Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Black script lettering tattooed on the upper thigh of each leg, with a phrase reading always on my mind on the left, above black lace stockings.
Script lettering on both thighs
Small black lettering tattoo reading stet on the side of a torso, with a red plaid shirt lifted beside it.
Small stet lettering on the side ribs
Black and grey script lettering reading two lines of verse across a person's upper back, over the shoulder blade area.
Two lines of script lettering across upper back
Colour tattoo of a pink heart with a scalloped yellow, orange, green and blue border and the words BE KIND, in a traditional style, on the upper arm.
Be Kind heart on upper arm
Handwritten script reading don't worry, joined by a long thin horizontal line, in white on a black textured background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Don't worry script lettering design
Black and grey rose tattoo on the back of a hand, with a diamond and script lettering on the thigh above it.
Rose on hand and diamond and script on thigh
Fine line black tattoo on an upper arm showing a desert road, cactus, sun, mountains, bull skull and the words Doing time in the universal mind.
Desert road and cactus with lettering on an arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a pepperoni pizza slice with a banner reading NOT, flanked by RIOTS and DIETS lettering, on a person's upper back.
Pizza slice with Riots Not Diets lettering
Black fine lettering reading 'I love you' and 'I KNOW', each paired with a Rebel Alliance style emblem, tattooed on two forearms in black ink.
Rebel emblem with 'I love you' and 'I know' lettering
Close photo of the words The best is yet to come in thin black script tattooed diagonally along the inner forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Go and try you'll never break me, tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script quote on the inner wrist
Black lettering reading Not all those who wander are lost, with two small bird silhouettes, tattooed on a woman's upper back near the neck.
Quote and two birds on upper back
Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing a heart frame with a black and grey mountain scene, red roses, a hand in a blue cuff and the words love and will tear us apart.
Heart frame with roses and lettering on upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a feathered arrow with a script word along the shaft, on the inner forearm.
Feathered arrow with script word on a forearm
Black fine line script tattoo reading Meraki, with a swirling flourish above and a leaf sprig below, on the thigh.
Meraki script with leaf sprig on thigh
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo in three vertical lines on the ribs, with the text set in a delicate lettering style.
Three lines of fine script on the ribs
Black ink script quote reading Through Dangers Untold and Hardships Unnumbered on the inner wrist, beside a white dogwood flower on stone.
Quote on the inner wrist beside a dogwood flower
Black and white ink flash design of a perfume atomiser, lipstick and hand-lettered text reading Let me get my girly shit, with small heart labels.
Perfume atomiser, lipstick and lettering flash
Close-up of fine line black script lettering that appears to read Because I say so, on the side of a hip above dark lace underwear.
Script lettering on the hip
Black script quote reading 'Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live' on one forearm, with a small outline heart on the other forearm.
Script quote and heart on forearms
Black handwritten script lettering reading Just a girl who decided to go for it, on a plain off-white background with a hatched strip across the top.
Script quote, Just a girl who decided to go for it
Close photo of a black script tattoo reading live.out.loud across the inner wrist, with green painted nails and a silver watch strap.
Live.out.loud script on the wrist
Two forearms side by side with fine black script tattoos on the inner arms, reading Um coração on the left and Um amor on the right, in a black and white photograph.
Um coração and um amor forearm script
Flash sheet of black ink infinity symbol designs, each with a single handwritten script word such as love, family, music or faith, on white paper.
Infinity symbol lettering flash sheet
Black lettering tattoo reading FRIENDS with a small coloured dot between each letter, on the inside of a wrist.
FRIENDS lettering on a wrist
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a scalloped heart reading BE BRAVE, framed by two flowers and dark leaves, on a forearm.
Be brave heart with flowers on a forearm
Fine line script design reading carpe diem, drawn with one continuous black line that extends to both sides, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Carpe diem script line design
Colour tattoo on the back of a witch hat, black script reading Defy Gravity, and a wand ending in a yellow star, with scattered black stars.
Defy Gravity script with witch hat and wand
Fine line black barcode tattoo with the word HUMAN beneath it, placed on the inside of a wrist.
Barcode with HUMAN on a wrist
Close-up photograph of thin black fine line Greek lettering reading φαμιλψ on skin, with the placement on the body not clear from the image.
Greek lettering tattoo on skin
Black and grey realism tattoos of four women's portraits above Stay Gold lettering in blackletter across both thighs.
Four portraits and Stay Gold lettering on thighs
Black and white photo of a muscular man's back with a large grim reaper tattoo with a scythe, arched lettering reading Sons of Anarchy and California, and arm tattoos.
Grim reaper and lettering across a back
Line drawing flash design of three lilac-shaded roses with grey leaves beside the lettering "We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness" and the numerals I-XVII-MMXV, shown on a white
Roses with quote lettering design
Black line drawing of a heartbeat trace with fine script lettering along its length, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Heartbeat line with script wording
Woman seen from behind with a thin fine line script tattoo running vertically down the centre of her back.
Script line tattoo down the spine
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a lower leg showing mountains, pine trees and a crescent moon inside a circular compass frame, with the words 'You are home' beneath.
Mountain and moon badge with 'You are home' lettering
Colour lettering tattoo reading Mischief Managed in a circle, with a purple smoke trail, green and yellow stars and a wand on an arm.
Mischief Managed lettering with purple smoke trail and wand
Handwritten script lettering reading I'll love you 'til the end in black ink on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Handwritten I'll love you 'til the end lettering
Fine line black infinity symbol on a forearm, with the script words hakuna matata written inside the loop.
Infinity symbol with script wording on a forearm
Black ink lettering design reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with three bats flying above the words on a white background.
Too weird to live, too rare to die lettering with bats
Black and white photo of the word choice in fine line script lettering on the forearm, near a woven bracelet.
Script word choice on the forearm
Two bare feet, each with a matching black cursive lettering tattoo arranged in a heart outline across the top of the foot.
Matching heart lettering tattoos on two feet
Dark script lettering reading through every dark night, there is a brighter day, tattooed across the upper chest in a black lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black script lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of a woman's back, photographed from behind in an open-back dress.
Script lettering down the spine
Hand-drawn black lettering design in a sketchbook reading 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now and this bird you cannot change, with decorative letterforms and shading.
Lettering design with a bird lyric
Dark blue-black silhouettes of birds in flight rise across the upper back toward the shoulder, with the script words Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly beneath them.
Flock of birds and script quote on upper back
Black and grey traditional swallow tattoo on the upper back, with a banner reading it's just a spark but its enough beside a starburst.
Swallow with spark quote on upper back
Fine line black tattoo of a teepee with the word HOME beneath it, a crescent moon, a ringed planet and stars on the calf.
Teepee, planets and HOME on a calf