Lettering tattoo ideas

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Fine line black script reading Believe, looped within an infinity symbol with a small cross hanging from it, on the inner wrist, next to an orange wristband.
Believe script and cross on a wrist
Watercolour-style tattoo on the inner forearm with teal and pink splashes and black script reading Sangre, sudor y gloria.
Watercolour splash with script on forearm
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading Believe with a small outlined star above it, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Believe script tattoo with a star
Black and grey realism tattoo of two roses with script lettering and a small cross on the side of the ribs.
Black and grey roses with script on ribs
Black and grey realistic flash design of praying hands wrapped in a rosary beneath a scroll banner reading INRI.
Praying hands with rosary and INRI scroll
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading We are all broken, that's how the light gets in, set in a typewriter-style font.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Two photographs of legs with black handwritten lettering tattooed on the calf and ankle, reading I'm fine and save me.
Handwritten words on calf and ankle
Black lettering reading Sisters, looped inside a heart outline and set on the ankle, with a small dot above the i.
Sisters script within a heart on an ankle
Black ink drawing on paper of a dotwork mandala beside handwritten script reading For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.
Mandala design with script quote
Fine line black script reading Smile on the side of a woman's ribcage, just below her raised upper arm.
Smile script on the side ribs
Black ink tattoo on a shoulder blade showing a feather dissolving into flying birds, with script reading Always on my mind Forever in my heart.
Feather and birds with script on shoulder
Black fine line script tattoo reading Good Vibes on the side of a torso, with a knitted jumper pulled across the left of the frame.
Good Vibes script on the side ribs
Black blackletter lettering tattooed one letter per finger on two hands, resting on a dark leather surface.
Blackletter letters across fingers
Close view of fine line black script tattoo reading Ad astra per aspera across skin, in a lettering style.
Ad astra per aspera script on skin
Close photograph of a solid black ornamental flourish tattoo with a curled top and tapering loops on the upper arm, above a dark sleeve.
Ornate black flourish on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo of the name Ashley with a butterfly and swirling flourishes across the top of a bare foot.
Script name and butterfly on a foot
Black script lettering reading "P.S. You will always be my Baby girl" tattooed on the outer thigh of a person in denim shorts and a lion print t-shirt.
Script quote on the outer thigh
Close view of a fine-line black cursive script tattoo with two short crossing bars on the inside of a wrist.
Cursive script and two bars on a wrist
Black and white photo pair of a wrist with fine line lettering, the word amor in one view and love in the other, on the inner wrist.
Fine line wrist lettering reading amor and love
Two side-by-side photos of black script lettering reading I'm Fine on the back of a knee and Save Me on a calf, with the foot raised in the second image.
Script words "I'm Fine" and "Save Me" on legs
Black handwritten script reading patience with a full stop, drawn as a lettering design on a white background with no body placement shown.
Patience script lettering design
Close view of a fine line black script tattoo reading "we found love" on the inner forearm of a person whose hand rests nearby.
"We found love" script on forearm
Black script lettering arranged in a heart outline with a small red heart at its centre, tattooed on a person's side above the ribs.
Script words forming a heart on the side
Black and grey lettering tattoo of an infinity symbol with the numbers 4, 3 and 11 in script, on the inner forearm of a person sitting in a car.
Infinity symbol with numbers on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a bird with a raised wing beside the words books and cleverness in serif lettering, shown on skin.
Bird and books and cleverness lettering
Black and grey realistic compass tattoo on a chest, appearing to break through cracked skin that reveals fragments of lettering.
Compass breaking through skin on a chest
Black script lettering reading Not all those who wander are lost across the side of a foot, with dark painted toenails.
Quote tattoo along the side of a foot
Four-step photo of a temporary tattoo, a blue watercolour USA outline with lettering reading land that I love, being applied to an upper arm in lettering style.
Temporary USA map tattoo applied to upper arm
Black script tattoo reading Wanderlust on one foot beside a black compass rose tattoo on the other foot, both in a fine line style.
Wanderlust script and compass on feet
Black and grey realism tattoo of a seated beagle with script lettering beneath it, on the upper arm.
Realistic beagle portrait on upper arm
Black serif text tattoo reading "The best parts of me are hidden." across the outer upper thigh, with a hand holding red shorts.
Quote tattoo on upper thigh
Black script lettering on the side of the ribs reads 'She who leaves a trail of glitter is never forgotten'.
Glitter quote lettering on ribs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a small lion cub beside the script words Remember who you are, placed on the top of a foot near the ankle.
Lion cub and script quote on foot
Small black Roman numeral tattoo sitting behind an ear in a side-on photo, set in a simple lettering style.
Roman numerals behind the ear
Black script lettering reading It's get better runs across an inner forearm, with a blue sleeve visible at the top edge.
Script lettering on a forearm
Hand-drawn French script reading aimez-moi pour qui je suis in dark brown ink with a long flowing line on cream paper, shown as a lettering design.
French script lettering on paper
Black ink flowing script capital letters A to Z arranged in rows on a cream background, a lettering flash design with no body placement shown.
Uppercase flowing script alphabet flash
Collage of fine line script tattoos on an upper arm, forearm, wrist and neck, reading words such as love, smile, soul and live fearless.
Script words on arms, wrist and neck
Black semicolon tattoo on an arm with the words 'My story isn't over yet' in black serif lettering, the word 'isn't' picked out in red.
Semicolon with 'My story isn't over yet' on an arm
Two matching fine line script tattoos of a cursive word sit on the inner wrists of two people whose hands are clasped together.
Matching script word tattoos on wrists
Fine line black lettering reading type one above a row of small chevron symbols on the inner wrist.
Type one lettering with chevrons on wrist
Black and grey fine line drawing of a daisy on a thin stem with a small leaf and looping script, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Daisy with script along a stem
Black fine line script reading soulsisters with an arrow across the ribs, on a person's side and back.
Soulsisters script with arrow on ribs
Close-up of a hand holding a cigarette over pink satin, with the words LOVE YOU in small black lettering tattooed across the fingers.
Love you lettering on the hand
Black ink drawing of the word enough in flowing script, with two sweeping curved strokes forming a loose heart-like shape, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Enough script with swooping strokes
Small fine line black heart outline with a script letter inside, tattooed on the side of a finger on a hand.
Heart and script letter on a finger
Black ink script tattoo reading 'Sometimes before it gets Better, the Darkness gets Bigger' in lettering style on a section of skin.
Script quote tattoo on skin
Thin black handwritten lettering reading kill the king across the inner wrist of a palm-up forearm, in a fine line lettering style.
Kill the king script on inner wrist