Lettering tattoo ideas

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Three black and grey photos of fine line sun rays with script lettering reading You are my sunshine and My only sunshine, placed on the upper back and shoulder blade.
Sun and script lettering tattoos on the back
Black and grey lettering tattooed across the fingers of both hands, with silver moth rings on the middle fingers.
Finger lettering with silver moth rings
Black and grey lettering tattoo of poem lines in a typewriter-style font running across the inner forearm.
Poem lines tattooed across the forearm
Black fine line tattoo on the side of the ribs showing a cross joined to a heartbeat line that ends in an outlined heart, with the words FAITH. HOPE. LOVE beneath.
Heartbeat cross and heart with faith, hope, love
Two side-by-side photographs of thin black script lettering spelling Jesus on the inside of a wrist, rotated in each panel.
Jesus lettering on a wrist
Two inner wrists side by side with black lettering: Beauty in flowing script on the left and BEAST in angular blackletter-style capitals on the right.
Beauty and Beast wrist tattoos
Black fine line script reading He walks with me beside a small fish outline, tattooed on the side of a foot.
Fish symbol and script quote on foot
Two matching black script tattoos reading eternally, each with a small star and a II symbol, on the inner forearms of two people clasping wrists.
Matching eternally script tattoos on forearms
Black and grey flash design of a shaded feather with the script words One day I'll fly away running diagonally across it.
Feather with One day I'll fly away script
Black lettering tattoo reading Too Weird To Live Too Rare To Die with small bird silhouettes, placed on the side of the ribs.
Too weird to live quote on ribs
Black and white photo of a small fine line Greek word tattoo, χάρις, on the upper arm below a grey sleeve.
Small Greek word tattoo on upper arm
Close photo of the word WHATEVER in thin black capital letters, spaced out in a fine line lettering style along a forearm.
WHATEVER lettering on the forearm
Black fine line script lettering reading stinate, headstrong girl across the ribs, with grey fabric draped over the top of the frame.
Script quote along the ribs
Black ink hand-lettered design of the word Strength in flowing script on a white background, with a looping infinity-style flourish under the final letters, shown as a drawn design with no body
Strength hand lettering design
Close-up of a bold black Hebrew script tattoo on the ankle, shown in a clean lettering style against pale skin.
Hebrew script tattoo on the ankle
Black script lettering runs along the inside of both feet, with flip-flop straps crossing the toes, in a fine line lettering style.
Script quote tattooed along both feet
Fine line script tattoo reading "one day at a time" in black ink across the inner wrist, with the hand open and fingers visible.
One day at a time script on a wrist
Script reading The heart of an Indian beside a profile headdress tattoo on the lower back, mostly black and grey with small red accents.
Script lettering and feathered headdress on back
Two black ink tattoos of the lyric phrases "You are my sunshine" and "My only sunshine", each with a small sun motif, on a person's upper back and a second area of skin below.
Matching sunshine lettering on the back
Black and grey geometric tattoo on the thigh showing latitude and longitude numbers, a boxed 12.31 and 12, two chevrons and a dot.
Coordinates and chevrons on a thigh
Black script lettering reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, with dark footprints, tattooed across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Quote and footprints across upper back
Pencil sketch of a cross made from black cursive lettering on paper, with soft grey shading beneath the letters, shown as a lettering design without a body placement.
Cursive script words arranged in a cross
Fine line black sun outline with lettering on the left foot and a crescent moon outline with script on the right foot, both placed near the ankle.
Sun and moon outlines with script on two feet
Pencil and ink tattoo design sheet showing an elephant head with mandala ornaments, flowers and the words truth, beauty, freedom and love in script.
Elephant head with mandalas and script
Fine line black script tattoo reading I follow the rabbit across the outer upper thigh of a person in a white top and shorts.
Script quote along a thigh
Colour tattoo of a blue crescent moon with yellow stars and clouds beside script lettering reading She was like the MOON, on the side of a ribcage in a lettering style.
Crescent moon and quote on the ribs
Black script tattoo reading Carpe Diem with a small outlined butterfly beside it, placed on the inner forearm.
Carpe Diem script with butterfly on forearm
Healed tattoo on the upper back near the shoulder blade showing a shaded grey wand with blue swirling sparks and the script words Expecto Patronum.
Wand and Expecto Patronum script on upper back
Colour tattoo of a wooden signpost with Shire, Winterfell and Hogwarts boards above a stack of pink, purple and green books, with sparkles, on a forearm.
Fantasy signpost and stacked books on a forearm
Four black script lettering designs of the word Wanderlust on a white background, with a small definition line beneath, shown as a lettering flash sheet with no body placement.
Wanderlust lettering in script styles
Black script tattoo reading lights will guide you home across the upper back and shoulder of a person with their head turned away.
Script quote across a shoulder and upper back
Close-up of a small black lettering-style tattoo on the inner forearm of a person lying on a bed, with pink nails and a floral garment visible.
Black lettering-style tattoo on a forearm
Black ink drawing on paper of two semicolons with the hand-lettered words OUR STORIES and WILL NEVER END, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Semicolon with hand-lettered quote design
Black tattoo of two crossed axes inside a ring of runic lettering, Lettering style, on the inner forearm.
Crossed axes and runes in a circle on a forearm
Two forearms each show the same black fine line script reading We got this with a small heart at the end, placed on the inner forearm.
Matching 'We got this' script on two forearms
Fine line infinity symbol tattoo with the word Dad in script and a small red heart, on the top of a foot.
Infinity symbol with Dad on the foot
Fine line black tattoo of a small lion outline beside the script words Remember who you are on the top of a foot, with a beaded anklet.
Lion outline and script quote on foot
Black script lettering tattooed across the ribs in a curved, stacked quotation, in a lettering style on a side torso.
Script quotation along the ribs
Fine line black tattoo of the Deathly Hallows triangle symbol followed by the word Always in script on the inner wrist.
Deathly Hallows symbol and Always on a wrist
Colour tattoo of a grey cartoon donkey wearing a green and yellow striped hat, with red blood splatters and lettering beneath, on a forearm.
Cartoon donkey in striped hat on forearm
Black script lettering reading 'to love another person is to see the face of God' with a small cross, tattooed across the ribs.
Script quote with cross on ribs
Two matching fine line infinity symbol tattoos reading family, each with a small red heart, on the inner wrists.
Matching family infinity tattoos on wrists
Black script lettering reading Hope on the inner wrist of a light-skinned arm, beside a pearl and silver bracelet, with a second hand held alongside.
Hope script on a wrist
Two wrists held together, each with a small black bird above fine line script reading i love her, placed on the inner wrist.
Matching bird and script wrist tattoos
Black and grey tattoo of a bird in flight above the script ex umbris ad lucem, in a blue-toned photograph.
Bird in flight above Latin script
Black fine line script running along the upper arm and forearm, with a compass rose tattoo on the ribs, shown on a woman with her arms raised.
Compass rose and script tattoos on arm and side
Black blackwork infinity symbol tattoo on a forearm, with the words ALL OF THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE written through the loop in handwritten capitals.
Infinity symbol with lettering on forearm
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with the word Wanderlust in cursive script on the side of a torso, shown beside the ribs.
Wanderlust script and compass rose