Lettering style tattoo

Tattoos have gained popularity since ancient times, when shamans applied protective designs on themselves. Then tattoos became popular among sailors, later they were an attribute of informal people who belong to any subculture. Now in the modern world there is no framework in the choice of who can tattoo himself and who cannot. Therefore, so many different styles have evolved. In this article, we will consider lettering tattoos, describe the features of such tattoos, consider sketches, and also talk about places of application.

Inscription tattoos are gaining widespread popularity. This is due to two things:

1. many do not want to put drawings on their bodies, no matter how tiny they are;

2. more meaning can be put into the inscription, which, indeed, will be relevant all your life.

The text can be selected according to various criteria. It can be a date, a word, a person's name, a phrase, or an aphorism. All of this, like the drawing, will reflect a view of life.

Lettering - literally translated from English as "letter", "inscription". It turns out that lettering does not carry any additional function. So it is with tattoos. This is an inscription made in different styles and in different fonts.

The particular uniqueness of this style is that it is not subdivided by gender. That is, any font or lettering is not intended only for men or women. The inscriptions are chosen based on the special internal preferences of the person who will be filling himself with a tattoo. This also applies to meaning.Of course, there are aspects that women prefer more ornate letters and numbers, add stars, butterflies to the quote, and also choose thinner contour lines with the addition of different colors. Men, on the other hand, choose a brutal style with thick lines, bold edging, preferably black. But this can only be attributed to stereotypes, nothing more.

But nevertheless, the choice of a tattoo is quite laborious, even if, for example, an inscription was chosen, you must also choose a font, and this is a very difficult task.

In this age of technology, there are many sites that can pick up sketches with fonts, but it’s better to know which font styles are popular in order to choose the one.

The first thing you should pay attention to in a particular font is spacing between letters. This is especially true for small tattoos, because over time, the color may begin to fall out and dissolve, and then the inscription will turn into an unreadable blot that can hardly be corrected somehow. Only if you remove the tattoo or interrupt it with a new pattern.

Let's consider the main fonts that are chosen for labels.

• Letters... They are characterized by clear outline clarity and geometric simplicity. For these properties, Latin has become the most popular among other styles. Well, a large number of winged sayings in a dead language also add popularity.

• Gothic letters They are especially distinguished by broken, beveled lines with a kind of rounding at the ends. The outline of the letters is thick, bold. The lines are completely filled with color.

• Celtic letters. Celtic writing has its own special style that cannot be confused with anything. This feature lies in the fact that the capital letter at the beginning of the text has a lot of ornateness, some embellishments, and then there is a text of the usual size in the same style.

• Graphic letters or graffiti... This style evolved from the street art of painting on the walls. The style is characterized by several colors, two or three at most, a pronounced volume of letters that have a bold outline.

• Chinese characters... The East has always attracted those who are not indifferent. And if we take into account the fact that two relatively small hieroglyphs can contain almost the whole meaning of several lines, one can understand why this particular language has become so popular. But due to the fact that Chinese characters are difficult not only in translation, but also in writing, there are cases when one or another stick was depicted incorrectly.

• Other languages. This category includes languages ​​such as Arabic, English, French, Italian and Russian. Basically, the emphasis is on the phrase that a person wants to fill, and whether to translate it or not is the choice of each individually.

The sketch is made in English in Gothic script. As you can see, the lines are dominated by thick, completely filled with color. There is an ornateness in the letters that are written at the beginning and at the end of a word.

Sketch completed in lettering technique in Celtic. As you can see, the first letter of the word is large, pronounced and noticeable. The rest of the letters are written in the same size.

Sketch with Chinese characters... The main feature of Chinese tattoos is that the tattoo was painted with a brush.

Sketch of tattoo with latin inscription... Smooth lines, each letter is clear and located at a certain distance from each other.

The sketch is made in technique graffiti... The lines are not clear. Some carelessness in letters, relative unreadability.

The sketch of the tattoo is made in English lettering style. The letters are voluminous, rounded and very noticeable, the outline seemed to be drawn with a beveled marker.

Sketches completed in arabic... The lines are not thick, noticeable.

There are no rules for where a tattoo could be applied. Everything comes from purely personal preference.But there are still some points worth paying attention to. The first is, of course, the size of the tattoo, as well as the length of the intended inscription. If the tattoo is on the wrist, then it is necessary to reduce the selected inscription in size and see if the contours merge. If this still happened, then you must choose either another place or another inscription.

The second point is pain threshold of a person. Places such as the neck, fingers, hands, chest and ribs have a very low pain tolerance in almost all people. If the inscription is too large, it will be necessary to consult with the tattoo artist about the possibility of applying an ointment for pain.

Do you want others to see the tattoo, is the meaning of the inscription sacred to you, and no one should see it. If this is the case, then it is better to choose places that are hidden by clothes, for example, a sleeve will hide it. Another important point in choosing a place is that the skin in the place where the tattoo will be must be clean. There should be no moles or scars, as well as any cracks or skin diseases.

The most popular places on the body where tattoo inscriptions are stuffed are:

• hand;

• forearm;

• wrist;

• leg;

• stomach;

• place under the collarbone.