Lettering tattoo ideas

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Black ink script reading Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning, inside a stippled dotwork circle with two small stars, drawn as a lettering design.
Peter Pan quote in a dotted circle with stars
Thin black script reading Someday followed by three dots, shown as a fine line lettering tattoo design on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Someday script lettering design
Colour drawing of the words BE YOU, NOT THEM in ornate orange lettering, decorated with flowers, a mushroom, bluebirds, a skull and turtles, with red swirling linework.
Be you, not them lettering design
Black ink lettering design reading I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul, with a sunburst above and flourished script, on a textured off-white background.
Lettering quote: master of my fate
Pencil drawing of a face with smeared dark eye makeup and a red grinning mouth, above the script words Love is a Joke, with coloured pencils and pens around it.
Joker face sketch with Love is a Joke lettering
Flash sheet of 29 hand-drawn East Asian characters in black brush lettering, each labelled in English with words such as Courage, Heart and Honour.
Single-character word flash sheet
Tattoo design of a black infinity symbol with scrolls, a solid red heart inside the left loop and the word love in cursive script on the right loop, shown on a plain white background.
Infinity heart with love script
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a pocket watch, roses and script lettering, in a neo-traditional style.
Pocket watch and roses pencil design
Black and grey flash sheet of Harry Potter themed designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and several script phrases, with no body placement shown.
Harry Potter themed tattoo flash sheet
Black ink handwritten script reading be kind with a full stop, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background, with no body placement shown.
Be kind handwritten script design
Black linework alphabet sheet of ornate lettering in a traditional style, with numerals and symbols, shown as a tattoo lettering design.
Ornate tattoo lettering alphabet sheet
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background reading Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, with The Beatles written beneath, suitable as a lettering design.
Script quote from The Beatles lyric
Black line design of the word MUSIC where the letters are replaced by musical symbols, including a clef, beamed notes and a rest, on a white background.
MUSIC lettering made from musical symbols
Black ink flash sheet of ornate script letter A designs, several combined with heart shapes and flowing flourishes, on a white background.
Decorative script letter A designs with hearts
Black and grey flash design of a lighthouse inside a rope circle, with a ship's wheel at its base and three banners carrying lettering.
Lighthouse and ship's wheel with banners
Black typewriter-style lettering reading "but first, tea" on a white background, with a distressed stamp-like texture, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
But first, tea lettering design
Black and grey pencil flash sheet showing heart lettering designs, a globe with a ribbon banner, a lightning bolt, a shoe and heart, and a linework portrait with lightning bolt face makeup.
Lettering and heart flash sheet
Black hand-drawn lettering reading OOPS with an exclamation mark and two underlines, drawn on a plain white background as a lettering design.
Hand-drawn OOPS lettering design
Black and white sheet of temporary tattoo designs reading No Regerts in bold, serif and blackletter lettering, shown in several sizes.
No Regerts lettering flash sheet
Black and grey hand-drawn flash sheet of small tattoo designs, including a planet, paper plane, guitar, airplanes, a bridge, a sailboat and short phrases in lettering.
Hand-drawn tattoo design sheet with phrases and icons
Hand-drawn black script lettering reading Trust Your Struggle on cream paper, with a Sharpie marker beside it, shown as a lettering design sketch.
Trust Your Struggle lettering sketch
Two versions of a tattoo design drawing of a lantern lamppost with three banners reading COURAGE, DEAR and HEART, one in green and one in black and grey, in a fine line lettering style.
Lamppost with COURAGE, DEAR, HEART banners
Black script lettering reading belle âme with small dots either side, above a smaller line reading a beautiful soul, on a plain white background.
Belle âme script lettering design
Black ink hand lettering of the word Possibilities in a flowing script with a sweeping underline swash, drawn on a pale grey background, in a lettering style.
Possibilities script lettering with underline swash
Black hand-lettered quote 'Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.' curved in an arch on a white background.
Arched quote lettering design
Black script lettering reading She believed she could so she did on a white background, with small mandala doodles in the corners, drawn as a lettering design.
She believed she could so she did lettering
Black hand-drawn block lettering reading SELF LOVE CLUB on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
"Self Love Club" lettering design
Single-line handwritten script design reading Be lovely, drawn in black on a white background, shown as a flash style lettering design with no body placement visible.
Handwritten Be lovely script design
Black and grey flash drawing of a sloth holding two hatched banners reading NAP ALL DAY, SLEEP ALL NIGHT and PARTY NEVER, in a traditional style.
Sloth holding banners with slogan
Black ink drawing of the phrase It is well with my soul in hand-lettered script, flanked by two sprigs of leaves and berries on a white background.
It is well with my soul lettering with leafy vines
Black monoline handwritten script reading Be kind on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Be kind handwritten script design
Flash design of a black-outlined ribbon banner with green shading carrying the lettering IN THE WAVES OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR TRUE DIRECTION, shown on a speckled background.
Ribbon banner with a lettered quote
Pencil sketch of a traditional style tattoo design showing a headstone inscribed Wish You Were Here, a crescent moon, a rose and leaves.
Headstone with rose and crescent moon design
Pencil sketch of an open hand with the words Promise, love, PROVOKE, DIRECTION and Good Luck written around the fingers, shown as a tattoo design idea.
Hand sketch with word designs
Black teardrop design with white ornate script lettering reading The craziest thing we can do is nothing, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Teardrop lettering with swirled script
Black handwritten script lettering reading wander often and wonder always on a white background, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Wander often, wonder always script lettering
Black line drawing of a heart with a curled swirl, the word family in script lettering inside it, and a loop at the base, shown as a design with no skin visible.
Family script inside a swirl heart design
Black handwritten script reading "She's not afraid" with a small open heart beneath it, drawn as a lettering design on a white background.
"She's not afraid" script with a heart
Black flourished lettering design reading Not all who wander are lost, set in mixed capitals and swash letters on a plain white background.
Not all who wander are lost lettering
Black brush lettering design reading Fuck around and find out, with sweeping underlines, drawn on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Fuck around and find out lettering design
White ornamental lettering reading Serenity, with swirling flourishes above and below, on a plain black background, shown as a tattoo design.
Serenity lettering with flourishes
Red pencil sketch of a neo-trad tattoo design showing a sugar skull woman with pinned curls, a profile of a man with a quiff, and a Vigilante script banner.
Sugar skull woman and profile man flash
White script lettering reading Be Brave above a horizontal arrow, shown as a tattoo design on a black background.
Be Brave script lettering with arrow
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a safety pin with a bow and two lettered ribbons, drawn on paper with no body part visible.
Safety pin and bow with lettered ribbons
Black brush-style lettering design repeating the word HAHA in staggered, overlapping rows, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Haha brush lettering design
Black ink drawing of the word hope in flowing hand-lettered script, with two feathered arrows passing beneath it, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Hope script lettering with two arrows
Black line drawing of a plain cross with the handwritten script reference 2 Cor 5:17 beside it, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Cross with 2 Cor 5:17 script
Black fine line script reading hakuna matata, arched across the design with small flying birds, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Hakuna matata script with birds