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Capital Letter Tattoos: An Alternative Tattoo Lettering Design by Romeo Rodriguez

Name tattoos are the kings of the tattoo lettering world, but some choose to be more subtle and less in-your-face by just using the initials of their names. Some even just use the first letter. That’s how capital letter tattoos came about. It is now a sub genre of the entire tattoo lettering motif.

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A lone letter as a tattoo design might seem pretty plain on the get-go, but tattoo lettering itself began primarily with the inking the initials of a person or group anyway. The secret to making a capital letter tattoo spectacular is to pull out all the stops in embellishment. The influx of countless new fonts in the English alphabet and the gradual evaporation of language barriers make tattoo lettering, especially capital letter tattoos, all the more interesting and popular.

People can choose tattoo lettering in different fonts and in different languages like Latin, Old English, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, spanish, tribal etc. There are gazillions of flash tattoo lettering designs available to choose from. If you decide on a capital letter tattoo in a foreign language, make sure it is sketched properly. Countercheck with a native speaker or expert to verify your drawing.

Regardless of what font or language you choose for the capital letter tattoo design, it helps to give it a little embellishment. An extra flick of the pen or an added stroke here and there could mean all the difference between a plain and beautiful capital letter tattoo. After all, letters have been elaborated for over a thousand years. That’s what calligraphy is all about, and you would do well to go over the many different calligraphic styles of the language of your choice. The illuminated manuscripts are a marvelous example of the kinds of drawings that can be created with a capital letter as a basis.

A tattoo lettering design can also be decorated with selected images or drawings. The combination of your tattoo lettering design of choice and a picture reflects your style and aesthetic preferences. Supplementing your capital letter tattoo with a drawing can come from either a stock image or from scratch, depending on the look you’re aiming for. The key, however, is to choose images that would match the motif of the tattoo lettering and would be proportional to the size of the tattoo itself. For instance, an Easter dragon design will go with Chinese script tattoos. Japanese character tattoos can go along with a sketch of a koi fish. For Celtic tattoo lettering, the capital letter would look great when framed in intricate Celtic knots.

While embellishing you capital letter tattoo with an image certainly adds oomph to the overall design, it doesn’t have to always be the case like an unwritten rule. You can add life to your capital letter tattoo by the ornate style of the calligraphy used and the color template of the entire design. The bottom line is a tattoo doesn't have to have a picture. Initials can show and mean a lot as well.

Romeo Rodriguez is a tattoo enthusiast and blogger. His website, Tattoo Lettering can be found at http://www.tattooletteringblog.com/

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