Tattooing has a long history and was probably invented more than 10,000 years ago. From script and display fonts to bold and elegant ones, there are numerous tattoo fonts to choose from.
For a design to be successful, you need the right collection of fonts. Especially for retro and calligraphy designs, choosing an exceptional font is crucial. For this reason, we have identified the 51 best tattoo fonts that will frame your gothic and calligraphy designs in a great way.
We have created this article for those who want to use the ultimate list of fonts for their tattoo designs. Without further ado, let’s dive in.
Tattoo Fonts
Acuentre by ilhamtaro
If you are looking for a free font that reminds you of a beautifully hand-drawn tattoo, Acuente is an excellent choice. This font contains uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and specially designed punctuation.
Price: Free
Young Heart Font
Alit Design introduced one of the best calligraphy fonts on the market. This is an ideal font for numerous types of designs, such as logos and posters. Best of all, it is free to use for both personal and commercial use.
Price: Free
Tattoo Shop
Tattoo Shop does exactly what its name suggests; it’s an amazing font to remind your audience what a tattoo shop looks like. With over 300k downloads and a great collection of glyphs, this font is a must-have.
Price: Free
Old School – cool tattoo retro font
Doffdog is known for its great designs. Old School is a great choice for anyone interested in tattoo designs that use retro fonts. It includes four bonus logo templates, capital letters, punctuation, and numerals.
Price: Premium
Tattoo Master label font
Vozzy Vintage Fonts is the ultimate choice when it comes to vintage designs. With five font styles of Regular, Texture, Shadow, Full, and Aged, you will find everything you need to create a unique tattoo design.
Price: Premium
Sailors Diary Tattoo Style Font
Sailors Diary Tattoo Style Font is one of the best typefaces to choose from if you love retro fonts that bring to mind old sailor tattoos. It contains more than 220 alternate letters and 180 special characters, as well as punctuation to make your tattoo look like an old-school handmade design.
Price: Premium
Chicano Font | Tattoo Style
If you want to have a premium font for your tattoo designs, then Chicano Font is your choice. Chinano includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, a wide variety of punctuation and ligatures. In addition, the lowercase letters include exceptional alternatives and ending swashes.
Price: Premium
Familia Tattoo Lettering Font
Muntab_Art has created one of the most popular tattoo lettering fonts on the market. The bundle includes an amazing font full of beautiful swashes, all characters, numbers, and punctuation.
Price: Premium
Precious Font
Precious Font is an exceptional font that you can use for free for both personal and commercial use. If you are looking for a great free handwritten font, this is the one for you.
Price: Free
Beyond Wonderland Tattoo Font
Chris Hansen designed one of our favorite free tattoo fonts. Beyond Wonderland reminds us of both hand-drawn tattoos and scary Halloween fonts. For this reason, it is an ideal font for different design categories.
Price: Premium
Maldito Font | Tattoo Style
If you are looking for a typeface that reminds you of tattoos, Muntab_Art has created the one for you. Maldito is a very popular font that combines Mexican fonts with retro tattoo designs.
Price: Premium
Chicano Vol. 02 | Tattoo style
Chicano is a similar font to Maldito that has a few more calligraphy elements. The bundle includes all characters, numbers, punctuation, and numerous ligatures for unique outcomes.
Price: Premium
Chopin Script Font
Chopin is one of the best script tattoo fonts we could find. It can be used for free (personal and commercial use), and it is perfect for elegant calligraphy designs with ligatures.
Price: Free
Strong West – Retro Tattoo Font
As its name suggests, Strong West is one of the most well-known bold fonts with nostalgic elements. The serif typeface includes uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
Price: Premium
Cattedrale | Gothic Blackletter
When it comes to gothic fonts, it simply doesn’t get any better than Cattedrale. The font reminds us of metal music and gothic design. For this reason, it is perfect for clothing, branding, logos, and pretty much any gothic design.
Price: Premium
Rebel Bones bold Font
As its designer mentions, Rebel Bones is the ultimate font for motorcycle designs. The bundle is free to download and includes all-caps characters, numbers, and punctuation.
Price: Free
Serval
If you are looking for a more elegant tattoo font, Serval is a smart choice. Although the font is free to download and you can use it for personal designs, you have to contact the designer before any commercial use.
Price: Free
Lazyday
As with most script fonts, Lazyday is ideal for projects that need a handwritten touch. StringLabs are very well-known for their captivating tattoo fonts, and Lazyday is free to download and use for personal projects (no commercial use allowed without a license).
Price: Free
Lordish
With three different weights (thin/light/regular) and all essential characters and symbols, Lordish is a must-own gothic font. The bundle also includes ornaments and international characters.
Price: Premium
AZ Vintage Tattoo
Inspired by the early 1900s, AZ Vintage Tattoo font is a unique typeface. The font uses a retro look and is ideal for headlines and titles in retro designs. The package includes uppercase letters, numbers, and basic punctuation.
Price: Premium
Gold Queen Vintage Font
Gold Queen is an amazing choice for vintage fonts that remind of retro shops like tattoo studios and barbershops. Harry Kasyanov has specially designed uppercase characters, numbers, and punctuation.
Price: Free
Sewstain
Sewstain is a unique calligraphy font created by Typesgal. The font is free for both personal and commercial use and includes all needed characters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, and symbols.
Price: Free
Sailor Font
This sailor font is the best way to go if you are looking for a characteristic typeface to frame your vintage (pre WW2) designs. The bundle includes all-caps letters, numbers, and punctuation.
Price: Premium
Sacred Bridge Tattoo Font
Sacred Bridge is one of our favorite old fashion fonts. Bombastype designed a complete bundle that includes 11 fonts, numerous graphics, and all characters and symbols.
Price: Premium
Chompton
Chompton is a beautiful handwritten font, ideal for designs with urban characteristics. The font is 100% free to use for both personal and commercial use. Chomptom includes uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, and full punctuation.
Price: Free
Avestrava Gothic Font
If you are looking for a free gothic typeface to use for your tattoo designs, Avestrava is one of the best we could find. The font was recently designed by ilhamtaro and is free to use for personal designs.
Price: Free
Hugtophia Calligraphy Tattoo Font
Hugtophia is one of the best vintage fonts on the market. The demo version can be downloaded and used for free (personal use only). This typeface is one of the most elegant tattoo fonts on our list.
Price: Free
Sarcastic Typeface + Extras
Graptail designed Sarcastic, one of the complete tattoo font bundles we could find. With numerous ligatures, swashes, and contextual alternates, this OpenType font is a must-have.
Price: Premium
Lile Dahliya
If you’re searching for a calligraphic yet minimalist font, Lile Dahliya is simply the best choice. Alcode contains two different weights, a collection of ornaments, and all the essential characters.
Price: Premium
Ink Master old school tattoo font
Ink Master is one of the most popular old-school tattoo fonts on the market. The bundle is ideal for all kinds of vintage designs and includes six fonts, all characters, and multilingual support.
Price: Premium
Tattoo Deco
Tattoo Deco is a unique display font inspired by art deco construction. For this reason, this is a perfect typeface for numerous designs that need a sober style. The bundle includes all-caps characters and numbers.
Price: Premium
Brock Script Font
If you want a font that reminds you of yesteryear’s handwritten letters and poems, Brock is the best script tattoo font for you. The best part is that this font is free for both personal and commercial use.
Price: Free
Mardian Tattoo Font
Tattooed Sailor | Vintage Serif Font
SOUTHSIDE | EXTRA BONUS
Candelabra Font + Extras
Reckless + Fabulous DropCaps (Bonus)
Andaluzia
Tattoo Ink
The Bearded Sailor – Tattoo Font
Desirable Calligraphy
Tribal Font
Young Heart Typeface
Inked Skin
Caroollina
Secret Society
Starella Tattoo
Mortal Tattoo Font
Storm Fighter
Bad Sailor Typeface
S&S GreyHood Font Bundles
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I hope you enjoyed this collection of free and premium tattoo fonts. You can choose one of them to create a stunning tattoo on your skin. Don’t hesitate to share your tattoo in the comments below.
