Script tattoo ideas

6,821 photos and flash · 82% Lettering, 40% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Fine line handwritten script reading palm trees, ocean breeze, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Palm trees, ocean breeze script
Eight numbered sheets of gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs, featuring Greek letters, geometric patterns, anchors and chevrons.
Gold metallic Greek letter temporary tattoo sheets
Black and grey tattoo of two footprints beside ornate script lettering with flourishes on a forearm.
Footprints and script lettering on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a feather joined to an infinity symbol with script lettering on a section of bare skin.
Feather and infinity script tattoo
Woman in a lace bra and open plaid shirt, showing a traditional-style rose and bird tattoo on her ribs, script lettering on her upper chest, and a rose and portrait design on her thigh.
Rose and bird tattoos on torso and thigh
Black and grey fine line script reading ad maiora on the inner wrist, with the hand raised above it.
Ad maiora script on a wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a feather with small birds and the script words free yourself on a person's upper back.
Free yourself script and feather on upper back
Black ink hand-lettered design reading 'A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor' on aged, sepia paper, with decorative flourishes above the text.
Hand-lettered sailing quote on aged paper
Black fine line script tattoo reading Unbreakable on the inner forearm, shown in a black and white photo.
Unbreakable script on a forearm
Black and grey shaded butterfly tattoo on the upper back, with a handwritten quote in black script reading I'm a walking travesty but I'm smiling at everything.
Butterfly and handwritten quote on upper back
Close-up of a watercolour-style orange tulip with a black script word and stem tattooed on the inner ankle.
Orange tulip and script on an ankle
Pen sketch of a tattoo design, an infinity symbol filled with looping cursive lettering and two small hearts, drawn on lined notebook paper.
Infinity symbol with script lettering
Two matching fine line black script tattoos reading sisters with a small heart, one on a lower leg and one on an ankle.
Matching sisters script tattoos
Two feet side by side, each with the phrase 'An unbreakable bond' in black cursive script across the top of the foot, one matching tattoo per person.
Matching 'An unbreakable bond' script on two feet
Black and grey script lettering reading Each day is a gift not a given right across the upper back, shown from behind with blonde hair and a knitted scarf.
Script quote across upper back
Black ink hand-lettered word laugh joined to a heartbeat line and an open heart outline, drawn on a planner page.
Laugh script with heartbeat line and heart
Black handwritten script lettering on the inner forearm of a person, with a brush touching the skin near the start of the line.
Script quote on a forearm
Colour tattoo on an ankle showing two smiling cartoon characters holding hands in front of a yellow starburst, with script reading friends by chance and sisters by choice.
Friends by chance, sisters by choice lettering
Two matching fine line tattoos on the inner wrists, each showing the word Always, a triangle, circle and vertical line symbol, and small stars.
Matching Always and Deathly Hallows wrist tattoos
Black line tattoo of the words How strange it is to be anything at all inside a looping scroll frame, shown on an arm.
Quote in a swirl frame on an arm
Colour tattoo of a butterfly with puzzle-piece patterned wings and black script reading I Will Fight above and Your Fight below, on skin.
Puzzle-piece butterfly with script lettering
Close photo of a thin black fine line script tattoo reading without struggle there is no progress, sitting on the side of the torso near a dark waistband.
Handwritten quote tattoo on the side torso
Black script lettering tattoo across a woman's upper back and shoulder blade, with a long braid falling over her left shoulder.
Script quote tattoo across upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a face with an open mouth on a calf, with the script words Run n tell that above and Homeboy below.
Portrait and script on a lower leg
Black fine line script tattoo reading We shall never part, running diagonally across a shoulder and upper back, shown in two close-up photographs.
We shall never part script on shoulder
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading love fearlessly on a woman's shoulder near the collarbone.
Love fearlessly script on a shoulder
Fingers on a hand with black lettering reading 'me about my tattoo' in script, plus a small teal diamond tattoo, with white and glitter nail polish.
Finger script phrase and diamond on hand
Black script tattoo reading Follow your dreams with small birds beside the word dreams, on the top of a foot above a black high-heeled shoe.
Follow your dreams script with birds on foot
Black script lettering reading Bitch tattooed on the inside of a lower lip, with a teal painted fingernail holding the lip open.
Script word tattoo inside lower lip
Black ink tattoo of the word Ohana in script with a hibiscus flower and swirling linework on a forearm, set against a mandala patterned background.
Ohana script and hibiscus on a forearm
Black ink brush lettering of the verse perhaps you were born for such a time as this, with a line drawn crown above and a sceptre below, in a lettering style.
Hand-lettered verse with crown and sceptre
Woman seen from behind with a black lettering tattoo in Gurmukhi script across her upper back, between the shoulder blades.
Gurmukhi script across upper back
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line rhyming poem across the upper back, close to the shoulder blade.
Four-line poem script on upper back
Black ink drawing of a flourished script letter K with swirling curls and a small letter N below, shown as a tattoo design on a pale background.
Flourished script letter K design
Black blossom branch tattoo with the script 'until we meet again' on the side of the ribs, with a small pink lip mark below.
Blossom branch and 'until we meet again' on ribs
Black ink sketch of a tree above the handwritten words I climbed the tree to see the world on a forearm.
Tree and quote on the inner forearm
Black script lettering reading je t'aime with long looping flourishes, shown as a flash design on a white background, with no placement on the body visible.
Je t'aime script lettering design
Collage of five black tattoos in fine line and lettering, including a quote on the ribs, the number 9 3/4 on a wrist, a cat on the hip and a face on the forearm.
Five small black tattoos: quotes, a cat and a face
Black ink compass rose with N, E, S and W points above the words Explore, Dream and Discover in script on a forearm.
Compass rose and lettering on a forearm
Black and grey botanical tattoos with an arrow and script lettering on a woman's upper arm and forearm, in a photo where she wears a white dreamcatcher-print t-shirt.
Floral and leaf tattoos on upper arm and forearm
Black fine line script reading 'i am enough' with an arrow below it, its fletching shaded in teal and lavender, on a person's thigh.
Script 'i am enough' with arrow on thigh
Black fine line script tattoo on the side of the ribs reading two lines of text, Live without the sunlight and Love without your heartbeat.
Script quote along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of a Van Gogh quote set in a simple hand-drawn typeface, running down the shin or calf.
Van Gogh quote on a lower leg
Black script lettering reading Pain is inevitable suffering is optional, with fine flourishes, across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote on upper back
Black fine line outline of a lion cub with the script words Remember who you are beneath it, tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Lion cub outline and script quote on a wrist
Two matching forearm tattoos: a red winged heart with script text on the left, and a red and grey anchor with a rope coil and script text on the right.
Matching heart and anchor quote tattoos on forearms
Three wrists with gold metallic script temporary tattoos reading bride and the maids, with a partly visible word on the left, against a blurred beach background.
Gold foil temporary tattoos reading bride and the maids
Woman seen from behind with a fine line black script tattoo running down her upper back between the shoulder blades.
Fine line script tattoo across the upper back