There are so many styles and movements in modern wold of βbody artβ, it was challenging to keep up with every single one of them. However, the middle ground was found, and we put together the most popular tattoo fonts categories for your convenience. These are not necessarily fonts for tattoo, but just a harsh and terse-looking lettering to make a fizzy splash in your toolbox of hand-picked typography. Our personal favourites and the most-downloaded ones are here!
Our Teamβs Top Pick
Alevantre
elements.envato.com
Calligraphy Tattoo Fonts
Aortascarta
elements.envato.com
Millenia
fontspace.com
Rumble Brave Vintage Fonts
elements.envato.com
Symphony Font
fontspace.com
Custody Script – Tattoo Font
elements.envato.com
Alevattros
dafont.com
Cristone Blackletter Font
elements.envato.com
Sewstain Font
1001fonts.com
Mardian
dafont.com
Alone Together Script
fontlot.com
Killviners Blackletter Font
pixelbuddha.net
Inked Skin
dafont.com
Caroollina
dafont.com
Angilla Tattoo
dafont.com
Vintage Traditional Tattoo Fonts
Comodo Sans Serif
pixelbuddha.net
Mexicanos
elements.envato.com
Bear & Loupe Font Family
pixelbuddha.net
Traditional Tattoo Parlour
dafont.com
Bvas Estadas
elements.envato.com
Strong West – Retro Tattoo Font
elements.envato.com
Candelabra Blackletter Font + Extras
designcuts.com
A font-family inspired by the Old English style in typography. It has a vintage feel with a more modern day approach. This is an informal hand-drawn tattoo font with a blackletter touch, that works perfectly with script and sans serif fonts enabling you to create beautiful logo and type lockups. This font is great for display use on posters, packaging, editorial and logos.
Royal King β Old Vintage Display Font
elements.envato.com
The Lastring – Tattoo Script Font
elements.envato.com
The Lastring is a traditional tattoo font, combining script look and gothic style, bringing the spirit of vintage and retro. Its vine-resembling characters are perfect for gothic lovers, and brands such as barbershops, motorcycle clubs, coffee shops, shoe and clothing, vapor shop, wine industry, brewing, and other personal projects you might come up with.
Incognite Tattoo Font
elements.envato.com
Tattoo Shop
dafont.com
Acuentre
dafont.com
Hero Beam Typeface
designcuts.com
Here comes the typeface I would definitely like to use for one of my future projects! Hero Beam tattoo is a decorative vintage typeface, remastered for a modern performance. This tattoo font includes 2 types of each letter, uppercase & lowercase characters, punctuation and numerals. It is made to decorate your logos, posters, merchandise, headlines and, surely, sketches!
Billy Money
designcuts.com
Bogus Jack β Vintage Font
designcuts.com
Here is yet another tattoo typeface with a classic look! It’s made in strong and dynamic label style and is absolutely perfect for any label design, especially for a whiskey, rum or brandy bottle label. The collection itself comes with stylistic alternates that you can mix however you want, adding a tattoo design to another project youβre working on.
Blacktail β Vintage Font
designcuts.com
Introducing traditional tattoo styles, basically, speaking for themselves. This family includes four styles β Regular, Shadow, Drop Shadow and Sword. Each of them transforms the text into a whole new composition, donβt miss the chance to try them all out. The typeface will fit any retro design like poster, t-shirt, label, logo etc. Your audience and personal experience is destined to be unforgettable.
Veinline β Victorian Vintage Script
designcuts.com
Hoolegan β Vintage Font
designcuts.com
With this tattoo font duo you can recreate old-school lettering styles and tattoo-inspired graphics on the spot! Not only this typeface duo includes one monoline script typeface with uppercase and lowercase characters, but also one bold sans serif with only uppercase characters. In fact, the typefaces are so easy to use because they complement each other. Also, this duo is perfect for recreating vintage old-school graphics.
Sailor Tattoo Fonts
El Capitan Hand-Drawn Font
pixelbuddha.net
EL PIRATOS – Sailor Tattoo Font
elements.envato.com
Dead Marine
elements.envato.com
The Sailor Typeface
designcuts.com
Letβs jump right into it: this old tattoo type is ideal for banners and scrolls with traditional designs or posters with a lot of text. With 4 weights and a multitude of alternate letters, you can give the text a real hand-written feel.