Lettering tattoo ideas

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Close up of script lettering reading Believe in Yourself in pink and black ink on a forearm, in a lettering style.
Believe in yourself script on forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading 'She flies with her own wings' across a woman's upper back, near the shoulder blade.
Script quote about wings on upper back
Black outline heart tattoo on skin with the word equality in cursive script and an equals sign inside the heart.
Equality heart outline tattoo
Black serif Roman numerals reading IX.IV.VIII.XI, tattooed in lettering style across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Roman numeral lettering on upper chest
Black fine line script reading You are my Sunshine with a small sun and rays, tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
You are my Sunshine script on the upper back
Black script lettering tattoo running vertically down the spine on a person's back, seen from behind on a sunny beach.
Vertical script quote down the spine
Black lettering reading no big deal in a typewriter style font on the sole of a foot, shown in two photographs.
No big deal quote on the sole of a foot
Black lettering tattoo reading La Bella Vita in cursive script across the upper chest.
La Bella Vita script on chest
Black fine line Deathly Hallows symbol with purple and turquoise watercolour accents, above the script words After all this time? and Always, on the forearm.
Deathly Hallows symbol with Always script on forearm
Fine line drawing of a hand mid finger snap with the words SNAP OUT OF IT across the fingers, shown as a flash design for a hand tattoo.
Snap out of it hand design
Two small fine line black tattoos near the wrists, one a single vertical stroke and the other two parallel strokes, shown on two forearms.
Matching small numeral tattoos on forearms
Small black XXX lettering tattoo on the back of a hand near the wrist, with silver rings on two fingers against a plain pale background.
XXX lettering on the back of a hand
Black ink handwritten lettering reading Friday Love, with a heart in place of the letter o, drawn on a plain white background as a tattoo design.
Handwritten Friday Love lettering design
Black lettering tattoo reading think POSITIVE on the inner forearm, with a cross in place of the T, photographed against a hazy green hillside.
Think positive lettering on the inner wrist
Traditional style tattoo on a thigh showing a shaded grey cross wrapped in thorns, two red roses, grey clouds, small birds and the script words 'If heaven wasn't so far away'.
Cross, roses and heaven quote on a thigh
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh reading We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken, in a plain sans-serif font.
Quote tattoo on a thigh
Two forearms with small black lettering tattoos, the word 'here' on the upper arm and 'now' on the lower arm, in a car interior.
'here' and 'now' on two forearms
Black and grey lettering reading KEEP GRL PWR with an arrow on a forearm, and a lotus tattoo on an upper arm, both shown beside a woman wearing a white t-shirt.
Lettering and lotus tattoos on arms
Two forearms held together show matching tattoos: MRS with a red-bowed Minnie Mouse ear motif in black lettering, and MR with a black Mickey Mouse ear motif, both on the forearms.
Mr and Mrs Mickey and Minnie matching forearms
Black script word Hope with a purple ribbon and an outlined butterfly, tattooed on the wrist.
Hope script and butterfly on a wrist
Black cursive script tattoo reading la dolce vita across the back of a hand, in a lettering style.
La dolce vita script on the back of a hand
Black script monogram of two interlocking letters with curling flourishes, tattooed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Interlocking script monogram on upper back
Black line drawing flash design of the words Wild Heart Gypsy Soul in script, framed by daisies, flowers and feathers in a botanical wreath.
Wild Heart Gypsy Soul floral wreath design
Small black script lettering on the inner ankle of a leg, with a plum high-heeled shoe on the foot.
Small script word on an ankle
Two stacked photos of black fine line script tattoos reading You are my Sunshine and My only Sunshine, with a looped flourish on skin.
Script lettering reading You are my Sunshine
Black and grey shaded wings and the Latin script Alis Volat Propriis tattooed across the upper back and nape, with stars and a sun motif below.
Wings and Latin script on upper back
Two shoulder tattoos side by side: a grey-shaded daisy beside the script words You are my sunshine, and a colour sunflower beside the script words My only sunshine, both in fine lettering.
Daisy and sunflower script tattoos on the shoulder
Black lettering tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates in a typewriter-style font, placed across the upper back beside the spine, in a lettering style.
Latitude and longitude coordinates on upper back
Black fine line script reading To live would be an awfully big adventure, with small stars above it, running down the centre of a woman's back.
Script quote running down the spine
Black fine line cursive script tattoo running diagonally along a forearm against a dark background, in black and grey.
Fine line script on a forearm
Black serif Roman numerals XIX tattooed on an ankle, above a green and white sneaker.
XIX Roman numerals on an ankle
Woman lying on sand with a black hat over her face, showing a small geometric tattoo on her shoulder and the words this too shall pass in fine script on her upper arm.
Geometric shoulder tattoo and script quote
Black and grey sunflower tattoo on a shoulder, with the script words you are my sunshine running out beside it towards the collarbone.
Sunflower and script on a shoulder
Close-up of small black hand-drawn lettering reading STAY SICK on the upper thigh, seen through a rip in light blue jeans beneath a leather jacket.
Stay Sick lettering on the upper thigh
Black sans serif lettering spelling WARRIOR across the inner wrist and forearm, with the I drawn with a dot beneath it.
WARRIOR lettering on a wrist
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading endless love across a finger, against a dark floral fabric background.
Endless love script on a finger
Fine line black script reading Spirit, lead me, with a small arrow above it, on the inner upper arm of a person with the arm raised.
Arrow and script quote on upper arm
Blue-black silhouettes of birds in flight rise across a shoulder blade above a line of cursive lettering that reads Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly.
Bird flock and quote on a shoulder
Black and grey flash design of a globe with a botanical sprig border and script lettering reading Be the change you hope to see in the world.
Globe with botanical lettering design
Two knees in black ripped jeans, with fine line lettering reading NO GODS on the left knee and NO MASTERS on the right, in thin greyish-purple ink.
No Gods and No Masters lettering on knees
Black and white photograph of two interlocked hands with small black script lettering tattooed on the fingers.
Small script words on interlocked fingers
Black fine line cursive lettering reading ad infinitum on the side ribs, with a hand holding a red fabric above it.
Ad infinitum script on the side ribs
Black Greek lettering spelling αδελφή in a simple script on pale skin just below lace trim, placed on the upper thigh.
Greek word lettering on the upper thigh
Torso in a black lace bralette and leather jacket, with a small red lettering tattoo on the forearm near the hand.
Small script lettering on forearm beside lace bralette
Fine line script tattoo reading I am free in pale ink on the wrist, with a pink object and grey tiles behind.
I am free script on a wrist
Two forearms side by side, each with a fine black script tattoo reading "i am because you are" in a Lettering style, placed on the forearm.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Back of a person's head with black script lettering reading Love Fearlessly tattooed on the neck behind the ear, in a lettering style.
Love fearlessly script on the neck
Back of a person's neck showing a small multicoloured lettering tattoo, with a white mesh jersey printed with pink lettering below.
Small coloured lettering on the back of a neck