Lettering tattoo ideas

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Black ink tattoo on the inner wrist reading Music is Life in script with an underline, above rewind, pause, fast forward and repeat icons.
Music is Life lettering with media player icons on a wrist
Black script lettering of a poem verse across the side of a torso, placed on the ribs.
Poem verse in script along the ribs
Fine line black tattoo of a US state outline resembling Kentucky, with the word home in script beneath it, on the top of a foot.
State outline with 'home' script on a foot
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a shaded feather and an infinity symbol with the words stay strong on the upper arm.
Feather and infinity with stay strong on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading 'Too weird to live, too rare to die' with a small arrow above it, across the upper back and neck.
Handwritten quote and arrow on upper back
Black brush lettering design reading Fuck around and find out, with sweeping underlines, drawn on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Fuck around and find out lettering design
White ornamental lettering reading Serenity, with swirling flourishes above and below, on a plain black background, shown as a tattoo design.
Serenity lettering with flourishes
Black and grey portrait tattoo of a bearded man with shoulder-length hair on the upper arm, with the lettering Only Grohl can judge me below it.
Black and grey portrait with quote on upper arm
Woman in a white mandala sun print t-shirt, with black lettering and a red rose tattoo on her forearm and upper arm.
Lettering and rose tattoos seen beneath a mandala tee
Two black ink infinity heart tattoos with script text, one reading My Brother's Keeper and one reading My Sisters Protector, on two forearms.
Matching infinity heart tattoos on forearms
Colour tattoo of a pink flower with a green stem inside a circle of black lettering reading A Person's A Person No Matter How Small, on the lower abdomen.
Circular quote around a pink flower on the stomach
Red pencil sketch of a neo-trad tattoo design showing a sugar skull woman with pinned curls, a profile of a man with a quiff, and a Vigilante script banner.
Sugar skull woman and profile man flash
Close-up of a fine script lettering quote tattooed along a forearm in dark ink, with striped fabric and a dark garment in the background.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Still I rise across the inside of a forearm.
Still I rise script on a forearm
Black sans-serif lettering reading Made by Mattel with a trademark symbol, tattooed vertically along the sole of a foot on a dark leather surface.
Made by Mattel lettering on the sole of a foot
Black lettering tattoos reading BRAAAP with an arrow on the back of one hand, and BRAKE and CLUTCH across the fingers of the other hand.
BRAAAP, brake and clutch lettering on hands
Black lettering tattoo reading i came. i swam. i conquered. in a condensed typeface across the inner wrist and forearm, with a raised fist and a lake behind.
Three-line quote tattoo on a forearm
Small tattoo of an open book with a pink cover and scattered grey letters above it, on the inner forearm.
Open book and floating letters on a forearm
Black and white photo from behind of a fine line script tattoo reading lux in tenebris on the upper back, with the figure's hair in a loose bun.
Lux in tenebris script on upper back
Colour tattoo of a pink Truffula tree with a green stem above a black quote reading Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, on a forearm.
Truffula tree and quote on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading Never Grow Up across the upper back, with a small green and red heart shape between the words.
Never Grow Up script on upper back
Black lettering tattoo in a serif typeface reading Strength is what we gain from the madness we survive, across a shoulder and upper back.
Strength quote tattoo on a shoulder
Black and grey photo of a serif lettering tattoo reading "; not ended" across the inside of a forearm near the wrist.
Semicolon and "not ended" on a wrist
Small red hand-lettered tattoo reading wild, with two short rays above it, on an ankle.
Wild script on an ankle
Woman seen from behind in a red lace dress with an open back, showing a small black script lettering tattoo across her upper back.
Small script tattoo on upper back
Black and grey dotwork mandala tattoo with the words Let it be in fine script above it, on the inner forearm.
Let it be mandala on a forearm
White script lettering reading Be Brave above a horizontal arrow, shown as a tattoo design on a black background.
Be Brave script lettering with arrow
Black and grey fine line lily with a Greek word in script lettering beside it, tattooed on the side of the torso.
Lily and Greek lettering on the side of the torso
Two inner forearms with matching black fine line tattoos: an arrow above the words I'm the arrow, and a moustache above the words You're my bow.
Matching arrow and moustache forearm tattoos
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a safety pin with a bow and two lettered ribbons, drawn on paper with no body part visible.
Safety pin and bow with lettered ribbons
Black brush-style lettering design repeating the word HAHA in staggered, overlapping rows, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Haha brush lettering design
Close-up of black block lettering reading DANGER ZONE tattooed on the inside of a lower lip, pulled down by two fingers.
Danger Zone lettering on lower lip
Black fine line tattoo of the word Always in cursive script beside a Deathly Hallows symbol on the inner wrist and forearm.
Always script with Deathly Hallows symbol
Watercolour-style phoenix with black linework and a script quote, Those we love never truly leave us, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Phoenix and script quote on upper back
Back view of a person with curly brown hair showing a small black fine line script lettering tattoo on the upper back, with the wording partly faint.
Script lettering phrase on upper back
Black ink drawing of the word hope in flowing hand-lettered script, with two feathered arrows passing beneath it, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Hope script lettering with two arrows
Fine line tattoo of the words Stay Strong in black script above a small pink and purple botanical wreath on the inner upper arm.
Stay Strong script and floral wreath on upper arm
Black lettering reading 'Not all those who wander are lost' with two bird silhouettes, tattooed along the side of a foot near the ankle.
Quote tattoo with birds on a foot
Black and grey photograph of two feet, each with a fine line tattoo of a split heart pendant on a chain anklet, with lettering on the halves, placed on the ankle.
Matching broken heart anklet tattoos on two feet
Fine line black tattoo of a dumbbell with the words DON'T GIVE UP above it, on the outer upper arm of a person photographed from behind.
Dumbbell and lettering on upper arm
Black fine line tattoo of the word love in cursive script inside looping teardrop shapes, placed on the upper back near the neck.
Love script in loops on upper back
Black line drawing of a plain cross with the handwritten script reference 2 Cor 5:17 beside it, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Cross with 2 Cor 5:17 script
Black and grey script tattoo on the upper back reading a rain quote, surrounded by shaded water droplets that run down beneath the text.
Quote and raindrops across upper back
Black script tattoo reading Choose Love on the inner wrist, in a flowing lettering style with a looped capital C and L.
Choose Love script on the inner wrist
Black fine line script reading Just Breathe with a shaded dandelion and drifting seeds, tattooed on the upper back.
Just Breathe script with dandelion seeds
Black and grey realism tattoos of roses, a compass and script on a woman's leg and thigh, with small birds on the ankle, photographed in a bath.
Rose and compass leg sleeve with script
Black lettering tattoo reading a quote in a handwritten script, running along the inner forearm.
Quote in script along a forearm
Black and grey script tattoo on the ribs reading Each day is a gift and not a given right, framed by a shaded ribbon bow and scrollwork.
Script quote with ribbon bow on ribs