haunted house
Small black fine line script tattoo on the upper arm of a woman in a yellow backless dress, photographed from behind.
Fine line script on an upper arm
Colourful flash sheet of cartoon tattoo designs in bold outlines, including a gremlin, a game console, an eight ball, a skull and a devil head, with repeated pattern versions below.
Bright flash sheet of cartoon tattoo designs
Back of a person's neck with vertical rainbow stripe tattoo above black block lettering reading NOT CRYING ON SUNDAYS.
Rainbow stripes and lettering on the neck
Teal line drawing in a traditional nautical style showing a sailing ship, waves and an anchor wrapped in rope, with a banner reading I am the captain of my soul.
Sailing ship and anchor banner design
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a swallow, two roses and a key on banners with lettering, placed on the side of the ribs.
Swallow, banners and roses on ribs
Black and grey script lettering with a ribbon banner and scrollwork on a calf, with an ornate letter at the centre.
Script lettering with banner on a calf
Realistic black and grey tattoo of a hair clipper with the words LIKE MOTHER LIKE SON on the forearm.
Hair clipper on a forearm
Cartoon lion cub curled up in soft tan and green ink, with the words kumbuka wewe ninoni in black script above, tattooed on the side of the body.
Lion cub and script on the side
Black fine line daisy tattoo with cursive script trailing down from the petals along the skin, shown in a close photograph.
Daisy with script lettering
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skeletal drum major in a plumed shako hat and baton, with lettering above and below, on the side of the ribs.
Skeleton drum major on ribs
Colour tattoo of cartoon characters Shaggy and Scooby-Doo in front of a haunted house on a forearm, with the word ZOINKS lettered along the bottom.
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo with haunted house on forearm
Black and grey skeleton key tattoo with the word Home written in script inside the ornate bow, on a lower limb.
Skeleton key tattoo with Home script
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm showing a rolled bundle of banknotes, flames and bold script lettering in a lettering style.
Banknotes, flames and lettering on upper arm
Colourful cartoon collage tattoo on a forearm, with a Mario-style character, a Rubik's cube and speech bubble lettering.
Cartoon collage tattoo on a forearm
Black ink tattoos of book spines, quotation marks and handwritten script quotes across a man's crossed forearms, in fine line style.
Book spines and literary quotes on forearms
Black script lettering tattoo on the outer thigh, set in four lines of text reading a quote about forgiveness.
Quote lettering on a thigh
Colourful cartoon collage tattoo on a forearm, with a red cartoon character, a blue character, the words YO! RAPS, a green cube and dotwork splatter.
Cartoon collage tattoo on a forearm
Fine line London skyline tattoo with fireworks and stars on a limb, glowing blue and pink under ultraviolet light.
London skyline with fireworks in UV ink
Fine line black crown above the word love in script on an upper arm, shown beside a plain black and white design of the same crown and lettering.
Small crown and love script tattoo
Black ink lettering reading OHANA with a small outlined heart on the inner wrist, shown in a close photograph of a forearm.
Ohana lettering with heart on wrist
Black line drawing of a giraffe whose neck and body are formed from the flowing script word Stalld, in a fine line style, shown as a design on a white background.
Giraffe drawn with script lettering
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded dog face surrounded by meme-style words such as wow and such rebl, on the outer thigh.
Doge-style dog meme tattoo on a thigh
Black blackwork design of a hand silhouette with a skull inside it and wispy tendrils, with the words WE KNOW beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Skull within a hand silhouette with WE KNOW