Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Colour tattoo of a worn, floppy-eared toy rabbit above black script lettering on the side of an upper arm.
Worn toy rabbit with script quote on upper arm
Black and grey chest and neck tattoo with script lettering and foliage, partly visible above an open grey shirt collar.
Chest and neck tattoos under a grey shirt
Fine line flash design of yarn balls, crossed knitting needles, a small heart and the word love in swirling script, drawn in dark red on a pale pink background.
Yarn, needles and script swirls
Black and grey drawing of a treble clef wrapped in two scroll banners that read I am married to the music, for better or worse, with a pointed blade shape at the top.
Treble clef with quote banners
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading wanderlust on the inner wrist, with gold bangles and a mountain landscape behind.
Wanderlust lettering on the inner wrist
Black ink script lettering reading Perfectly Imperfect on a ribbon banner, tattooed on the upper back near the shoulder.
Perfectly Imperfect lettering on a shoulder
Traditional style flash drawing of a pink-frosted cupcake with a bow, a slogan banner, two orange flowers and a rising sun, in full colour.
Cupcake with banner flash design
Small fine line black tattoo of a document icon with an X and the words TATTOO.JPG, placed on the upper arm.
TATTOO.JPG file icon on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a chibi figure in a grey cloak holding a sword, with the words KNOWS and NUTHIN above and below, on a lower leg.
Chibi figure in a grey cloak with Knows Nuthin lettering
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an anthropomorphic cat in a striped jumper and shorts on the forearm, with Cyrillic lettering below.
Cat in striped jumper with Cyrillic lettering
Black and grey photo of two clasped hands showing small black script lettering on both wrists, partly upside down from this angle, with a ring on one finger.
Matching script wrist tattoos on clasped hands
Black ink infinity symbol tattoo on the chest, with a script letter R on the left loop and Roman numerals XX-III-MMXI on the right loop.
Infinity symbol with letter R and Roman numerals
Black ink pen sketch of stylised cursive script lettering on cream paper, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Hand-drawn script lettering sketch
Flash sheet of gold and silver foil temporary tattoo designs, including icosahedrons, arrows, a sunburst and lettering, with no body placement shown.
Metallic geometric flash sheet with lettering
Black script lettering reading Love is All or Nothing with a small heart, tattooed along the upper arm.
Script quote with heart on upper arm
Pen and wash drawing of an anatomical heart with red drips on a cupcake, with a banner reading Sweet Heart beneath, designed as a tattoo flash.
Anatomical heart on a cupcake with banner
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm showing a radio tower with a red heart, lightning bolts and a city silhouette inside a ring of lettering reading Do What You Love and Love What You Do, with the
Radio tower and heart with Do What You Love text
Black fine line script reading alis volat propriis, ending in a detailed feather, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Alis volat propriis script with feather
Black lettering tattoos reading 'Too weird to live' and 'Too rare to die', with small bat outlines, on the backs of two thighs above denim cut-off shorts.
Quote lettering across both thighs
Colour lettering tattoo reading 'the ones that love us never really leave us' with roses and peonies on a thigh.
Floral quote lettering on a thigh
Black and white hatched line drawing of the word Boop with a full stop, a lettering tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Boop lettering design
Black and grey realism style tattoo of vampire fangs with blood drops on the ankle, with a train tattoo above on the lower leg.
Vampire fangs on an ankle
Black and grey traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing mountains, pine trees, a cabin, stars, clasped hands and pinecones above the words ON THE ROAD TO WHOLENESS.
Mountain cabin scene with clasped hands
Scanned page of numbered black and white drawings of Russian prison tattoo symbols, including a hand with a boar's head and lettering across the fingers.
Reference sheet of Russian prison tattoo symbols
Colour cartoon tattoo of a pink dog with brown ears and the words The things I do for love, in black lettering, on a lower leg.
Cartoon dog with lettering on a lower leg
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a dog head in profile above three roses, with the script words misunderstood breed arched overhead, in a traditional style.
Dog portrait with roses and script lettering
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Promise tattooed along a finger, a lettering design on the hand.
Promise lettering tattoo on a finger
Vertical Hebrew lettering tattoo in dark ink on the back of a person's neck, with the head turned away from the camera.
Vertical Hebrew script on the back of the neck
Black and grey traditional tattoo of two crossed revolvers above a ribbon banner reading Don't Tread On Me, on the lower back.
Crossed revolvers with Don't Tread On Me banner
Flash design of a woman's profile silhouette in black, with a red wide-brimmed hat, red lips and the words I KNOW MY VALUE in white lettering.
I Know My Value lettering in a profile silhouette
Black and grey mountain range tattoo on the top of a foot, with the words The road goes ever on and on written in handwritten script beneath the peaks.
Mountain range and quote on a foot
Three bare feet with black yin yang tattoos and script lettering around them, placed on the top of each foot.
Matching yin yang tattoos on three feet
Traditional style flash design of a pin-up woman in a space helmet beside a green alien holding a ray gun, with a banner reading Earth Attacks, shown without any body placement.
Pin-up and alien flash with Earth Attacks banner
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading alia volat propriis across the upper chest, below a black lace bra strap and above a grey vest top.
Fine line Latin script on upper chest
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a dreamcatcher with two feathers beside the word Dreamer in blackletter-style script on the inner wrist.
Dreamer lettering with dreamcatcher on wrist
Black and grey flash design of a hooded skeleton pushing a cart of skulls, with a hammer and sickle on the cart side and Cyrillic lettering above and below.
Hooded skeleton pushing a cart of skulls
Black and white line drawing of a boxy vintage car with an open door and Russian lettering reading не уверен and не обгоняй, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Car with Russian lettering flash
Black and white drawing of the words The Strokes inside a black circle, surrounded by intricate floral and paisley doodles, shown as a tattoo design.
The Strokes logo with floral doodle design
Black fine line script reading live your dream on a white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Live your dream script lettering
Collage showing a multicoloured geometric heart tattoo on an ankle, a vase of irises and daisies, and a heart tattoo with a tribal band pattern on a thigh.
Geometric and tribal heart tattoos on leg and thigh
Fine line black script tattoo reading until the very end, sitting across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Until the very end script on the collarbone
Two matching black infinity symbol tattoos made of small lettering, one on each inner wrist.
Matching infinity wrist tattoos
Black script lettering on a white background reading "Put God first and you'll never be last." in flowing, brushed strokes.
Script lettering quote: Put God first
Black silhouette flash design of flying figures, stars and dots within an infinity symbol, with the words Never Grow Up.
Never Grow Up infinity design with flying silhouettes
Black fine line script tattoo of the words God is within her, she will not fall, Psalm 46:5, across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Psalm 46:5 script across upper back
Red pencil drawing of a heart-shaped house with scalloped roof tiles, a chimney with smoke, a rose with leaves and the words HEART & HOME on a banner, shown as tattoo flash with no body placement.
Heart-shaped house with rose and banner
Black and grey script lettering reading Money Over Everything across a forearm, with a white cat and a chair in the background.
Money over everything script on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing red roses, a grey envelope with a red wax seal, forget-me-not flowers and a banner with lettering.
Roses and envelope with banner on upper arm