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Every great tattoo starts with a style, and every style has its own history, its own techniques and its own artists. Browse the 45 styles on YokoFolio, from fine line to Japanese, and find out what makes each one unique. Once you’ve found your style, discover the tattoo artists, shops and studios who work in it near you.

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Abstract
Abstract tattooing leaves the subject behind: shapes, strokes, color fields and splatters, composed for a body in motion.
American Traditional
American Traditional is classic Western tattooing: a heavy black outline, a few flat colors, and swallows, anchors and roses.
Anime & Pop Culture
Anime & Pop Culture is a subject: characters from anime, manga, games, comics and film, drawn true to the source or in another style.
Berber
The Berber, or Amazigh, tattoo sets small geometric signs on the face, hands and ankles, speaking of protection, life stages and belonging.
Bio-organic
Bio-organic keeps Biomechanical's opened skin and swaps steel for flesh: muscle, sinew, cartilage and articulated bone.
Biomechanical
Biomechanical shows machinery under the flesh: pistons, cables and plates that seem to work beneath an opened skin.
Blackwork
Blackwork is built on solid black: heavy fills, bold shapes and blackout areas, with bare skin as the only other color.
Celtic
Celtic comes from Irish and Scottish insular art: endless interlace, woven knots, spirals and animals drawn out into ribbons.
Chicano
Chicano is Mexican-American tattooing in soft black and grey: portraits, script lettering, and stories of family, faith and loyalty.
Chrome
Chrome imitates polished metal: mirror surfaces, horizon highlights and liquid curves, made entirely out of values.
Coptic
Coptic tattooing is the small cross on the wrist of Egypt's Christians: a mark of belonging handed down for generations, not an ornament.
Cyber-tribal
Cyber-tribal turns tribal's solid black into sharp, symmetrical blades with a futuristic Y2K feel and vector-clean edges.
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk tattoos a whole world: neon, circuitry, prosthetics, glitches and rain-soaked cities, in a cold, saturated palette.
Cybersigilism
Cybersigilism pulls tribal toward the sign: thin black lines that branch and taper into thorns, in webs that follow the body.
Dark Art
Dark Art tattoos take on horror, the occult and the macabre, in any rendering, from gothic engravings to photorealistic nightmares.
Dotwork
Dotwork builds tone and shape out of dots, dense for shadow and sparse for light, with a visible grain instead of smooth grey.
Engraving
Engraving tattoos look like an old etching or woodcut: parallel and cross-hatching, with volume built from the density of the line.
Fine Line
Fine Line rests on thin, even single-needle lines, light shading at most and plenty of bare skin, with no black mass to hide a slip.
Geometric
Geometric tattooing composes with circles, polygons, patterns and symmetry, drawn with a precision that forgives nothing.
Ignorant Style
Ignorant Style is naive on purpose: a clumsy, uneven line, wrong proportions and an absurd or funny subject, usually small and black.
Illustrative
Illustrative tattooing owns the fact that it's a drawing: outlines of varying weight plus shading, like a page from an illustrated book.
Japanese
Japanese tattooing dresses the body by strict codes: dragons, koi and hannya masks in bold outline, framed by wind, waves and clouds.
Lettering
Lettering makes the text the tattoo: names, dates and quotes in gothic, script or block letters, usually drawn by hand rather than typed.
Māori
Tā moko is the tattooing of the Māori of New Zealand: koru spirals and flowing black bands that speak of one person's lineage.
Minimalist
Minimalist tattooing is defined by what it leaves out: a small shape cut to essentials, simple lines and composed empty space around it.
Neo-Japanese
Neo-Japanese frees dragons, koi and hannya masks from the old rules: varied lines, vivid modern color, little or no background.
Neo-realism
Neo-realism keeps Realism's modeling and stylizes around it: boosted color, painterly strokes, bold outlines, graphic backgrounds.
Neo-Traditional
Neo-Traditional keeps the bold outline of American Traditional and adds varied line weight, volume, ornament and a richer palette.
New School
New School is cartoon tattooing pushed past the limit: fluorescent color, forced perspective, 3D relief and characters full of motion.
Nordic
Nordic draws on Viking art: interlaced stretched animals, knots, runes and figures from Norse mythology.
One Line
One Line draws the whole design in a single continuous stroke that never lifts, without shading: the crossings are part of the drawing.
Organic
Organic grows natural forms over the body: roots, coral, cells and scales that branch freely, with no machinery and no anchor point.
Ornamental
Ornamental tattooing borrows from jewelry, lace and filigree: it tells no story, it adorns, and it follows the line of the body.
Patutiki
Patutiki is Marquesan tattooing: the body divided into named panels, filled with dense black figures, tiki faces and crosses.
Polynesian
Polynesian tatau works in solid black bands of named motifs — teeth, spearheads, waves — where placement counts as much as the drawing.
Realism
Realism renders a subject as a photograph would: smooth gradients, true light and texture, and no outline to give the drawing away.
Sak Yant
Sak Yant is the sacred tattoo of Thailand: Khom script, geometric yantras and protective animals, traditionally tapped by hand and blessed.
Sicanje
Sicanje is the hand-poked tattoo of Bosnian and Croatian Catholics: crosses, sun circles and dots on the hands, worn mostly by women.
Sketch
Sketch tattoos look like a pencil or charcoal drawing on skin: loose strokes, visible construction lines, unfinished edges and hatching.
Suminagashi
Suminagashi carries Japanese floating-ink marbling onto skin: warped rings and veins, a movement of water tattooed.
Surrealism
Surrealism tattoos turn dreams into images: melting forms, impossible scenes and double exposures, often rendered realistically.
Trash Polka
Trash Polka uses nothing but black and red: fragments of photorealism, lettering, and the raw red gesture that tears them up.
Tribal
Tribal is bold solid black in curved or angular shapes, from 1990s Western tribal to designs from Borneo, Haida and Aztec art.
Watercolor
Watercolor tattoos look painted: translucent washes, runs and splashes of color, often with no outline to hold them in.
Yoruba
Yoruba tattooing draws on adire cloth, Gelede masks, orisha symbols and the lines of facial marks, carried from relief into ink.

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