A tattoo lettering design reading "Chicago" in glossy black Old English blackletter. The word runs on one line with a swirling-capital C, diamond-dotted i, sharp angular strokes and soft embossed highlights, solid black on an off-white ground. Swap in your own city or name and keep the same blackletter for a classic tattoo stencil.

A tattoo lettering reference sheet showing the single word "Chicago" in Old English blackletter, rendered in solid glossy jet-black ink on a clean, flat, plain off-white paper ground with no texture. The word is centered horizontally and vertically and spans about 82% of the canvas width, with a generous safe margin all around. Nothing else appears on the sheet: no other words, no ornaments, no borders, no symbols. Letterforms: heavy dense vertical strokes with strong thick-thin contrast, broken angular joints and crisp diamond and spear-point terminals. The capital C is large and elaborate, with one or two bold curling spurs and only a few well-spaced hairline accents, all kept thick enough to survive on skin. The lowercase "hicago" is compact and dark but fully readable, each letter recognisable at a glance. The gaps inside the letters, such as the bowls of the h, c, a and g, stay open and clear. The spaces between letters stay wide enough that no strokes touch or merge. The tail of the g is a clean pointed hook that does not collide with neighbouring letters. Finish: deep solid blacks with a subtle wet ink sheen and razor-clean edges, with a very faint soft grey drop shadow beneath the word to lift it off the paper. Even, soft, neutral lighting. Pure black and off-white only, flat and easy for a tattoo artist to trace and stencil.