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Tips For Your Lettering Tattoo

At Stick Tattoo, we often take clients requesting lettering tattoos, and then we wanted to share some tips to ensure you receive the best tattoo, and have the best experience possible! Tattoo lettering has been pop for many years because, for many, expressing meaning, emotion or remembrance is often easier with words than pictures. In that location are a number of ideas and concepts that yous can do with lettering or give-and-take tattoos, such as:

Motivational or Inspirational Quote Tattoos
Memorial Quote Tattoos
Signatures of Loved Ones
Family Quotes/Proverb Tattoos
Bible Verse Tattoos
Patriotic Lettering Tattoos
And More

The unique possibilities for lettering tattoos are endless, which is a great way to help create something that is special or meaningful to you lot.

Below are a few tips to ensure you receive the all-time tattoo, every bit well as help you understand the tattoo process — including steps needed from you!

Research the artist and their portfolio.

The first step before getting any tattoo is to enquiry the quality and skill of the various tattoo artists. Just when it comes to lettering/words – it's important to get a footstep further and seek out tattoo artists who specialize in stiff lettering tattoos and fine line tattoos. Often, customers will brand the fault of seeing some great tattoos that catch their centre in portfolios, merely that are nothing like the tattoos they are wanting to get. Not all artists enjoy or specialize in lettering tattoos, and so this will help ensure you find the right creative person for your way tattoo!

Know your quote and check the spelling and accurateness.

Our shop has tried to brand it equally like shooting fish in a barrel as possible for customers to submit tattoo requests, including our website, social media, telephone and in-person, but this convenience can sometimes go challenging with word or lettering tattoos for a couple reasons. Often, clients volition request a quote tattoo without knowing specifically what they want. While nosotros appreciate and encourage the excitement, it is very difficult to schedule your date with the right creative person, and for the correct amount of fourth dimension if YOU do not even know what you want. This will also help prevent multiple last minute tattoo design changes, which tin end upwardly costing you lot more time (and more money).

We besides strongly recommend proofing (and re-proofing) your tattoo lettering quote earlier submitting a request for an appointment. When nosotros receive a tattoo request, we put that exact data into our arrangement, and that verbal letting us what the artist will ultimately utilise to create your tattoo. It is your responsibleness to ensure the accuracy, grammer and spelling of the tattoo, prior to your engagement. We have some extremely talented artists, but we are non spell-checkers, able to decipher slang/concepts or ensure accuracy on long quotes. Y'all will always take the opportunity to view and proof your lettering BEFORE it gets tattooed, simply nosotros strongly propose you ensuring its accurateness from the first!

Selecting a font for lettering tattoos.

Selecting the perfect font for your lettering tattoo is a fun and important part of the procedure, but can likewise be a pretty challenging attribute due to the endless number of fonts available. Because of this, we require our tattoo lettering customers to research and select the correct font for their tattoo prior to their appointment. Our artists will ever provide some guidance and tips, based on your specific tattoo and meaning, just it is very of import that yous enquiry and find the right font to ensure y'all similar the tattoo for the lifetime of the tattoo.

There are a number of styles that yous can choose from, including script, handwritten, bold, typewriter/volume, old english language, delicate/fine line and custom. We recommend looking on such websites as www.DaFont.com or 1001freefonts.com, which allow you to preview your specific quote in the various font styles. One time you have narrowed it downwardly to 1 or 2 fonts, be certain to screenshot or save your quote in that lettering, also equally ensuring you tell us the font proper name, in case it is non in the screenshot.

**** Delight continue these few things in mind when selecting a font:

Intricate fonts, or fonts with thick and thin lines do not brand for good tattoos. This also applies for fonts that are very condensed or close together. As your tattoo ages, it will naturally expand within your peel. Intricate fonts will naturally begin to aggrandize, and overtime may distort the quality and legibility of the tattoo!
Your tattoo lettering size MUST be at least ane/2″ tall or more. Tattoos less than this size will not last or hold up their legibility and quality well long term, which is why our artists will not tattoo small lettering.
We do non suggest certain areas for your lettering tattoo, such every bit the side of your fingers, the side of your foot, or within any natural bends or creases on your body (similar the wrist crease or elbow ditch). Depending on how much tattoo coverage you accept, our artists may refrain from any hand, neck or face tattoos.

Stylizing your lettering tattoo

In addition to the font and style of your tattoo, there are besides various styles and techniques that our artists tin can exercise to customize your tattoo, such as opposite lettering, shading, gradients, recreating signatures or handwriting, outling and more. If you take ideas or examples of the style you are wanting to accept tattooed, exist sure to include those references with your tattoo request, or bring them with yous for your consultation. If you are looking for something really custom or stylized, nosotros highly recommend an artist consultation, and may require it depending on the tattoo and/or selected artist.

If you lot accept questions, delight but ask!

Nosotros realize that there withal may exist questions, ideas or clarification on various fonts, so please practice not hesitate to contact us with examples of your lettering tattoo, font and pattern and our front end desk-bound team and artists volition help talk yous through the process to ensure yous are happy and comfortable with your concluding pattern.

Here is just a sample of lettering tattoos created here at Stick Tattoo!