Tattoo ideas

Key Tattoo Designs

8 original key designs, drawn in-house. Place any of them on a photo of your own skin.

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This set of 8 key designs, by the numbers

Styles represented
gothic (2), illustrative (2), cybersigilism (1), stick and poke (1), dotwork (1), neo traditional (1)
Black-and-grey vs colour
88% black-and-grey, 13% colour
Most often drawn with
raven, bird

Counted from the 8 designs shown on this page. Every one was drawn for InkCraft — none are scraped or reposted. Free to reference with a link to this page.

What a key tattoo can mean

The meanings this motif carries on the pages that argue them. Each line is that page's own reason for including it.

Couples tattoos
The key-and-lock pair is the most literal version of a couples tattoo, and the most dependent on the other person. Worth choosing with that understood.

See it on your skin before you commit

InkCraft places any of these designs on a photo of you — scaled, wrapped and shaded to the placement you pick.

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