Lettering tattoo ideas

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Traditional coloured tattoo on the thigh showing a golden helmet with a red crest and a black dome in a heart shape, with a blue banner.
Helmet and dome heart on thigh
Black and blue line drawing of a cat covered in traditional-style flash designs, including a rose, a dagger, a razor, a skull and crossbones and a milk bottle.
Tattooed cat flash drawing
Colour traditional tattoo of a cartoon brown figure in a blue beanie and eye mask, with banners reading TURD and BURGLR, a money bag and green and pink flies.
Cartoon burglar with banners and money bag
Traditional-style colour tattoo of a cartoon character with glasses and a dark bob haircut, framed by teal leaves and a banner reading UGHHH, on a leg.
Cartoon character and UGHHH banner
Traditional colour tattoo of a pizza slice with pepperoni and dripping cheese, with a banner reading That's Amore, shown on skin.
Pizza slice with That's Amore banner
Black ink line drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds and sunburst rays, in a traditional style.
Hot air balloon and journey banners flash
Traditional colour tattoo of red hockey gloves with a maple leaf on the cuff and a banner reading Droppin' Mitts, on a lower leg.
Red hockey gloves with banner on a leg
Traditional style colour tattoo of a clenched fist gripping a wrench, with the words Working Class, red stars and flowers, on a limb.
Working Class fist and wrench
Traditional colour tattoo of a postcard with a log cabin, mountains and red flowers, reading wish you were here, on a forearm.
Wish you were here postcard on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a red chainsaw with red blood splatter and the word GROOVY in black lettering on a forearm.
Chainsaw and blood splatter with Groovy lettering
Colour tattoo of a four-quadrant house crest with a gold outline and black linework, in red, yellow, green and blue, on the forearm, with script lettering above it.
Hogwarts house crest on an arm
Traditional style tattoo on a thigh of an orange skateboard breaking out of a black and grey television with the words GO OUTSIDE, with a coloured figure tattoo below.
Skateboard bursting from a TV on a thigh
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a tattooed mermaid holding an artist's palette, with a squirrel playing a guitar and a banner reading she's a rose, she's a pearl, set against stars
Mermaid with palette, squirrel and banner
Close view of a tattooed forearm and hand resting on a gold guitar, with a traditional style skull and rose design on the forearm and small lettering on the knuckles.
Tattooed forearm and hand on a guitar
Colour tattoo on a forearm of a yellow cartoon character with braided hair inside an oval frame, a lemon slice and green leaves, with script lettering curving around the edge.
Cartoon character and lemon with lettering
Colour tattoo of an orange mockingjay bird with an arrow inside a black circle with an orange ring, with a banner reading May the odds be ever in your favor, on a person's upper back.
Mockingjay badge on upper back
Traditional style black and grey tattoo flash of a crying crescent moon face, a woman in profile with a rose and swallow in her hair, and the words I HOPE YOU'RE MISERABLE.
Crescent moon, woman and rose design
Colour traditional tattoo of a wooden log with a pink and yellow banner reading FROM BENEATH YOU IT DEVOURS, shown on skin.
Wooden log with banner reading From Beneath You It Devours
Black and grey tattoo of two swallows above the Roman numerals XVIII IX MMX on the upper arm, with a script tattoo partly visible at the top right.
Two swallows and Roman numerals on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a red rose with green leaves and a gold beaded chain ending in a fleur-de-lis pendant, across the back of a hand.
Red rose and beaded chain on the hand
Traditional style colour tattoo of a hand making an OK sign with a skull and spider web, two red roses with green leaves, and the words Shit's a OK, on skin.
Traditional hand, rose and lettering tattoo
Traditional flash design of a fanned hand of playing cards, including the ace of spades, above a scroll banner reading Born to Lose and Live to Win.
Playing cards and Born to Lose banner
Black and grey traditional style rose tattoo with leaves, flowers and a shell on the neck and upper chest, with script lettering below.
Large rose with shell and flowers on neck and chest
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grey koala holding a pina colada beside a palm tree and banner reading PINA KOALAS, on the top of a foot.
Koala with a pina colada on the foot
Black and grey traditional style moth tattoo with shaded wings on the side of a torso, with a partly visible tattoo to the left and white bedding behind.
Black and grey moth on the ribs
Traditional style tattoo of a grim reaper holding a black umbrella with raindrops, with the words IT ALWAYS FUCKING RAINS above, on a person's calf.
Grim reaper with umbrella on a calf
Traditional colour tattoo of a globe wrapped in a red banner reading WANDERER, with a compass rose above, on a forearm.
Globe with Wanderer banner on a forearm
Bare legs raised against a pale wall, showing a red rose with dark flowers on one thigh and black script lettering with flowers on the other thigh, in a traditional style.
Rose and script tattoos on raised legs
Three die-cut flash-style sticker designs on a grey surface: a guitar with flowers and banner text, a red and white aeroplane, and a pen and harpoon above flowers.
Three flash sticker designs: guitar, plane and harpoon
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a hand rising from ripples with a banner reading DON'T LET ME DROWN, in black and grey linework.
Hand rising from water with banner
Two matching colour traditional tattoos on forearms, each showing a hand holding a lighter or a joint, with a cannabis leaf, a pink flower and a banner reading BEST or BUDS.
Matching traditional forearm tattoos, lighter and joint
Traditional style tattoo of a dagger wrapped in a banner reading IT HURTS UNTIL IT DOESN'T, with orange flowers and black leaves, on a forearm.
Dagger and banner on a forearm
Black and white flash sheet of tattoo designs including a steak, pizza slice, pie, rope, knife, eye and several hand-drawn lettering pieces.
Black and white flash sheet of food and lettering designs
Traditional style tattoo on a calf showing two crossed-finger hands and red roses within a gold-edged oval, with the words 'All the best lies they are told with fingers crossed' beneath.
Crossed fingers and roses on a calf
Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh showing a teal whale, red flowers and the words DON'T PANIC in black lettering.
Whale and flowers with Don't Panic lettering
Black line drawing flash design of two roses, a HONOR banner and a blade on cream paper, in a traditional style, with no body placement shown.
Two roses and HONOR banner line drawing
Traditional style colour tattoo of a striped lighthouse with rays of light and a banner reading BUT ALWAYS A GUIDING LIGHT, on a forearm.
Traditional lighthouse banner on a forearm
Neo-traditional flash of a blonde cartoon woman with a tattooed arm, two bluebirds, roses and a banner reading Once Upon a Dream.
Blonde princess with roses and banner
Red ink sketch of an hourglass, pocket watch and roses above a banner reading MAKE EVERY MOMENT COUNT, in a traditional tattoo flash style.
Hourglass and pocket watch flash design
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a pepperoni pizza slice with a "Pizza my heart" banner and script lettering on a forearm.
Pizza slice with a "Pizza my heart" banner
Traditional style colour tattoo on the thigh showing a sun over snowy peaks and a river, framed by a rope border and the words If it's the mountains bending rivers you will have them.
Mountain, river and sun scene on a thigh
Traditional-style tattoo of two skulls and a banner on the upper back of a person in a white lace dress, with tattooed hands holding beer bottles.
Skull and banner tattoo on a lace-backed dress
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a hooded grim reaper skull with the words DEAD SERIOUS beneath it, on an upper arm.
Grim reaper with DEAD SERIOUS lettering
Traditional style flash design of a purple Hylian shield with a gold triangle emblem, a blue hilted sword, two red roses and a banner reading It's dangerous to go alone, coloured on paper.
Hylian shield, sword and roses flash
Black and grey tattoo of an owl perched on a branch beside blossom, with a banner reading ALL ROADS LEAD HOME and a compass, in traditional-style linework.
Owl, compass and banner on a limb
Traditional-style flash design of dice, a green bottle and a can in flames above a banner reading Roll the Dice, with no body placement shown.
Roll the dice flash with flames and banner
Traditional style flash design of a grinning skull with flames, crossed pistols, spade symbols and a banner reading Diablo, drawn in black, cream and red.
Skull with flames, pistols and banner
Black and grey script lettering with swirling flourishes across a lower abdomen, above two heart-framed pin-up tattoos on the thighs.
Script lettering on abdomen with heart pin-up thighs