Lettering tattoo ideas

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Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading mispelled with a red wavy underline, like a spell-check mark, on an upper arm.
Mispelled with red spell-check underline
Woman with a black and grey tattoo sleeve on her left arm featuring dice, a tattoo of ornate swirls across her abdomen and script lettering on her thigh.
Sleeve, torso and thigh tattoos
Close photo of the words GIRL ALMIGHTY in small black block lettering on the inner upper arm.
Girl Almighty lettering on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a star with a cracked skin effect, filled with words such as friendship and freedom, on the upper arm and shoulder.
Cracked star with words on upper arm
Abstract portrait of a man in a hat on an upper arm sleeve, shaded in black and grey with green fill, red line, geometric lines and quote lettering.
Portrait of a man in a hat with quote on upper arm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading "I am with you" across the upper arm.
"I am with you" script on an upper arm
Black script lettering on the inner upper arm reads Sky above me, Earth below me, Fire within me.
Three-line script quote on inner upper arm
Black and grey realistic tattoo of an eye with long lashes and an intricate iris pattern, with 'Never Give Up' in script above it, on the upper arm.
Realistic eye with Never Give Up script
Fine line black ink tattoos on both arms of a person in a brown tank top, including a heart with text, a deer with butterfly wings and a feather, on the forearms and upper arms.
Small fine line tattoos across both arms
Upper arm tattoo of the words The Joke's On You in black lettering, with black Joker-style eyes and a red smile in a watercolour splatter style.
The Joke's On You lettering with Joker eyes on upper arm
Colour tattoo on an upper arm of a green tent among pine trees under a starry sky, with the words Home is where your heart is arched above and below it, in a traditional style.
Tent and pine trees with lettering on an upper arm
Black serif lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading we all have scars and we all have stories, in a lettering style.
Quote tattoo reading we all have scars
Black typewriter-style lettering reading 'My thoughts were so loud I couldn't hear my mouth' on an upper arm, in black and grey.
Quote tattoo on an upper arm
Woman in a pale lace top with colourful botanical tattoos on her upper chest and shoulder, including a rose design and a Stop and Smell the Roses wreath lettering piece.
Floral and script tattoos on chest and shoulder
Black and white photo of two upper arms, each with a small black script tattoo reading 'au revoir' above the elbow, one on each arm.
Matching 'au revoir' script on two upper arms
Small black lettering reading don't panic in a plain lowercase typeface on the inner upper arm.
Don't panic lettering on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull wearing a nurse's cap with a red cross, crossed syringes and script reading Registered Nurse est. 2013 on the upper arm.
Sugar skull nurse with crossed syringes
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Allons-y with a sonic screwdriver and dotted swirls on the outer thigh.
Allons-y lettering with sonic screwdriver on thigh
Black fine line infinity symbol with the words love and life in flowing script on an upper arm, with a hand resting beside it wearing two gold rings.
Infinity symbol with love and life script
Cheshire Cat tattoo with a grinning face, blue and green splashes and quote lettering across the upper arm.
Cheshire Cat and quote on upper arm
Black lettering reading KEEP GRL PWR on a woman's forearm, with a sleeve tattoo on the upper arm and small marks on the fingers.
Keep Girl Power lettering on forearm
Black and white photo of a small serif lowercase lettering tattoo reading acp on the upper arm, near the elbow.
Small lowercase lettering on upper arm
Close-up of fine black script lettering running vertically across a shoulder and upper arm, in a lettering style.
Vertical script lettering on a shoulder
Black ink tattoo spelling Always on the upper arm, with the letters built from Deathly Hallows triangles, a wand and other symbols.
Always lettering with Deathly Hallows symbols
Black and grey realism tattoo sleeve on an upper arm showing a Roman numeral pocket watch, a scrolled banner with script lettering, leaves and stars.
Pocket watch and script sleeve on upper arm
Black script reading California with small hearts on a woman's forearm, with black line-work flowers on her upper arm and elbow.
California script on a forearm
Black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing praying hands, a cross, clouds, rosary beads and script lettering.
Black and grey sleeve with praying hands and script
Upper arm sleeve tattoo in black and grey shading with a ship wheel, waves and a banner reading of the Sea, with pink flowers and a compass star.
Ship wheel sleeve with banner and flowers
Black and grey script lettering reading Dum Spiro Spero on an upper arm, with a dotwork stipple shading halo around the letters.
Dum Spiro Spero script lettering on upper arm
Black script lettering reading Bieber Feaver on an upper arm, on a person wearing a navy shirt.
Script lettering on an upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of a heart formed by a heartbeat trace, ending in the word sisters in script, on the inner upper arm.
Heartbeat heart with 'sisters' on upper arm
Fine line tattoo of a paint swatch card reading TATTONE and 5K1 N on the upper arm, beneath a grey sleeve.
Paint swatch card tattoo on upper arm
Black blackletter-style lettering reading SHIT HAPPENS, tattooed on the inner upper arm in black ink.
Shit Happens lettering on an upper arm
Fine line black script lettering reading geronimo on the upper arm, photographed close up against a floral fabric.
Geronimo script on upper arm
Watercolour-style tattoo on the upper arm showing a teal and pink heart inside a pink and teal circle, with a dandelion, two small birds and the script words The struggle is part of the journey.
Heart, dandelion and quote on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a rhino facing forward, with Against the Wind script above and below it, on an upper arm.
Realism rhino with Against the Wind script
Black script lettering across the ribs beside a black and grey realism sleeve with a pocket watch on the upper arm and forearm.
Script on ribs and pocket watch sleeve
Close crop of a person in a pale pink cut-out dress with black script lettering tattooed on the upper arm and across the upper chest.
Script tattoos on upper arm and chest
Black geometric triangle armband tattoo on the upper arm and a fine script quote along the ribs of a person seen from behind.
Geometric armband and script quote on ribs
Small black fine line tattoo of the word Bowie with a heart below it, on the upper arm of a person in a grey t-shirt, shown in black and white.
Small word and heart on upper arm
Small black lettering reading FLY on the upper arm of a person wearing a white embroidered-sleeve top, in a lettering style.
Fly lettering on an upper arm
Colour and black script tattoo reading Time will tell it always does with a blue TARDIS and pink smoke on the inner upper arm, in Lettering style.
Time will tell lettering with a TARDIS on upper arm
Two people with interlocked arms show black script tattoos: Every Saint Has A Past on a woman's forearm and Every Sinner Has A Future on a man's forearm.
Matching Every Saint and Sinner forearm tattoos
Woman in a black top showing a colour floral tattoo on her upper arm, with pink and red roses, green leaves and black script reading Stop and smell the roses.
Floral wreath with "Stop and smell the roses" script
Three-panel collage of black and grey tattoos: a tall pine tree on an upper arm, a detailed house with clouds on a forearm, and 'gone fishing' in script on a wrist.
Pine tree, house and 'gone fishing' script
Black script lettering reading Philippians 4.18 on the inner upper arm, with a dark band on the bicep above it.
Philippians 4.18 script on upper arm
Close crop of a small black lettering tattoo reading i've got the world to go on a woman's upper arm.
Quote lettering on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of an iced coffee cup with a yellow straw and teal ice cubes, with Death Before Decaf lettering, on an upper arm.
Iced coffee cup with Death Before Decaf lettering