A tattoo lettering design reading "Est. 1987" in glossy black Old English blackletter. The abbreviation and year run on one line with an ornate capital E, spurred numerals and sharp angular strokes with soft embossed highlights on a cream ground. Swap in your own founding year or date and keep the same blackletter for a classic tattoo stencil.

A tattoo lettering reference sheet: the text "Est. 1987" in Old English blackletter, set on one single horizontal line, centred on a flat smooth cream paper ground. The lettering fills about 80% of the canvas width with a clear safe margin all round. Letterforms: heavy dense vertical strokes with strong thick-to-thin contrast, crisp diamond and spear-point terminals, sharp angular breaks, and softly rounded arches. The capital E is larger and carries a single clean spur. Lowercase "st" is compact and dark. The period after "Est" is a solid diamond dot. The numerals 1987 are blackletter-style with matching weight, each digit clearly recognisable. Every counter and every gap between letters is kept open and wide enough to survive as a tattoo on skin, with no hairline thinner than a medium line, no touching letters and no fussy shading. Finish: solid glossy jet-black ink with sign-painter precision, razor-clean edges and a very faint soft grey shadow beneath the letters. Nothing else on the sheet: no border, no symbols, no extra words, no ornaments. Pure black on cream, flat, sharp and easy to trace.