Lettering tattoo ideas

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Black script quote and a red watercolour-style flame with a smiling face on the ribs, with small fuzzy black soot shapes beside the text.
Quote and smiling flame on the ribs
Large geometric tattoo across a person's upper back with concentric rings, dotted lines, stars and a lettered quote, in black with pink and blue watercolour washes.
Geometric back piece with stars and quote
Fine black line tattoo of the state of California with the word California in script inside the outline, on the inner upper arm.
California state outline with script lettering on upper arm
Watercolour-style tattoo of purple and pink flowers, three black birds and vertical script on the side of the ribs.
Watercolour flowers, birds and script on ribs
Black script lettering tattoo on the upper arm of a woman in a pale pink dress with sheer sleeves, photographed from behind.
Script tattoo on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading 'nōsce tē ipsum' in a blackletter-style script across the inner forearm, above the wrist, with beaded and braided bracelets.
Latin lettering 'nōsce tē ipsum' on forearm
Back view of a woman in a blue sports bra with a small black fine line script tattoo reading Run Free on her upper back.
Run Free script on upper back
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo spelling the word love across the side of a finger, with red painted nails.
Love script tattoo on a finger
Forearm tattoo of a grey wolf with red splatter accents, with block lettering above reading Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared and humble when you are victorious.
Wolf and motto on a forearm
Black script lettering reading The Pain You Feel Today Is The Strength You'll Have Tomorrow, with a blue awareness ribbon, tattooed on a person's side ribs.
Script quote and blue ribbon on ribs
Black fine line lettering in a French script runs vertically down the centre of a woman's upper back, above a strappy beige top.
French script down the upper back
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading sisu on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script word 'sisu' near the collarbone
Small black fine line Devanagari script lettering on the inner wrist, photographed against a dark background.
Devanagari script on the inner wrist
Black fine line bird silhouettes and lettering tattoos across a woman's upper back, including the word freedom.
Bird and word tattoos across a back
Close-up of the words bad wolf in small lowercase serif lettering in pale grey ink on the side of a torso.
Small lettering reading bad wolf on the side
Realistic eye tattoo with a blue iris on the back of a hand, with grey script lettering above it.
Realistic blue eye tattoo on the hand
Traditional style flash sheet of nine tattoo designs with lettering, including a winged banner, a pie, a black car, a flaming coffin and a salt canister, with red sigils scattered between them.
Supernatural themed flash sheet
Black script lettering reading 'She believed she could so she did' with a small flourish and comma, tattooed across the top of a foot.
Script quote across the top of a foot
Colour tattoo of a blue crescent moon with clouds and yellow stars beside a script quote, on the side of the ribs, in a lettering style.
Crescent moon and quote on the ribs
Black script lettering reading 'Not all those who wander are lost' across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo across upper back
Geometric shark head tattoo in grey shading with red teeth and red lines, with red lettering below, on the outer thigh.
Geometric shark head with red lettering on thigh
Fine black Roman numeral tattoo reading XII XIII XXIV in clean lettering on the side of the ribs.
Roman numerals on the ribs
Black line drawing of the word love in script lettering, with a heart before it and an anchor replacing the v, on a white background.
Script love with heart and anchor
Black lettering tattoo reading "we're all mad here." in a typewriter-style serif font, running across the inside of a forearm.
"We're all mad here" quote on forearm
Fine line botanical tattoo of a pink flower with a black script word trailing from its stem, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Pink flower and script on collarbone
Black brush-lettered word SEEK followed by three dots on a plain white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Seek in brush lettering
Small black fine line script tattoo reading dance on the inner forearm, with a long looping stroke under the D.
Dance script word on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo of a giraffe whose neck and body are formed by the words Stand Tall in script, shown in a black and white photo of skin.
Giraffe outline with Stand Tall lettering
Fine line black script reading in a world of my own runs across a forearm beside an outlined daisy tattoo.
Script quote and daisy on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading Breathe, with decorative flourishes, on the inner wrist.
Breathe script on a wrist
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading Be good across the middle finger of a hand, in a lettering style.
Be good lettering on a finger
Traditional style tattoo of an hourglass with a red blood drip, the words TO GET YOU OFF MY MIND and a blue flower below, on the forearm.
Hourglass with blood drip and blue flower
Pen sketch of a tattoo design on lined paper showing a semicolon above the words INHALE and EXHALE, with two opposing arrows between them.
Inhale and exhale semicolon design sketch
Red line drawing of a heart with a sprig of three flowers and a black script quote beneath, a flash design with no visible body placement.
Heart with flower sprig and script quote
Black and grey photograph of the words NORMAL PEOPLE SCARE ME in block lettering tattooed on the inner wrist, with leather and metal bracelets worn below it.
Normal people scare me quote on wrist
Black block lettering reading BEER GOES HERE across the web of a hand between the thumb and index finger, with coloured tattoos partly visible at the edges.
Beer goes here lettering on hand
Handwritten black ink script on white paper reading I exist as I am, that is enough, with an attribution beneath, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Handwritten quote in script
Black fine line infinity symbol tattoo with the words love and life in script on a forearm, while a hand wearing rings grips the arm.
Infinity symbol with love and life script
Black script lettering reading "and in the end we will always have each other" across three lines on the side of the ribs.
Handwritten script quote on the side ribs
Black stylised lettering reading BAD on the inner forearm and wrist, shown against a cream panelled door.
Black lettering reading BAD on a wrist
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading Love on the upper arm, with a white lace top in the background.
Love script tattoo on an upper arm
Close view of a woman's lower abdomen at the beach with a small fine line script tattoo reading live love wander, placed above the bikini bottoms.
Small script tattoo on the hip at the beach
Black script lettering reading Faith, Strength and Trust on the upper back near the shoulder blade, with the crossbars of the T and t drawn as crosses.
Faith, strength and trust script on upper back
Black lettering reading HIC ET NUNC, set in a serif style, running diagonally across a man's forearm.
Hic et nunc lettering on a forearm
Black and white photo of a small black serif lettering tattoo reading JOY on the upper arm, just below a grey T-shirt sleeve.
JOY lettering on an upper arm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo of a three line quote on the ribs, with a hand resting above it.
Script quote along the ribs
Pencil drawing of flourished script lettering reading Generic Life Advice You've Heard Before, sketched on grid paper beside a black brush pen.
Script lettering design on grid paper
A flash sheet of twelve numbered handwritten script designs spelling the word fearless, in black ink on white, with no body placement shown.
Fearless word designs in script, twelve variations