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Tips For Your Lettering Tattoo

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

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

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

Below are a few tips to ensure yous receive the best tattoo, as well equally help you sympathize the tattoo procedure — including steps needed from you!

Inquiry the creative person and their portfolio.

The showtime step before getting whatsoever tattoo is to research the quality and skill of the various tattoo artists. But when it comes to lettering/words – it'southward important to go a stride further and seek out tattoo artists who specialize in strong lettering tattoos and fine line tattoos. Often, customers will make the mistake of seeing some great tattoos that catch their centre in portfolios, but that are nothing like the tattoos they are wanting to get. Not all artists enjoy or specialize in lettering tattoos, so this volition help ensure you lot find the correct creative person for your style tattoo!

Know your quote and check the spelling and accuracy.

Our shop has tried to arrive as like shooting fish in a barrel as possible for customers to submit tattoo requests, including our website, social media, phone and in-person, merely this convenience tin sometimes get challenging with discussion or lettering tattoos for a couple reasons. Often, clients will asking a quote tattoo without knowing specifically what they desire. While we appreciate and encourage the excitement, it is very difficult to schedule your appointment with the right artist, and for the right corporeality of time if You lot do not fifty-fifty know what you desire. This will also help forbid multiple last minute tattoo design changes, which can finish upwards costing y'all more fourth dimension (and more than money).

Nosotros as well strongly recommend proofing (and re-proofing) your tattoo lettering quote before submitting a request for an appointment. When we receive a tattoo request, we put that verbal data into our organization, and that verbal letting the states what the artist will ultimately utilise to create your tattoo. It is your responsibility to ensure the accuracy, grammer and spelling of the tattoo, prior to your appointment. 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 ever take the opportunity to view and proof your lettering BEFORE it gets tattooed, but we strongly suggest yous ensuring its accuracy from the kickoff!

Selecting a font for lettering tattoos.

Selecting the perfect font for your lettering tattoo is a fun and of import role of the process, but tin also be a pretty challenging aspect 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 always provide some guidance and tips, based on your specific tattoo and significant, just it is very important that you research and find the correct font to ensure you like the tattoo for the lifetime of the tattoo.

There are a number of styles that yous can cull from, including script, handwritten, bold, typewriter/book, old english, delicate/fine line and custom. We recommend looking on such websites every bit www.DaFont.com or 1001freefonts.com, which allow you to preview your specific quote in the various font styles. Once you have narrowed it downwardly to 1 or 2 fonts, be sure to screenshot or save your quote in that lettering, likewise as ensuring you tell us the font name, in case it is not in the screenshot.

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

Intricate fonts, or fonts with thick and thin lines do non make for good tattoos. This also applies for fonts that are very condensed or close together. As your tattoo ages, it volition naturally aggrandize within your skin. Intricate fonts will naturally brainstorm to expand, and overtime may distort the quality and legibility of the tattoo!
Your tattoo lettering size MUST be at least 1/ii″ tall or more. Tattoos less than this size will non last or concur upwards their legibility and quality well long term, which is why our artists will not tattoo minor lettering.
We practice not propose sure areas for your lettering tattoo, such every bit the side of your fingers, the side of your human foot, or within whatever natural bends or creases on your body (like the wrist crease or elbow ditch). Depending on how much tattoo coverage you have, our artists may refrain from any hand, neck or face up tattoos.

Stylizing your lettering tattoo

In addition to the font and style of your tattoo, there are besides diverse styles and techniques that our artists can do to customize your tattoo, such equally reverse lettering, shading, gradients, recreating signatures or handwriting, outling and more. If y'all accept ideas or examples of the mode you are wanting to accept tattooed, be sure to include those references with your tattoo request, or bring them with you for your consultation. If y'all are looking for something actually custom or stylized, nosotros highly recommend an creative person consultation, and may require it depending on the tattoo and/or selected creative person.

If you accept questions, please just ask!

We realize that in that location even so may be questions, ideas or clarification on various fonts, so please practise not hesitate to contact u.s.a. with examples of your lettering tattoo, font and design and our front desk team and artists will help talk y'all through the procedure to ensure yous are happy and comfy with your concluding design.

Hither is just a sample of lettering tattoos created hither at Stick Tattoo!