Lettering tattoo ideas

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Black and grey blackwork tattoo of tribal patterns on the shoulders and upper arms, with fine script lettering across the chest and a forearm lettering piece, on a shirtless torso.
Chest script and tribal shoulder tattoos on a torso
Fine line blue police box outline with black Allons-y script tattooed on the upper arm.
Allons-y and police box outline on an arm
Black and grey realism sleeve with a pocket watch and roses on the left arm, and script lettering across the ribs of a woman in a black bikini.
Pocket watch sleeve and script lettering on torso
Watercolour-style tattoo of a Stitch silhouette in blue, green, purple, yellow and pink on an arm, with black script reading Ohana means family, Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
Stitch silhouette with Ohana quote on an arm
Black and grey photograph of a fine black script quote tattooed along the upper arm of a person whose face is not shown.
Black script quote along an upper arm
Black fine line cursive script tattoo running down the outer upper arm of a person whose back and shoulder are also visible.
Cursive script tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey butterfly tattoo on the upper arm beside a cursive script quote across the back, shown from behind.
Butterfly and script quote on arm and back
Black and white photo of a woman seen from behind, with typewriter-style lettering tattooed across her upper back and sleeve tattoos on both arms.
Typewriter text tattoo across upper back
Black lettering tattoo of an infinity symbol made from Roman numerals, sitting on the upper arm.
Infinity symbol of Roman numerals on arm
Close view of a fine line script tattoo reading expecto patronum in dark ink across the upper arm, with a blue sleeve visible at the top left.
Expecto patronum script on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading 'bold as love' on the upper arm, seen from behind in soft natural light.
Bold as love lettering on an upper arm
Black and grey wolf head tattoo with roses across the abdomen, with script lettering above and coloured tattoos on the thighs and upper arms.
Wolf and roses across the abdomen
Back view of a woman with a small black lettering tattoo on her upper arm, partly legible French text, with her hand on her hip.
Small text tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on the upper arm showing two figures with bird skulls for heads, with the words NEVER TRUST THE LIVING between them.
Two bird-skulled figures with Never Trust the Living
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a mountain landscape with a cabin and pine trees in a circle, with the words Home is where the mountains are, on an upper arm.
Mountain landscape with Home is where the mountains are
Shaded black and grey realism tattoo on an upper arm showing a crown, two roses and a purple ribbon, with the words Strength and Perseverance beneath.
Crown, roses and ribbon on upper arm
Black linework tattoo of a police box outline on the upper arm, with a block of capitalised lettering quoting nine hundred years of time and space.
Police box quote on upper arm
Colour burger tattoo and script lettering on a person's forearm and upper arm, with a second small tattoo on the lower right arm, worn beside a blue ringer t-shirt.
Burger and script tattoos on arms
Black and grey realism feather tattoo above the words Wingardium Leviosa in script lettering, on the inner upper arm.
Shaded feather and script quote on upper arm
Two arms pressed together in black and grey, one with fine line lettering reading GIRL ALMIGHTY on the forearm and one with SHE'S NOT AFRAID on the upper arm.
Girl Almighty and She's Not Afraid text tattoos
Black lettering tattoo reading "If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough" in a typewriter font across the upper arm, with a camera held over the face.
Typewriter quote on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a star under peeling skin, filled with words such as friendship, freedom and love, on a shoulder and upper arm.
Torn skin star with virtue words on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of two swallows above the Roman numerals XVIII IX MMX on the upper arm, with a script tattoo partly visible at the top right.
Two swallows and Roman numerals on upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo reading "fairest of them all" across the upper arm, shown in close up against blurred skin.
Script quote "fairest of them all" on skin
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a shaded feather joined to an infinity symbol with the script words stay and strong, on the inner upper arm.
Feather and infinity script reading stay strong
Black fine line tattoo of an open mouth with teeth and a dripping outline on the upper arm, with the words What's love got to do with it inside.
Dripping open mouth with lyric quote
Black script lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading: our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean.
Wave quote lettering on an upper arm
Black and white photo of a person seen from behind, with a large back tattoo of script and roses and tattoos on the upper arm.
Back piece with script and roses
Black and grey serif lettering spelling the word arm vertically down the outer upper arm, in a lettering style.
Vertical lettering reading arm on an upper arm
Black script lettering on an arm reading Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed, set over two lines.
Script quote across the upper arm
Woman in a white V-neck top and black lace bralette, with a thin outline heart tattoo on the upper chest and a blue letter A tattoo on the upper arm.
Outline heart and letter A tattoos
Black and white photo of a woman's upper arm with fine line handwritten script near the shoulder and three thin horizontal bands below it.
Script lettering and lines on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo on the upper arm with a feather, flying birds, shaded clouds and the script quote 'Your wings were ready but my heart was not'.
Feather, birds and quote on upper arm
Black and grey realistic moon tattoo with the words LA LUNA above it, on the upper arm of a person wearing a dark t-shirt.
Realistic moon and La Luna lettering on upper arm
Black handwritten-style lettering tattoo on the upper arm reading a quote in quotation marks, with an attribution line beneath it, in a lettering style.
Handwritten quote tattoo on upper arm
Black fine line script tattoo running down the outer upper arm of a person wearing a black lace bralette.
Script lettering along upper arm
Woman seen from behind with a vertical black Roman numeral tattoo running down her spine and a partial tattoo on her upper arm.
Roman numerals down the spine
Black and white photo of two arms showing matching fine line script tattoos reading Ohana on the upper arm.
Matching Ohana script on upper arms
Black lettering tattoo reading love, life, death doesn't discriminate in a typewriter-style font on the inner upper arm, in lettering style.
Love, life, death quote on an upper arm
Close crop of a woman's upper arm and shoulder showing a black fine line script tattoo running down the outer arm, in a lettering style.
Fine line script tattoo on upper arm
Shirtless torso with black script lettering across the chest, an eagle on the upper chest and neck, and tribal-style blackwork on the shoulder and upper arm.
Script lettering, eagle and tribal chest and arm tattoos
Black fine line script tattoo running across an upper arm, ending with an Om symbol.
Devanagari-style script line along the upper arm
Black and grey lettering tattoo on an upper arm, arranged in a stacked typographic layout with words including fierce, strong, love, wild and life.
Word tattoo on upper arm
Colour realism tattoo of a grimacing woman in a head wrap, with the words Ain't nobody got time for that beneath, on an upper arm.
Grimacing portrait with quote on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of fanned banknotes held in a hand, with green script lettering reading Get Money, on an upper arm.
Fanned banknotes and Get Money script on an arm
Colour tattoo of a brown songbird inside a wreath of leaves, flowers and berries with the words FREE INDEED above it, on the upper arm.
Bird and floral wreath with lettering on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of orchids and cursive script across the shoulder and upper arm.
Black and grey orchids with script on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of an open pocket watch with a clover and blackletter text reading et virtute, on an upper arm.
Pocket watch and clover on upper arm