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

Black and grey cybersigilism key tattoo design Try it on — Black and grey cybersigilism key tattoo design
Black and grey gothic key tattoo design: a prominent keyhole in the center Try it on — Black and grey gothic key tattoo design: a prominent keyhole in the center
Black and grey gothic key tattoo design Try it on — Black and grey gothic key tattoo design
Black and grey stick and poke key tattoo design Try it on — Black and grey stick and poke key tattoo design
Black and grey dotwork key and raven tattoo design Try it on — Black and grey dotwork key and raven tattoo design
Black and grey illustrative key and raven tattoo design Try it on — Black and grey illustrative key and raven tattoo design
Color neo traditional key and raven tattoo design Try it on — Color neo traditional key and raven tattoo design
Black and white illustrative key and raven tattoo design Try it on — Black and white illustrative key and raven tattoo design
Tap any design to see it on your own skin in the try-on — no signup.
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.