Tattoo lettering of the name "Chino" in heavy Chicano Old English blackletter, inked in black on cream paper. Diamond-pointed terminals and a long swash tail under the word, with a glossy sheen, grey gradient shading and a faint shadow. Replace the name with your own, or change the ink colour and the paper.

A tattoo lettering reference showing the single word "Chino" in sharp cholo-style Chicano lettering, a blackletter and script hybrid, black and grey only. The word is centred on a clean, flat, warm off-white paper ground and fills about 78% of the canvas width, with wide safe margins on every side. Letterforms: the capital C is large and elaborate, built from heavy vertical strokes with strong thick-to-thin contrast. Its entry stroke sweeps in as a long controlled swash and its upper terminal ends in a sharp spear point. The lowercase h, i, n, o is compact and dark, with diamond and spear-point terminals and crisp angular breaks between strokes. The arches are softly rounded so every letter stays readable at arm's length. The i carries a sharp diamond tittle. The final o closes with a pointed hairline spur that releases into one long, tapered swash tail running under the word. This tail is balanced by the entry swash on the C. Small hairline spurs and fine decorative shading strokes sit on the capital only. Spacing: strokes are heavy but not clogged. Every gap between letters and every counter stays open, about as wide as a stem, so nothing blurs together on skin at calf scale. Hairlines are thin but still tattoo-safe, never feathered. Finish: glossy jet-black sign-painter ink with deep solid blacks and a subtle wet sheen. A faint soft grey drop-shadow and a light grey wash sit inside the thick downstrokes and under the swash, showing where the black and grey shading will go. Even soft studio light. No colour fills, no red or gold accents, no symbols, no dots, no numbers, no extra text, no skin, no body parts, no frame. Clean, high-contrast, easy for an artist to trace into a stencil.