Lettering tattoo ideas

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Collage of four fine line infinity symbol tattoos with script wording, shown on a wrist, a finger and the upper back.
Infinity symbol tattoos in a four-photo collage
Black fine line script tattoo reading Lucy and Arlo with a flowing ampersand, running diagonally across the inner forearm.
Fine line script name tattoo on a forearm
Black handwritten script design reading 'love her but leave her wild' with 'atticus' beneath, lettering style, shown on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Handwritten 'love her but leave her wild' quote
Close view of a man's hand with a small black capital lettering tattoo on the side of the ring finger, in a lettering style, with a wristwatch and dark suit sleeve visible.
Small capital lettering on a finger
Fine line black tattoo of a heart with the word WILD inside it, placed on the upper chest near the shoulder.
Small wild heart tattoo near the collarbone
Close-up of a small black lettering tattoo running along the side of a person's hip and upper thigh, in a fine, neat style.
Small black lettering on the hip
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading 'It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live' on a thigh.
Script quote on a thigh
Black lettering tattoo reading 'for a minute there, I lost myself' in a typewriter-style font on an upper arm, shown in a close-up beside a photo of a person in a knitted jumper.
Typewriter-style quote tattoo on an upper arm
Black script lettering tattoo on skin, reading Born to bleed, Fighting to succeed, Built to endure and What this world, running down a limb.
Black script quote across a limb
Black script lettering reading I am enough the way I am runs across the upper back near the shoulder, with a thin gold chain visible at the neck.
Script quote across upper back
Black ink line drawing of an outlined heart whose lower point flows into an infinity loop, with the word love in fine cursive script, shown as a fine line tattoo design on paper.
Heart with infinity loop and script love
Black fine line tattoo of the word ohana in script, with a sun, sea horizon and palm tree above, on a person's ankle.
Ohana script with palm and sunset on an ankle
Black fine line lettering spelling LOVE on a forearm, with the O replaced by a smiley face with X eyes and a small star cluster beside it.
LOVE lettering with a smiley face as the O
Black and grey realistic rose tattoo with script lettering on the abdomen, beside a hand holding a fan of banknotes.
Rose and script on abdomen with banknotes
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Always on my mind with two small hearts on a forearm, and a matching Forever in my heart tattoo on a shoulder.
Matching script quote tattoos on forearm and shoulder
Black and red lettering tattoo with swirling vines, a small purple butterfly and a red heart shaded on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script letters, vines and heart on a wrist
Fine line flash design of the words Do small things with great love, with a stylised flower and leaves at each side.
Quote with flowers and leaves design
Flash sheet of tattoo designs with Hopeless Romantic script, Fuck Love and Nah lettering, hearts, an arrow and a keyhole heart, with dotwork shading.
Hopeless romantic lettering flash sheet
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Fa;th with the semicolon replacing the i, tattooed on a wrist.
Fa;th lettering on the wrist
Fine line black tattoo on a person's upper back reading PURSUIT OF, followed by a chemical structure drawing of a molecule.
Pursuit of text with molecule on upper back
Two black fine line arrow tattoos on forearms, one reading double and the other reading trouble, shown as a matching pair.
Matching arrow tattoos on forearms
Two side-by-side photos of small black lettering tattoos on the wrist: a flower wreath reading Be Kind to yourself, and a plaster design reading I will feel better.
Wrist tattoos reading Be Kind and I will feel better
Fine line black script tattoo reading Forgiven with a small cross above the final letters, on a limb.
Forgiven script tattoo with small cross
Black line tattoo of a hanging sign reading Gone to Market, sitting on the top of a foot in a hand-drawn lettering style.
Gone to Market sign on top of foot
Two matching black script tattoos on wrists, one reading Take Me and the other I'm Yours, as two people hold hands.
Matching script wrist tattoos reading Take Me and I'm Yours
Two forearms with white and metallic temporary tattoos reading Bride and Team Bride, with dotted outlines and hearts.
Bride and Team Bride temporary wrist designs
Black ink drawing of the words Let me be brave in script lettering, with a bird in flight dissolving into stippled dots at the end of the phrase.
Let me be brave lettering with a bird
Black flowing script lettering reading 'to live to learn to love' in calligraphic style on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Script quote reading to live to learn to love
Close photograph of a black Hebrew lettering tattoo on the inner wrist, in a blocky lettering style.
Hebrew lettering on the inner wrist
Black and grey tattoo of a raised finger in front of lips beside ornate blackletter lettering with flourishes, on a limb.
Lips and raised finger with blackletter lettering
Black tattoo of Jack and Sally silhouettes holding hands on a swirling hill, with the script quote 'We can live like Jack and Sally if we want' beside it, on bare skin.
Jack and Sally silhouettes on a spiral hill with quote
Black script lettering reading Carpe Diem, decorated with curling swirls and small leaves, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Carpe Diem script with swirls
Black ink lettering design reading Not all who wander are lost in flourished script, beside a black and grey compass rose, drawn on pale paper.
Not all who wander are lost with compass rose
Traditional style colour tattoo of a blue inhaler wrapped in a red banner reading IT AINT EASY BEIN' WHEEZY, with a pink heart and swirls, on the upper leg.
Inhaler and banner tattoo
Black and grey realism style tattoo of a footprint with the script word Bentley in white lettering, on the sole of a foot.
Name in a footprint on a foot
Black script lettering reading Expecto Patronum with flourished capitals, tattooed across the inner wrist of a raised hand.
Expecto Patronum script on the wrist
Flash sheet of hand-lettered phrases in black ink on white paper, with two pale blue panels patterned with small stars, shown as lettering designs rather than on skin.
Hand-lettered phrase sheet with star panels
Two bare feet showing black script lettering reading Heels on the left heel and Down on the right heel, in a Lettering style.
Heels and Down script tattoos on the heels
Black blackletter-style 1988 numerals tattooed on an ankle, with a black blackwork mandala design on the back of the hand resting nearby.
1988 numerals on ankle
Flash sheet of six black lettering designs reading the rest is still unwritten, each in a different script or ornamental lettering style, intended as tattoo lettering.
The rest is still unwritten lettering options
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo spelling the word faith across the upper arm near the elbow.
Faith script tattoo on the upper arm
Black ink script lettering spelling the word Fearless with looping flourishes, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain grey background.
Fearless script lettering design
Black lettering tattoos, including KEEP GRL PWR, on a forearm beside a red floral tattoo on an upper arm, with a mandala owl printed on a white T-shirt.
Lettering tattoos with an owl print tee
Black and grey script lettering reading Let your faith be bigger than your fears, with a black cross on the inner wrist.
Cross and quote on a wrist
Black script lettering on a white background reading I'm not making any resolutions this year, nobody likes a sober skinny bitch anyway, shown as a design with no body placement.
Script quote about New Year resolutions
Black handwritten lettering spelling the word mudblood across a wrist, shown against a dark background.
Handwritten word across a wrist
Black ink infinity symbol tattoo on the inside of a wrist, with three birds in flight, the word love in script and the text Rom 8:31.
Infinity symbol with birds and love on wrist
Two forearms side by side, each with a fine line black script tattoo of the word sorella on the inner forearm.
Matching sorella script on two forearms