Lettering tattoo ideas

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Close photo of a lettering tattoo on the inner wrist, a black serif quote with a small red lips motif, on a pink textured background.
Bachelorette quote and red lips on wrist
Back of a person with a thin black script lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of the spine, shown on bare skin.
Vertical script line along the spine
Close-up of black fine script reading Stay Strong with a small heart, tattooed on the inside of a wrist beside gold bracelets.
Stay Strong script on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Your heart beats no matter how much pain you are in, across the hip in a lettering style.
Script quote along the hip
Colour tattoo on a forearm showing blue, orange and purple Virgo script above a stylised woman with flowing hair and flower motifs.
Virgo script and flowing figure on a forearm
Three people hold their palms up to show matching All My Love script tattoos on their inner wrists, in black ink with the middle one faded.
Matching All My Love script on three wrists
Black tattoo of a cross and a flock of birds rising from the shoulder, with lettering along the upper back, in a lettering style.
Cross and birds with script on upper back
Black ink typewriter-style lettering reading 'To live is the rarest thing' on the left side of a person's ribs, with a dark garment pulled up beside it.
Quote lettering on the ribs in black ink
Black lettering reading not all those who wander are lost, with two small bird silhouettes, tattooed along the side of a bare foot on wet sand.
Quote and birds along a foot
Black and white blackletter alphabet sheet showing upper and lower case letters A to Z in an ornate lettering style.
Blackletter alphabet lettering sheet
Black fine line script reading Keep on running with a small outlined heart beneath it, tattooed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Keep on running script with a small heart
Pencil sketch of two crossed arrows with the words BE, AND, STILL and KNOW set around the crossing point, a lettering-led tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Crossed arrows with 'Be still and know' lettering
Two wrists with matching black script tattoos reading Queen and King, one wrist wearing a gold chain bracelet.
Queen and King script tattoos on wrists
Black fine line script reading 'We shall never drift apart' with an anchor, tattooed on the top of a foot and on a lower leg above the ankle.
Matching anchor and script quote on feet
Black and grey flash sheet showing three arrow designs, two with script wording such as aim in life and keep aiming, with no body placement shown.
Three arrow designs with script quotes
Black fine line bow tattoo on the back of a wrist, with script lettering reading Trust Yourself on the inner forearm and Love across a finger.
Bow and script words on hand and forearm
White cursive lettering reading Stay Strong with a small outlined heart on a black background, a black and grey lettering design.
Stay Strong script lettering with a heart
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading everything happens for a reason across the inner forearm.
Handwritten quote on a forearm
Colourful hot air balloon tattoo with mandala patterns and the word freedom in black script on the thigh.
Hot air balloon and freedom script on a thigh
Fine line black infinity symbol tattoo with two names in cursive script on the inner wrist.
Infinity symbol with script names on wrist
Fine line black script reading lumos with a four-pointed star beside it, tattooed on a wrist.
Lumos script and star on a wrist
Black ink line drawing of a segmented serpent biting its own tail in a circle, with the lettering Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration set around the edge.
Circular serpent design with quote lettering
Small black lettering tattoo of a copyright symbol and the year 1982 on the side of an ankle.
Copyright symbol and 1982 on an ankle
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading Believe with a shaded blue butterfly above it, on the top of a foot wearing a flip flop.
Butterfly and Believe script on a foot
Black serif numerals reading 221B tattooed on the inner forearm close to the wrist, with a skin tone background.
221B tattoo on the inner forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a blaster pistol with the words HAN SHOT FIRST beneath it, on the outer thigh of a person in denim shorts.
Blaster pistol tattoo on thigh
Black script lettering in fine handwritten style runs diagonally across a pale inner forearm and wrist.
Script lettering quote across the wrist
Black and grey tree tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder, with first names written among the leaves in script lettering.
Family tree with names on upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of an open book above the word wanderer in script, on the inner wrist of a light-skinned arm.
Open book and wanderer on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Released from my hand's, Sealed in my heart, across the back of a person's neck above a white T-shirt.
Script quote across the back of the neck
Close-up of a woman's forearm with black script lettering reading confía en tu corazón, with her smiling mouth and a pendant necklace visible.
Spanish script lettering on a forearm
Black lettering design of a two-line quote about an anchor and wings, with a hanging chain, a small anchor and a bird silhouette, shown on a plain white background.
Anchor and wings quote lettering design
Black script lettering reading "it is well" with a line over the word "it" on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design.
"it is well" script lettering design
Black and grey flash sheet of three script lettering designs reading Amor, Baby Girl and Princess, with small star accents between them.
Script lettering flash: Amor, Baby Girl, Princess
Black typewriter-style lettering reading FIGHT OFF YOUR DEMONS. across the inner forearm, in a lettering style.
Fight off your demons quote on a forearm
Colour tattoo of two blue birds on a branch with yellow, red and orange flowers and the words every little thing will be alright, in script on the inner forearm.
Blue birds, flowers and script quote on a forearm
Three black letters N, Q and R, each set in a yellow circle, run down the outer forearm of a person wearing a green patterned dress and tan leather bracelets.
Letters N, Q and R on a forearm
Black and white photo of a small fine line script tattoo on the inner forearm, near the wrist, with bracelets and a striped skirt visible.
Small script tattoo on a forearm
Two inner wrists side by side, each with a black script quote tattoo: the left reads What God has joined together and the right reads Let no man separate.
Matching script quote tattoos on inner wrists
Small black script tattoo on the upper back of a woman with her hair in a bun, photographed from behind against a city skyline.
Small script tattoo on upper back
Black script lettering reading he walks with me followed by an ellipsis, tattooed across the top of a foot in a Lettering style.
Script quote across the top of a foot
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Beloved on the inner forearm, with a hand resting across the arm and a dark buttoned coat behind.
Beloved script on a forearm
Two clasped hands showing black serif lettering reading Mr and Mrs in a typewriter-style font on the top finger segments.
Mr and Mrs lettering on fingers
Black serif lettering tattoo on a forearm reading "We are a part of you, invisible to anyone else".
Serif quote tattoo on the forearm
Black and white flash sheet of bird designs, including flying birds, perched birds on a swirling branch, a swallow-style pair, a hummingbird and script reading freedom, take me far, and we only part
Bird flash sheet with script phrases
Fine line black tattoo of a giraffe formed from the words stand tall, placed on the upper back near the shoulder.
Giraffe made of script on the shoulder
Black line drawing of the words HERE COMES THE SUN in hand-drawn lettering, with SUN inside a circle surrounded by a spiky sunburst outline, on a white background.
Here Comes the Sun lettering in a sun
Black lettering tattoo of two lines of Roman numerals on the inner forearm near the wrist, in a serif lettering style.
Roman numerals on the inner wrist