{"id":71953,"date":"2019-10-17T04:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/30-best-tattoo-fonts-lettering\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T04:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:20:01","slug":"30-best-tattoo-fonts-lettering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/30-best-tattoo-fonts-lettering\/","title":{"rendered":"30+ Best Tattoo Fonts & Lettering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many designers now use tattoo lettering fonts to give an artistic hand-drawn look to their designs. In this post, we bring you a set of tattoo fonts you can use with your own design projects to create that same unique effect.<\/p>\n

The inconsistent, stylish, and decorative designs of the tattoo fonts help give a personalized look to various types of digital and print designs, including flyers, posters, social media posts, and even greeting cards. It\u2019s a great way to add an authentic feel to your designs to make them look like you\u2019ve hand-crafted it yourself.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gathered a collection of the best tattoo fonts with all sorts of designs and decorative styles (as well as tips for choosing a tattoo font<\/a>). Whether you\u2019re looking for a font to design a creative business card, a poster, or even working on a real tattoo design, you\u2019ll find plenty of choices on this list.<\/p>\n

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\nTop Pick<\/span><\/p>\n

Chicano \u2013 Tattoo Style Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Chicano<\/a><\/div>\n

Chicano is a stylish font that comes with a design inspired by classic tattoo designs. It features a set of characters with creative curves and waves that makes the entire font look quite amazing.<\/p>\n

The font also features both uppercase and lowercase letters with lots of ligatures as well as alternates and swashes for the lowercase letters.<\/p>\n

Why This Is A Top Pick<\/h3>\n

The elegant and classical design of this font is the reason why it\u2019s on top of our list. This font can be used in various designs ranging from tattoos to posters, flyers, and more as well.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dayles \u2013 Script Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Dayles<\/a><\/div>\n

This modern tattoo font features a script-style lettering design that will allow you to create more stylish designs for creative projects as well as professional designs, including tattoos. It includes uppercase and lowercase letters with swashes, ligatures, and more.<\/p>\n

Familia \u2013 Tattoo Lettering Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Familia<\/a><\/div>\n

Familia is a font made specifically for crafting tattoo designs. Of course, you can use it to make other types of designs as well. The font comes in OpenType and TrueType versions as well as with lots of stylistic alternates and swashes.<\/p>\n

American Traditional \u2013 Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"American<\/a><\/div>\n

This beautiful and minimalist tattoo font features a creative design inspired by traditional American tattoos, which will add an extra unique touch to your designs. All of the letters in this font are hand-crafted and comes in 2 weights.<\/p>\n

Black Jack \u2013 Script and Serif Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Black<\/a><\/div>\n

Black Jack is a modern vintage font that comes with a stylish tattoo inspired design. It has a bold attractive look that will make the text on your designs look like a label from an old packaging. The font also includes 400 glyphs and alternate characters as well.<\/p>\n

Gibrael \u2013 Tattoo Script Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Gibrael<\/a><\/div>\n

Gibrael is a tattoo script font with an artistic handwritten design. This font is perfect for designing greeting cards, logos, and even business cards. It comes with 600 glyphs and lots of alternate characters for creating unique designs of your own.<\/p>\n

Logawa \u2013 Free Script Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Logawa<\/a><\/div>\n

Logawa is a modern script-style tattoo font you can use to craft creative tattoos as well as various other designs. The font comes in 4 different styles and it\u2019s available in TrueType and OpenType formats.<\/p>\n

Millennium \u2013 Free Blackletter Typeface<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Millennium<\/a><\/div>\n

Millennium is a modern blackletter font you can also use as a tattoo font to create futuristic designs. The font comes with uppercase and lowercase letters as well as lots of symbols.<\/p>\n

Psalta \u2013 Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Psalta<\/a><\/div>\n

Psalta is a tattoo style blackletter font that features a narrow design for creating stylish titles and headlines in your posters, flyers, and T-shirt designs. The font includes several weights that let you choose from hairline thin to heavy bold. As a bonus, you\u2019ll also get a Cyrillic character set and Ornamental weight versions of the font.<\/p>\n

inuTattoo Script \u2013 Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"inuTattoo<\/a><\/div>\n

Just as the name suggests, this font also comes with a design that\u2019s inspired by the popular swirl tattoo designs. The font includes both uppercase and lowercase letters with numbers and symbols. You can use the font to design posters, flyers, and greeting cards.<\/p>\n

Wildcats \u2013 Vintage Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Wildcats<\/a><\/div>\n

Wildcats is a vintage calligraphy style tattoo font you can use to craft titles in your posters, flyers, badges, labels, and more. The font comes with multilingual support for 17 different languages along with 453 glyphs and lots of alternate characters.<\/p>\n

La Forest \u2013 Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"La<\/a><\/div>\n

Featuring a retro design the La Forest font comes with a creative design that will make your designs stand out from the crowd. The font includes 4 different styles, including regular, grunge, inline, and inline grunge.<\/p>\n

Goliath \u2013 Tattoo Style Display Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Goliath<\/a><\/div>\n

Goliath is another unique retro tattoo style font that also comes in 4 different styles. The font is perfect for designing vintage-themed posters, flyers, and even business cards. The stylish decorative design of the font will give a Victorian-era look to your designs as well.<\/p>\n

Rowan & Royal \u2013 Free Blackletter Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Rowan<\/a><\/div>\n

This free blackletter font is also a great choice for integrating a tatoo style title or making a logo for your casual brand. You can use it for free with your personal and commercial projects.<\/p>\n

Shanthika \u2013 Free Tattoo-Style Script Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Shanthika<\/a><\/div>\n

Shanthika is a beautiful free script font that also features an elegant tattoo-like character design. It\u2019s ideal for designing minimal tattoo-style designs for modern brands.<\/p>\n

Moyers \u2013 Vintage Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Moyers<\/a><\/div>\n

Moyers is a tattoo font that comes with a vintage design. It features an artistic design with decorative lines and edges to help you create unique and attractive titles, headers, and text in posters, T-shirt designs, and labels.<\/p>\n

Star \u2013 Creative Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Star<\/a><\/div>\n

This creative tattoo font comes in 8 different styles, including grunge, inline, and bold versions of the font. It features a unique retro design that will remind you of film posters from the 1930s. Which makes it perfect for vintage-themed design projects.<\/p>\n

Sandreas \u2013 Retro Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Sandreas<\/a><\/div>\n

This font has the look and feel of a classic vintage font right out of the 1950s. It\u2019s suitable for all kinds of design works, including label designs, packaging, badges, and posters. The font will make your design look one of a kind.<\/p>\n

Glaive \u2013 Modern Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Glaive<\/a><\/div>\n

Glaive is a modern display font that features many characteristics of a tattoo font, including decorative edges and a bold design. The font includes all-uppercase letters, numbers, and lots of alternate characters.<\/p>\n

De Arloy \u2013 New Art Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"De<\/a><\/div>\n

De Arloy is a vintage art nouveau font that also has a tattoo style elements in its design. The font features a design inspired by the signs and posters from the 1890-1910s. It includes uppercase and lowercase letters as well as ligatures and alternates.<\/p>\n

Ropstone \u2013 Free Tattoo Blackletter Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Ropstone<\/a><\/div>\n

This creative free blackletter font features a tattoo-style design that allows you to create various title and label designs. The font includes both uppercase and lowercase letters as well.<\/p>\n

Arlington \u2013 Free Layered Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Arlington<\/a><\/div>\n

Arlington is a vintage-themed tattoo font that comes with a design inspired by the Victorian-era. The font is perfect for label and badge designs. It\u2019s free to use with your personal projects.<\/p>\n

Flathead \u2013 Creative Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Flathead<\/a><\/div>\n

Flathead is a creative serif font that comes with a tattoo inspired design. The font comes in 3 different styles, serif, decorative, and regular. It\u2019s perfect for designing posters, greeting cards, and signage.<\/p>\n

Gatsby \u2013 ArtDeco Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Gatsby<\/a><\/div>\n

Inspired by the retro elements from the iconic 1925 book, this art deco font comes with a creative design that will give your designs an authentic look. The font features 5 different styles, including grunge, inline, and outline.<\/p>\n

The Crow \u2013 Vintage Style Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a><\/div>\n

The Crow is a unique font with a decorative design. It includes 8 different styles of the font featuring grunge, shadow, and inline. The create decorations in each of this font\u2019s letters will make your designs stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Sarcastic \u2013 Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Sarcastic<\/a><\/div>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a tattoo style font to design a badge, logo, or a label, then this font will come in handy. Sarcastic is a display font that\u2019s been inspired by vintage posters and it has a unique tattoo feel to it as well.<\/p>\n

Artzopo \u2013 Creative Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Artzopo<\/a><\/div>\n

Artzopo is a creative handmade font that features a design inspired by the 1970s. It includes both uppercase and lowercase letters as well as numbers and punctuations.<\/p>\n

Lemonade \u2013 Creative Script Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Lemonade<\/a><\/div>\n

Lemonade is a script font with a tattoo inspired design that comes with a unique and attractive design. The font is ideal for designing posters, banners, and T-shirts. It includes 5 vintage vector badges in AI and PSD format as a bonus as well.<\/p>\n

The Salvador \u2013 Retro Tattoo Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a><\/div>\n

The Salvador font has a truly vintage look that will remind you of vintage signage and posters from the old-school movies. The font includes 4 styles: Base, shadow, inline, and dotted inline.<\/p>\n

Oatmeal Jack \u2013 Creative Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Oatmeal<\/a><\/div>\n

This unique font comes with a hand-lettered design that also makes it a great choice for creating tattoo themed posters, headers, and greeting card designs. The font is available in script and serif versions.<\/p>\n

Enchanted Land \u2013 Serif Decorative Font<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Enchanted<\/a><\/div>\n

This font features many of the characteristics and elements of a creative tattoo style design. It\u2019s perfect for designing titles in your posters, flyers, and even social media posts. It includes lots of ligatures and alternates as well.<\/p>\n

5 Tips for Choosing a Tattoo Font<\/h2>\n

Tattoo fonts are not just fonts made for designing tattoos. They are commonly used in various designs to craft logos, poster titles, labels, and more. These tips will help you find the right font that matches your project.<\/p>\n

1. Look for the Curves<\/h3>\n
\"Rumble<\/a><\/div>\n

If there\u2019s one thing common with all tattoo fonts that\u2019s the stylistic curves. Tattoo fonts almost always come in serif style as it allows the designer to go wild with the curves. Mixing those curves with inconsistent character shapes gives birth to a tattoo font.<\/p>\n

2. Blackletter Fonts Also Works<\/h3>\n
\"Black<\/a><\/div>\n

Tattoo fonts and blackletter fonts<\/a> have a close relationship in terms of their style of character design. If you want to try a unique approach with your design, you should consider mixing tattoo and blackletter fonts in your design to make it look original and creative. Your client won\u2019t be able to tell the difference.<\/p>\n

3. Pick the Right Style<\/h3>\n
\"SOUTHSIDE<\/a><\/div>\n

While tattoo fonts always stick to serif font type, they come in various styles and themes. For example, there are script style tattoo fonts as well as fonts made inspired by vintage theme design. Depending on the type of design and brand you\u2019re working on, you should think about picking a font with the right style.<\/p>\n

4. Script vs Display Tattoo Fonts<\/h3>\n
\"Black<\/a><\/div>\n

Since tattoo fonts are rarely used to design body and paragraph text, the most common types of tattoo fonts are script and display. Script style tattoo fonts feature much wider and longer curves while display tattoo fonts have more stylistic serifs. Both styles can be used to design titles and sub-headings in various types of designs.<\/p>\n

5. Be Bold<\/h3>\n
\"Vanderink<\/a><\/div>\n

Chances are, if you\u2019re looking for a tattoo font, you\u2019re working on a project related to a casual brand or an entertainment-related project. So don\u2019t hold back on creativity. When choosing a font, choose one with a bold design that stands out. In fact, that\u2019s the whole point of using tattoo fonts.<\/p>\n

Check out our monogram fonts<\/a> and hand lettering fonts<\/a> collections for more tattoo-style font inspiration.<\/p>\n

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