A tattoo lettering design reading "IV - XXVII - MMXVI", a date in thin black Roman numerals joined by hyphens. The open serif capitals sit on one line with light, even strokes and soft thick-thin contrast on plain white. Swap in your own date as Roman numerals and keep the airy serif for a delicate tattoo stencil.

A tattoo lettering reference, drawn as one single horizontal line of text on a flat pure white background, with no skin, body, shadow, texture or decoration. The text reads exactly: "IV - XXVII - MMXVI". Three Roman numeral groups, IV then XXVII then MMXVI, are separated by two short horizontal dashes with a clear gap on each side. Do not add any other character, dot or word. The lettering is a fine line serif in solid black ink with an even, consistent stroke weight, as a thin clean pen line. The letterforms are classic Roman capitals: upright, evenly proportioned, with short, simple, lightly bracketed serifs, only slight thick-thin contrast and wide open counters. Letters are spaced generously so no two serifs touch, and every gap stays open enough to survive as a tattoo. The two dashes are the same weight as the letter strokes, centred on the letter midline, and about one letter-stem wide in length. The line of text is centred and spans about 88% of the canvas width and about 22% of its height, with wide empty margins above and below. The edges are crisp, smooth vector-clean black strokes. It is flat and matte, with no gradients, no shading, no glow and no colour, in the manner of a stencil an artist can trace.