Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black and red sketch-style tattoo on the inside of a forearm showing a boombox, a cassette tape, a perched bird, a cable and script lettering.
Boombox and cassette tape on a forearm
Colour tattoo on the forearm reading Let's go exploring in black script, with a blue bobble hat and a yellow and black striped scarf, plus a small black band near the wrist.
Let's go exploring lettering on a forearm
Black ink flash design of a syringe and a pair of headphones, with the cable forming the word addict in handwritten lettering.
Syringe and headphones joined by an addict cable
Fine line script lettering reading if only in cream ink on a taupe background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Fine line script reading if only
Flash sheet of eight fine line Wanderlust designs in cream ink on a dark background, including hamsa hands, mountains, sunbursts and script lettering.
Wanderlust line-art flash sheet of eight designs
Black and grey realism wings on the lower back, one with a gold halo and one with small horns, flanking script reading Angel for some and Demon for others.
Angel and demon wings with script on lower back
Black script lettering reading I'll never give up, I'm a fighter across the inner upper arm, with a few small red marks near the text.
Script quote on the upper arm
Colour cartoon character in a green jacket and blue jeans, with red stippled outlines of a diamond, a rabbit and a banner, tattooed on a calf in a dotwork style.
Cartoon character with banners on a calf
Black and white flash sheet of Joker-themed tattoo designs, including a jester skull, playing cards, HAHA lettering, a grinning mouth and the word JOKER.
Joker-themed tattoo flash sheet in black ink
Flash sheet of flowing script lettering designs in dark brown ink on white, including the words Thanks, Respeto, Skate, Ardon, La Raza, Madre and Vegas.
Script lettering flash sheet
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of an orange pill bottle with a grey lid and a banner reading STILL ILL, on the upper arm.
Pill bottle with STILL ILL banner
Black hand-lettered script reading stayclassy on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Stayclassy script lettering design
Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm of a hand holding a wand beneath a black-rayed sunburst, with the word Lumos in script beside it.
Hand holding a wand under a sunburst
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a quotation with the attribution Dr. M.L.K jr, set in lines down the inner forearm.
Quotation lettering on a forearm
Black dotwork drawing of a teacup and saucer with a small alien head in a crescent moon, a tea bag, and the words Not everybody's cup of tea across the top.
Teacup with alien in crescent moon
Close crop of a man in a plaid suit and polka dot tie, with a black and grey script lettering tattoo on the back of his hand near a wristwatch.
Script lettering on the back of a hand
Black and grey realism sleeve tattoo on a man's arm, showing a sailing ship, a compass rose and an anchor, with the words Love, friends and Family.
Ship, compass and anchor sleeve
Black ink script lettering on white paper reading I loved you at your darkest, with Romans 5:8 beside it, shown as a lettering tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Script lettering reading I loved you at your darkest
A tall vertical flash sheet of nine circular illustrated animal portraits, each with a one-word caption such as BEHOLD, PROTECT, LAUGH and FLY, in muted colour.
Animal portrait flash sheet with one-word captions
Black script lettering tattoo reading Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today, across a forearm in a black and grey style.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Black linework tattoo on the side ribs showing a cross, a heartbeat line that rises into an outlined heart, and small text reading faith, hope, love.
Cross, heartbeat and heart on ribs
Black and grey realism tattoo of the Joker holding a playing card, with bat shapes above and Why so serious lettering below, on a forearm.
Joker portrait with bats and lettering on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo on a thigh of a quote, Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt, framed by red roses and green leaves.
Rose wreath with quote on thigh
Realism tattoo of a man's face with red, blue and black ink splashes across the forearm, with partial block lettering reading CLUB below the chin.
Realistic portrait of a man's face on forearm