Tattoo Font Generator

Tattoo Font Generator turns a name, a date, or a short phrase into tattoo lettering — and shows you what it will look like on your body before anything is permanent. Use it two ways: print it as a temporary tattoo you can wear today, or hand the stencil to your artist for the real thing.

Pick the font by looking at your own words

34 curated tattoo faces — Script, Fine-line, Old English, Gothic and Bold. Every thumbnail renders your text, not a sample word, so you are comparing the letterforms you will actually wear. Fonts whose numerals sit low get a small badge, which matters if you are tattooing a date.

See it on the body part you're actually getting it on

Twelve body parts — forearm, wrist, back of hand, finger, neck, chest, upper back, shoulder, upper arm, thigh, calf, ankle. Each is a real 3D surface you can rotate, so the lettering curves and catches the light the way it will on skin. The readout tells you how much room that part actually has: a forearm is about 66 × 250 mm.

Ink is a free colour picker. The default is a healed green-black — what most black tattoos settle into after a year, rather than the pure black they look like on day one.

It tells you when the lettering is too fine to last

Tattoo lines widen 10–20% in the first year and keep softening after that, so a line that looks crisp on paper can close up on skin. The Result card checks the thinnest stroke of your font at your size — against the body part you picked. Hands, fingers and ankles wear faster and need a heavier line (around 0.5 mm) than a forearm (around 0.4 mm), so the same font at the same size passes in one place and gets flagged in another. It only warns; it never quietly changes your settings.

Wear it first as a temporary tattoo

The same file prints onto temporary tattoo transfer paper. Wear the exact size, font and placement for a week before you commit — it is the cheapest possible way to find out that 20 mm was too small, or that you actually wanted it on the wrist.

Files made for the next step

- Stencil SVG — pure vector paths at 1:1 real millimetres, already mirrored for transfer paper. Tell your artist it is mirrored: flipping it a second time is how lettering ends up backwards for good.
- Preview PNG — a 300 DPI proof.
- Print calibration sheet — a 100 mm line and a 20 mm square. Print it first and measure it. A printer set to "fit to page" quietly shrinks everything, and you cannot tell until it is already on you.

Everything runs in your browser. Your text never leaves the page.