Lettering tattoo ideas

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Dandelion seed head on a long stem with fine script lettering across the ribs, shaded in grey with a soft purple-pink head.
Dandelion seed head and script quote on ribs
Black line drawing of a cross, a heartbeat line ending in a heart, and the words Faith, Hope and Love in script, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Cross, heartbeat and heart with Faith Hope Love
Forearm before and after: black text tattoo with spelling errors, then a realistic notebook page tattoo with red corrections over the same words.
Text cover-up on a forearm, notebook paper
Black fine line script reading Dreams do come true followed by a solid mouse ears silhouette with a small heart, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Dreams do come true script with mouse ears
Black script lettering reading Don't forget to love yourself across the upper chest, in a fine lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black and white photo of a black script tattoo reading "Monsters are real" on the inner wrist, in a lettering style.
"Monsters are real" script on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading NEVER, give up, back down, lose faith in mixed block and script type across the side of the ribs.
Never give up lettering quote on ribs
Black and white photo of the words Quiet is Violent tattooed in a serif typeface across the inner forearm near the wrist.
Quiet is Violent lettering on a wrist
Black script lettering tattoo reading Famiglia on the ankle and top of the foot, shown with a cream high-heeled shoe.
Famiglia script on an ankle
Small black script tattoo on the lower back of a person in a neon green bikini, seated on the edge of a white boat.
Small script tattoo on lower back
Black line design of a feather with a flock of birds rising above script lettering that reads Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, on a white feathered background.
Feather and birds with script quote
Black script tattoo reading Wanderlust across the top of a foot resting on a colourful street map.
Wanderlust script tattoo on a foot
Black lettering reading 'this war is mine' tattooed horizontally across the ribs, with a paper towel held above the skin.
Quote reading this war is mine on the ribs
Black cursive script reading We're broken people runs diagonally across the top of a foot, beside a small red, blue and grey abstract mark.
Script lettering across the top of a foot
Three raised wrists with gold foil Team bride lettering tattoos on the forearms, against a sunlit beach.
Gold foil Team bride temporary tattoos on wrists
Colour tattoo of a circular wreath of pink roses, a blue flower and green leaves around blue-grey lettering, on the inner forearm.
Floral wreath with monogram on a forearm
Black blackletter-style lettering reading Expecto Patronum with pink and blue watercolour splashes behind it, tattooed on a lower leg above a grey canvas trainer.
Expecto Patronum lettering on a calf
Small black fine line lettering reading BE HAPPY in capitals on a person's forearm, against grey striped fabric.
Be Happy lettering on a forearm
Two black and grey matching skeleton key tattoos with crown bows on forearms, one labelled His Only and the other Her Only in script.
Matching key tattoos with His Only and Her Only
Colour tattoo of a pink rose with a green stem and black script reading Tale as old as Time across the fingers of a hand, shown in a Hand placement.
Script quote and rose on a hand
Fine line black tattoo of a hand holding a bunch of wildflowers with the words hold on beneath, on the side of a ribcage.
Hand holding wildflowers with hold on script
Two clasped hands with matching fine-line black Roman numeral lettering reading XIV II MMXII on the fingers, styled as lettering on the hand.
Roman numeral date tattoos on two fingers
Black lettering tattoo reading 'And though she be but little, she is fierce' in a serif script on a woman's ribs, with a bikini top and sea behind.
Quote tattoo on the ribs
Fine line tattoo on the back showing a teal cross and a blue-to-purple heartbeat line leading to a red heart, above black script reading Faith Hope Love.
Faith Hope Love script with cross and heart
Fine line black script quote tattooed along the outer thigh of a woman in a floral skirt, with her hands holding the hem.
Script quote on a thigh
Black lettering tattoo in two lines of angular script across the inner wrist and hand, shown in a close photograph.
Two lines of script on an inner wrist
Black and grey Roman numeral lettering tattoo on the left ribs of a person in a black bra, shown in a black and white photograph.
Roman numeral lettering on the ribs
Colour tattoo on a thigh of a sphynx cat wearing gold necklaces, with pink roses, green leaves and the script words Stay Loyal Tell No Lies.
Sphynx cat and roses on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo of a red and white handshake with green cuffs, with the words Love your friends above and Die laughing below, on an arm.
Handshake with Love your friends lettering
Black fine line script lettering reading valar morghulis on the inner wrist of a raised arm, against a blurred tree background.
Small script lettering on the inner wrist
Two forearms resting palm up on a white sheet, with fine line black script tattoos and a small heart outline on the forearm.
Fine line script and a heart on two forearms
Black and grey tattoo of three folded banknote triangles on skin, shown beside a hand tattoo of Family First script lettering on the back of the hand.
Banknote triangles and Family First hand script
Colour tattoo of the cartoon fish Dory above the words Just Keep Swimming in black lettering, on a forearm.
Dory with Just Keep Swimming lettering on a forearm
Black and grey flash design of a stippled full moon above the script words Fly me to the moon, shown on a plain light background with no body placement visible.
Full moon with script lettering flash
Four panels show a black script lettering tattoo on the sole of a foot reading Together forever, Never apart, Maybe in distance and but never in heart, with a small red heart at the end.
Four-panel script quote tattoo on a foot
Colour tattoo of a trout above waves with the script words Gone Fishin' in Heaven, placed on the left ribs.
Gone Fishin' in Heaven on a rib
Forearm tattoo of the script quote 'the rhythm of life is a powerful beat' with a red heartbeat line running through the middle of the phrase.
Heartbeat line and quote on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading He walks with me, followed by an outlined cross, on the outer side of a foot.
He walks with me script and cross on a foot
Colour tattoo of the blue tang fish Dory from Finding Nemo with the words Just keep swimming in black script beneath her, on a area of pale skin.
Dory with Just keep swimming script
Black cursive lettering of a poem runs down the back of a neck in a lettering tattoo, photographed from behind.
Script lyrics down the back of the neck
Close view of a white t-shirt printed with black line drawings of hands holding cigarettes, beside a forearm with small black script lettering and a tiny hand tattoo.
Hand-print tee with script forearm tattoos
Forearm tattoo of the words Diabetic Type 2 Blood B+ in black script, surrounded by soft purple and blue swirls and small red sparkles.
Diabetic Type 2 lettering with swirls on forearm
Grey arched lettering with swash tails across the upper back, reading Mississippi, on a sunburnt back.
Arched lettering across upper back
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading ART MUSIC LOVE with scroll flourishes on the inside of a wrist.
Art, music and love lettering on a wrist
Black typewriter-style lettering reading 'breathe.' on the inner wrist and forearm of a person whose hand is raised at the top of the frame.
'breathe.' lettering on the inner wrist
Black script tattoo reading Walk by faith and Not by sight, with swirls and a small flourish across the top of a foot.
Walk by faith quote with swirls on a foot
Close photo of a small fine line script word love tattooed on the side of a finger, in a fine line lettering style, on a hand against a blurred night background.
Script love tattoo on a finger
Black lettering tattoo reading She has no idea. The effect she can have. across the top of a foot in glitter ballet flats.
Quote tattoo on top of foot