Lettering tattoo ideas

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Black ink line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word love in script, a feather at the lower right and a second script word on the right loop, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Infinity symbol with feather and script
Black and grey flash design of a triangle with POWER, COURAGE and WISDOM on banners, with a sword and shield beside it.
Triangle with Power, Courage and Wisdom banners
Fine line tattoo design of a woman in profile with flowing red and black hair, overlaid with grey script initials.
Woman in profile with flowing hair and script
Pencil-style drawing of a fine-line botanical tattoo design with a curling vine, a pocket watch, a key and the words Life is what you make of it, shown on a pale pink background.
Vine, pocket watch and key design
Black and white tattoo design of bold italic script lettering set within a circular wreath of roses, peonies and a dahlia, with no body placement shown.
Script lettering in a circular rose and peony wreath
Black and grey flash design of a stylised phoenix in flight beside flowing calligraphic lettering on a cracked cream background.
Phoenix with flowing calligraphic script
Colour flash design of a blue TARDIS police box with white banners reading Wibbly Wobbly, Police Box and Timey Wimey Stuff, drawn in a neo-traditional style.
TARDIS with Wibbly Wobbly banners
Black fine line book stacks, quotation marks, Peter Pan silhouettes and quote lettering shown as a flash sheet, with the designs applied to a forearm in the lower right photo.
Book and quote designs on forearms
Black script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Cross-shaped script lettering design
Black lotus flower design above the word Namaste and a short verse about honouring others, shown as a black-ink design on a white background.
Lotus with Namaste verse
Black and grey flash design of a cartoon pin-up riding a chopper motorcycle above blackletter Born Wild lettering.
Pin-up cartoon on a chopper with Born Wild lettering
Brush lettering design of the word Breathe in dark ink on cream paper, with a yellow marker pen lying beside it, in a lettering style.
Breathe hand lettering design
Black silhouette flash design of two swallows in flight above the words we only part to meet again, in a serif typeface on a white background.
Two swallows above a quote
Handwritten lettering design in black ink on paper reading Let your faith be bigger than your fear, with a small outlined heart at the end.
Let your faith be bigger than your fear
Flash sheet of black brush-style kanji characters, each with a small red English translation printed beneath it.
Kanji character flash sheet with translations
Black line drawing of a heart enclosing the words Adventure is where your heart is, with a cactus, mountains, palm tree, sailboat, pine trees and a sun, as a tattoo design.
Heart with adventure lettering and landscape
Black ink drawing of a crescent moon filled with mandala patterns, with the words To the moon and back and small stars along the inner edge.
Crescent moon mandala with lettering
Black fine line handwritten script reading inhale exhale, with a long horizontal line running beneath it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Inhale exhale script with underline
Fine line script lettering reading Stay Strong with a small heart and loose flourishes, drawn in black on a white background.
Stay Strong script with heart
Black line drawing of a tattoo design: a cross formed from script words including faith, grace, peace, hope, love and Christ, with small arrows, on a white background.
Script cross with faith, grace and hope
Black hand-drawn script lettering of the lyric Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, with The Beatles beneath, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Whisper words of wisdom lettering
Black brush lettering design on a white background reading Curiosity did not kill this cat, set in three slanted lines with underlines, shown as a lettering tattoo design.
Curiosity did not kill this cat lettering
Black script lettering reading if you can't live longer, live deeper, with a small aeroplane silhouette below, shown as a tattoo design on a sepia background with no body part visible.
Script quote with small aeroplane design
Black handwritten script reading peace like a river on a plain white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Peace like a river handwritten script
Black ink flash design reading HAPPY HALLOWEEN with a bat above, ornate swirls, a spiderweb and two spiders below.
Happy Halloween lettering with bat and spiderweb
Flash design drawing of ornate black script reading And Though She Be But Little She Is Fierce, framed by dark red roses with drips, with no body placement shown.
Script quote with red roses flash design
Black ink script lettering reading it is well, drawn as a flowing handwritten design on a plain white background, with no body part visible.
Script lettering reading it is well
Nine small white lettering designs in gold and dark brown script, mostly reading just drunk, with one reading drunk in love, arranged on a white surface.
Just drunk lettering designs in gold script
Black and grey flash design of a dotwork-shaded rose with three arrows and the words "Love yourself so no one has to" curved around it.
Rose and arrows with "Love yourself" lettering
Pencil sketch of cursive script lettering arranged in a circle reading what goes around comes around, drawn on paper with no body placement visible.
Circular script lettering sketch
Pen drawing of an infinity symbol with the words live life with no regrets written in thin fine line script, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Infinity symbol with 'live life with no regrets' script
Black and white flash design of a stag head silhouette with hand-lettered text reading We will forever be wild and free over a row of pine trees.
Stag silhouette with lettering and pine trees
Black line drawing of a geometric circular design with decorative lettering above and below, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Circular symbol design with quotation
Hand-drawn script lettering reading Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together over a pink watercolour lip shape, shown as a design drawing on paper.
Lipstick quote in script lettering
Black ink line drawing of a dandelion with seeds blowing away and the Portuguese script 'a vida é bela', a fine line botanical lettering design.
Dandelion seeds and 'a vida é bela' script
Black brush-painted cross above the word LOVE in block lettering on a white background, shown as a flash design.
Brush cross with LOVE lettering
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design on lined paper, showing the word Hope in flowing script combined with an anchor, with no body placement shown.
Hope script entwined with an anchor
Black fine line script reading La Vita e Bella on a plain white background, a lettering design drawn without any body placement shown.
La Vita e Bella in fine line script
Black script lettering reading To The Moon with a long underline swash on a plain grey background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
To The Moon script lettering design
Hand-drawn flash design of two closed eyes with radiating dotted lines, above and below the words 'AND YOU SEE YOUR GYPSY' in dark brown lettering on a pink textured background.
Hand-lettered eyes design on pink
Black ink handwritten script on white paper reading "don't let idiots ruin your day" in three lines, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo.
Handwritten lettering: don't let idiots ruin your day
Black ink script lettering flash sheet with flourished phrases, scroll borders and a small ornament, shown on white with no body placement.
Script lettering flash sheet
Hand-drawn design of the word Survivor in dark purple marker on cream paper, with a long swooping flourish rising through the first letter.
Survivor lettering with a long flourish
Two black and white pen drawings of flourished script lettering, one reading Fearless and one reading Écriture Manuscrite, with a marker pen beside the second design.
Fearless and Écriture Manuscrite script lettering
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Scintillare in tall dark ink, with small four-point stars and the word shimmer written beneath on cream paper.
Scintillare lettering with stars
Black and white lettering flash sheet showing ten Paris metro station names in varied decorative script and block styles, with no body placement shown.
Paris metro station lettering sheet
Black script lettering design on a white background, with Arabic calligraphy above the English words "If it's meant to be, It will be."
Arabic and English quote lettering design
Black and white flash sheet of small line tattoo designs, including an om symbol, a hamsa hand with an evil eye, script words and a crescent moon, in fine line and lettering styles.
Black and white flash sheet of small designs