Script tattoo ideas

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

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Black ink script letter S with large curling swirls at top and bottom, drawn as a bold single-line design on a white background.
Flowing script letter S design
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with the words Not all those who wander are lost curved around it on bare skin.
Compass rose with a curved quote
Two photographs: black script reading hakuna matata with small birds on a foot, and a black mermaid silhouette with small fish on a wrist.
Script and birds on a foot, mermaid on a wrist
Two people seen from behind: one has the word DUDE in black lettering on the upper back, the other has sweet in black script above a colour lily tattoo on the shoulder blade.
Dude and sweet lettering with a lily on two backs
Colour tattoo design of purple wings framing a red rose and gold key, with ornate gold filigree and two scrolls bearing script, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Winged rose and key scroll design
Traditional style tattoo on the inner forearm showing mountains, birds, a red flower and leaves, with the words home is where the heart is.
Mountain scene with quote on forearm
Colour tattoo of Dory the blue tang fish beside blue script reading Just Keep Swimming, across the sole and side of a foot.
Dory and Just Keep Swimming on a foot
Black lettering tattoo of song lyrics wrapping around the ribs on a side view, with a small bird silhouette in the middle of the text.
Song lyrics tattoo curving across the ribs
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading always across the side of a finger.
Always script on a finger
Two small tattoos: a red and white rocket with the words and beyond in black script on the ribs, and a cowboy hat with the words to infinity in blue script on the thigh.
Rocket and cowboy hat tattoos with quotes
Collage of matching small tattoos on fingers and wrists, including hearts, crowns and script lettering reading Always and Forever, in black and red ink.
Matching couple tattoos on fingers and wrists
Black flash design of an infinity symbol made of paw prints and birds, with hakuna matata written in script lettering.
Infinity paw print design with hakuna matata script
Black line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word eternal in looping script at the upper left and love at the lower right, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Infinity symbol with eternal and love script
Black and white flash sheet of song lyric lettering designs with small icons such as a heart, planet, wings and arrow, in mixed script and block fonts.
Lyric lettering flash sheet in black
Three stacked photos of a flourished script name tattoo in lettering style on the forearm, from red outline to finished black linework.
Script name lettering on a forearm
Black and grey script tattoo of the words If our love could have saved you, you would have lived forever, framed by shaded angel wings and a halo on the upper back.
Angel wings and script quote on upper back
Black script tattoo reading i am because you are running diagonally along the inner forearm, in a lettering style.
Script quote on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of two small footprints above the script words you are my sunshine, on the top of a woman's foot.
Footprints and script lettering on a foot
Black and grey photo of two heels on a stone ledge, with the word Free in black script on the left heel and Yourself in black script on the right heel.
Free and Yourself script on both heels
Black fine line script reading Let it go with four small flying birds on the outer ankle and foot.
Let it go script and birds on the ankle
Black script tattoo reading Geronimo with a small bow beneath it, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Geronimo script with a bow on the upper chest
Black and white photo of a bare foot with fine line script lettering reading never stop dancing across the top.
Never stop dancing script on a foot
Collage of four fine line infinity tattoos: faith script on a wrist, a quote on an inner wrist, a feather with script on a forearm, and a heart infinity on an ankle.
Infinity tattoos with script, feather and heart
Sepia drawing of a swallow in flight beside cursive script reading and in time, this too shall pass.
Swallow in flight with cursive quote
Abstract geometric tattoo on a lower leg in yellow, orange and blue-grey, with a halftone face, a circular silhouette and green splatter.
Geometric shapes and silhouette on a calf
Colour tattoo of an ornate hot air balloon with a black script word reading freedom on the thigh, in a traditional style.
Hot air balloon and freedom script on thigh
Black script tattoo reading "It only takes a little push to pull on through" beside a small outlined heart with an eye, on the upper arm.
Heart and eye with script quote on an arm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back, with a small crescent moon below, on the inner forearm.
Moon and back quote with crescent moon on forearm
Collage of black script lettering tattoos on forearms, wrists, hands and ankles, including the phrases You and me and Times infinity.
Script quote tattoos on forearms, hands and ankles
Two matching black fine line tattoos of the word soulsister, one on a forearm and one on the upper back, each with small arrow-like ends.
Matching soulsister script on forearm and back
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading "If you can dream it, you can do it" on the side of the ribs, with a hand and ring visible above.
Black script quote on the side ribs
Hand-drawn flash design of the words Be thankful in script, with leafy vines, a bare branch with acorns and the text Colossians 3:15, drawn in black line with pale yellow and pink accents.
Be thankful lettering with vines and branch
Six black ink handwritten versions of the word hazel stacked vertically on white, varying from bold brush strokes to thin flowing lines, shown as lettering design options with no body placement.
Hazel in six handwritten script styles
Three photographs of a black vertical column of script-like glyphs tattooed from the shoulder down the back and along the calf and ankle.
Vertical script tattoo down shoulder, back and leg
Close up of a fine line black script tattoo reading With pain comes strength along the ribs of a person wearing a grey sports bra.
Script quote reading With pain comes strength on ribs
Black and grey upper arm tattoo of a handwritten script verse framed around a pale moon, a dark spiral hill and small star sparkles.
Script verse with spiral hill and moon
Forearm tattoo of a feather with a quill nib, watercolour splashes in blue, green, pink and purple, and the word Believe in script beneath.
Watercolour feather and Believe on forearm
Black lettering tattoo on a forearm reading Beauty in flowing script with a flourish above, and BEAST in vertical blackletter capitals below.
Beauty and beast lettering on a forearm
Black script design reading Love, with a silhouette of an airplane in place of the o and a small heart after the e, on a plain white background.
Love script with airplane and heart
Black and grey owl tattoo with a pentagram on the head, wings and scrollwork across the shoulder and upper arm, with script lettering on the chest.
Owl and pentagram shoulder and arm piece
Black fine line script reading Believe with a small outlined heart on the inner wrist of a hand with blue nails.
Believe script with heart on wrist
Black fine line script tattoo reading omnia mutantur nihil interit across the inner forearm.
Latin script quote on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, in fine line lettering on the wrist, with beaded bracelets worn below it.
Script quote tattoo on the wrist
Small fine-line black script reading satis, with an arrow running through the letters, on the inner wrist.
Satis script with arrow on wrist
Black and grey pencil flash design of a money tree with banknotes falling from its branches, two devil figures and the words Money the root of all evil.
Money tree sketch with devil figures
Colour tattoo of a blue awareness ribbon looped with a black fish hook forming a heart, with the word Daddy in script, on the wrist.
Blue ribbon and fish hook heart on wrist
Black script lettering reading Live on a forearm, with a blue semicolon in place of the i dot and a small red heart after the e.
Live script with semicolon on a forearm
Black ink calligraphic script in a Tengwar-style alphabet, with grey shaded vine flourishes, drawn as a tattoo design on a pale background.
Tengwar-style script with vine flourish