Lettering tattoo ideas

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Colour tattoo on the side ribs of a West Virginia state outline containing an arched bridge, green hills and a river, with script lettering beside it.
West Virginia state outline with bridge on ribs
Black and grey traditional anchor tattoos with rope and script lettering on both thighs, worn above striped over-knee socks.
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Two hands pressed together showing black script lettering reading Inhale love and Exhale hate across the fingers and back of the hands.
Inhale love and exhale hate on the fingers
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Ohana with a small heart on the inner wrist.
Ohana script with heart on wrist
Black and grey crown tattoos with script wording, one reading Your King on the wrist and hand and one reading His Queen on the upper chest.
Matching crown tattoos reading Your King and His Queen
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Fear is the mind-killer across the inner wrist and forearm, shown in a close photograph.
Quote reading Fear is the mind-killer on a wrist
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading oh darling, let's be adventurous in black ink across the inner forearm, with a white lace cuff at the wrist.
Fine line script quote on a forearm
Flash sheet in a spiral notebook with black and red dotwork designs of a goblet, radio, crown, Deathly Hallows symbol, tombstone, eye, lighter and the words Avada Kedavra.
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows flash sheet
Teal script reading forgiven laid over a black line drawing of a cross, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Script word forgiven over a cross
Black ink handwritten script design reading Happiness on a white background, drawn as a tattoo lettering sketch with no body part visible.
Happiness handwritten script lettering
Two forearms pressed together show black script lettering reading Forgive my sins and Touch my soul, with a red and multicoloured woven bracelet on one wrist.
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Two photos of black script lettering tattoos on skin, one reading together forever, never apart and the other reading maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Two script quote tattoos on skin
Black and grey tattoo of an anchor with the words 'a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor' on a forearm, in a black and white photo.
Anchor and sailor quote on a forearm
Fine line black and grey tattoo of a matchbook with a row of matches and the script words I burn for you on a forearm.
Matchbook with 'I burn for you' on a forearm
Neo-traditional style colour tattoo of a red-haired mermaid with a green tail on a forearm, with the words NEVER LOSE YOUR VOICE in black lettering above and below.
Mermaid and lettering on a forearm
Black handwritten script on a white background reading go where you feel the most alive, a lettering design in a Lettering style.
Go where you feel the most alive lettering
Black ink tattoo on the thigh of an infinity symbol made of barbed wire and fish hooks, with the word Country in script inside the right loop.
Barbed wire infinity with fish hooks and Country
Black script lettering reading Smile across a finger, with the hand gripping a Canon camera.
Smile lettering on a finger holding a camera
Black script reading 'If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever', framed by two calla lilies with soft colour and flourishes, tattooed on the upper back.
Calla lilies and script quote on upper back
Three photos of fine line black ink tattoos: '1 of 3' with lines on a forearm, arrows with '2 of 3' on a forearm, and '3 of 3' with an arrow on the upper back.
Numbered 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3 arrow tattoos
Traditional rose and script lettering tattoos on the thighs of legs resting in a bath, with a hand holding a cup of tea.
Rose and lettering tattoos on bathed legs
Black and grey script lettering tattoo running along a forearm, photographed in black and white.
Script quote on a forearm
Black hand-lettered tattoo reading IF NOT NOW WHEN? in blocky capitals across the inner wrist and hand.
If not now when lettering on the wrist
Fine line heart tattoo with small script on the upper arm of a woman with her back to the camera, facing the sea at dusk.
Heart with script on upper arm
Fine line black script lettering reading Courage, dear heart with the attribution CS Lewis beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Courage, dear heart script lettering design
Watercolour dandelion tattoo with rainbow splashes and black script lettering along the side of the ribs.
Watercolour dandelion on the ribs
Fine black line tattoo of a heartbeat trace that forms a heart on the left, ending in the word faith in cursive script, on skin at the side of the body.
Heartbeat line and faith script
Black and grey tattoo of a dove carrying an olive branch above the script words Faith, Hope and Love, on a forearm, in a fine line style.
Dove with olive branch and script on a forearm
Black fine line script tattoo reading miles to go, sitting along the side of the torso below a dark garment hem.
Miles to go in script on the side
Black ink lettering design reading Long Live the Adventure, set in a circle on white paper beside a camera, passport and pens, in a lettering style.
Long Live the Adventure lettering design
Fine red script lettering reading Mischief Managed across the top of a foot in a black studded high heel, Lettering style, placed on the foot.
Script lettering on the top of a foot
Black script lettering tattooed along a thigh, reading a four-line quote in a fine line style, with denim shorts rolled at the top of the frame.
Script lyric quote along a thigh
Bold black brush-style Devanagari-style script lettering on a plain white background, shown as a standalone design with no skin visible.
Black Devanagari-style script lettering
Fine line black script reading always with a small pink heart at the end, on the outer side of a foot near the ankle.
Always script with heart on foot
Close-up of a woman's shoulder and collarbone with the words "with every heartbeat" in black fine line script tattooed along the collarbone.
Script quote tattoo on the collarbone
Black fine line lettering reading Hakuna Matata with small animal silhouettes above it, tattooed on the top of a woman's foot near the ankle.
Hakuna Matata and animal silhouettes on an ankle
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading dance on the side of a heel, in the Fine line and Lettering style.
Dance script lettering on the heel
Two-panel photo of black script lettering reading "I'm fine" on the lower leg and "save me" on the ankle and calf, in lettering style.
Script words "I'm fine" and "save me" on legs
Black and grey tattoo design of an infinity symbol with the words Stay and Strong in script, and a feather dissolving into flying birds.
Infinity symbol with feather and birds
Black outline heart tattoo made from the words unity, hope, faith and love, placed on an ankle in a lettering style.
Word heart tattoo on an ankle
Close-up of a black cursive tattoo spelling the word faith on the inner forearm of a woman in a white top.
Script word "faith" on a forearm
Black script lettering reading 'the very things that hold you down' on a thigh, beside a coloured cartoon elephant tattoo on a second thigh.
Script quote and cartoon elephant on thighs
Black script lettering reading 'To live is just to fall asleep, to die is to awaken' across the upper chest, in a lettering style.
Script quote across upper chest
Black and red script lettering reading Money over Men with swirling flourishes, tattooed along a forearm.
Money over Men script lettering on a forearm
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading This is not for you on the inner wrist, with the word you in red.
Script quote on the inner wrist
Close-up of a woman's inner forearm with a small black fine-line script tattoo of a few words, placed near the wrist.
Small script tattoo on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo on a forearm showing a heartbeat trace that runs into the script words l'amour fou.
Heartbeat line and script phrase on a forearm
Black fine line script reading breathe in, breathe out, move on on the inner wrist, set against a hessian background.
Script quote on the inner wrist