Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black fine line script tattoo reading I believe in miracles across the lower back, just above the waistband of light denim shorts.
I believe in miracles script on lower back
Pencil sketch of the word Faith in flowing script lettering with decorative swirls, drawn as a tattoo design on textured paper.
Faith script lettering with flourishes
A short line of black script lettering across the inner wrist of a hand with green painted nails.
Black script lettering across the wrist
Close photo of black block lettering reading MADE IN ENGLAND on pale skin, with a dark feathery design beside it, held by two hands.
Made in England lettering on a limb
Black script lettering tattooed across the neck, worn with a silver necklace of two crescent moon charms and a pink stone pendant.
Script quote tattoo on the neck
Black ink hand-lettered design reading Everything changes, with swirling flourishes on the capitals and tails, drawn on cream paper.
Everything changes lettering design
Black line drawing of flowing decorative lettering surrounded by clouds, a crescent moon and a small star, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Decorative lettering with moon and star doodles
Black and grey fine line eye inside a triangle with small text around it on the upper arm, and 'be strong girl' lettering on the ribs.
Eye in triangle and 'be strong girl' lettering
Black and grey fine line script lettering reading Feminist Killjoy on pale skin, shown in a close black and white photograph.
Feminist Killjoy script lettering
Black lettering tattoo reading LOVE on the inner wrist, with the O replaced by a heart containing a wheelchair symbol.
Love lettering with wheelchair symbol heart on wrist
Black and grey Roman numeral tattoo on a forearm beside a fine serif lettering tattoo on another forearm, outdoors in green grass.
Matching Roman numeral and lettering forearm tattoos
Black brush-script lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway on off-white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Brush lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway
Pencil flash design of an ornate compass rose with a fleur-de-lis point and True North lettering, shown in black and grey without any body placement.
Compass rose with True North lettering
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm reading Blood makes you related and Loyalty makes you family, with smoke-like shading above the text.
Lettering quote on a forearm
Black and grey fine line script reading let go, with an arrow running through the lettering, on the inner forearm.
Let go script with arrow on forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading One foot in the grave on the calf of a leg, shown next to a prosthetic leg with a trainer on the foot.
Quote lettering on a calf beside a prosthetic leg
Two stacked photographs of black script lettering: on the side of the ribs it reads I carry your heart with me, and on the chest it reads I carry it in my heart.
Script quotes on ribs and chest
Ink drawing of an ornate lettering design with curling leaf flourishes and dot shading, drawn on cream paper beside a fine liner pen.
Ornate lettering sketch with flourishes
Close view of a thin black fine line script tattoo reading joy on the lower leg, with a blurred background and bare feet below.
Fine line script word joy on a calf
Two forearms crossed together, each with matching black script reading I will always stand by your side and a small swallow on the forearm.
Matching script quote and swallow tattoos
Back view of a black and grey heartbeat line tattoo with an outlined heart across the upper back and shoulders, with lettering on both upper arms.
Heartbeat line and heart across upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading "One foot in the grave" on the back of a calf, beside a blue prosthetic leg.
Lettering reading one foot in the grave on a calf
Hand-drawn flash design of a syringe wrapped in grey banners with lyrics, with two purple flowers, in a traditional style.
Syringe with lyric banners and flowers
Two raised forearms showing a shaded black dotwork rose with leaves on the left forearm and the word Dreamer in fine script lettering on the right inner wrist.
Black rose and Dreamer script on forearms
Pencil flash design of a pirate ship under a compass rose with Tinker Bell and shadowy figures, above the words Second star to the right and straight on till morning.
Pirate ship and compass rose flash design
Black and grey photograph of the words you only live once in black script tattooed diagonally across the inner forearm.
You only live once script on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading Never look back on the inner forearm, set against reddened skin.
Never look back in script on the arm
Black and grey script lettering with flourishes tattooed across the tops of two feet, one phrase on each foot.
Script lettering across both feet
Black ink quote tattoo in a gothic-style serif on the inner upper arm, reading I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.
Poem quote along the inner upper arm
Close-up of the word agape tattooed across a finger, with a small red heart in place of the o, in fine lettering on a hand.
Agape lettering on a finger
Pencil sketch of the words Family First in flowing script lettering on pale paper, shown on a wooden table beside an eraser and a pen.
Family First script lettering sketch
Colour tattoo of a green awareness ribbon with the word Fighter written in black script across it, on the forearm.
Green awareness ribbon with Fighter script
Black fine-line feather tattoo with script lettering beneath it on the side of a ribcage.
Feather with script lettering on the ribs
Black and grey script lettering tattoo on the lower back of a person in a grey crop top and white shorts, photographed from behind in a mirror.
Script tattoo on lower back
Black ink hand-lettered design reading Make Memories That Last Forever, with ornate scrolls and dotwork shading, being drawn with a fine pen on white paper.
Make Memories That Last Forever lettering design
Forearm with a colour traditional rose and star, a grey deer framed by flowers, and the words Don't let me drown in black lettering, with a thigh tattoo visible below.
Rose, deer and lettering on a forearm
Fine line black arrow tattoo with the script words She will be free running vertically down the nape of a person's neck.
Arrow with script down the nape of the neck
Large traditional-style back tattoo of a hooded grim reaper holding a rifle, with arched Sons of Anarchy lettering above and California below, placed across the upper and middle back.
Grim reaper lettering across a back piece
Black hand-lettered script reading Stop and breathe on a white background, a flash design with no body placement shown.
Stop and breathe lettering design
Woman seen from behind with a black and grey lettering tattoo running vertically down her upper back, with a second small tattoo visible near her lower back.
Vertical lettering tattoo on upper back
Black fine line script lettering arranged in a heart shape on skin, forming a handwritten quote.
Heart-shaped script quote tattoo
Colour realism tattoo of an older man in a pinstriped suit and red tie on an upper arm, with the words COME ON DOWN beneath.
Portrait of an older man with lettering on upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo reading walk by faith across the top of a foot.
Walk by faith script on a foot
Two matching fine line tattoos in dark ink on skin, one reading love by the moon beside a crescent moon and one reading live by the sun beside a sun, shown on forearms.
Matching moon and sun script tattoos
Mixed-colour Cheshire Cat tattoo wearing a top hat, with a teacup beside it and blue lettering reading We're All Mad Here, shown on skin.
Cheshire Cat with We're All Mad Here lettering
Black ink flash sheet of Shakespeare quotes in script and typewriter lettering, with a small skull and a wreath design.
Shakespeare quote lettering flash sheet
Black fine line script reading 1 Corinthians 16 14 with a cross running through it, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Corinthians reference and cross on upper back
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading Leave a Coment Below on a shaved scalp above an ear.
Text tattoo reading Leave a Coment Below