Script tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey fine line compass rose tattoo with a small script word above it on the upper arm, photographed in black and white.
Compass rose with script on an upper arm
Fine line script design reading carpe diem, drawn with one continuous black line that extends to both sides, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Carpe diem script line design
Colour tattoo on the back of a witch hat, black script reading Defy Gravity, and a wand ending in a yellow star, with scattered black stars.
Defy Gravity script with witch hat and wand
Black ink hand-lettered word beautiful in flowing script on white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Beautiful in flowing hand lettering
Black ink design of the word Believe in flowing script lettering, framed by swirling flourishes on a white background, shown as a flash design without a body placement.
Believe script lettering with flourishes
A woman in teal leggings balances upside down on a sandy beach, with a small dark script tattoo on her upper arm.
Yoga pose on a beach with an upper arm tattoo
Black script lettering reading live without regrets, with a swirled flourish beneath, across the upper back.
Live without regrets script across upper back
Close-up photograph of thin black fine line Greek lettering reading φαμιλψ on skin, with the placement on the body not clear from the image.
Greek lettering tattoo on skin
Fine line script tattoo reading Believe, with a teal ribbon in place of the letters li, on a person's upper back near the shoulder.
Believe script with teal ribbon on shoulder
Two raised thumbs show matching small black script tattoos on the inside wrists, with a drink on a dark table behind.
Matching script tattoos on two wrists
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading amor vincit omnia in cursive script along the ribs, with a hand wearing a ring resting above it.
Amor vincit omnia script on the ribs
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a pocket watch, a swallow, a flower and a banner with script lettering, in a traditional style.
Pocket watch, swallow and banner sketch
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading life doesn't stop for anybody across the inner forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
Black single-line fine line script lettering spelling the word dream on a plain white background, shown as a design with no body placement visible.
Single-line script word reading dream
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading You'll be in my heart always, across the upper chest near the shoulder.
Script quote on upper chest
Black line drawing of a heartbeat trace with fine script lettering along its length, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Heartbeat line with script wording
Woman seen from behind with a thin fine line script tattoo running vertically down the centre of her back.
Script line tattoo down the spine
Small black Chinese characters tattooed in a vertical column between the shoulder blades on a woman's upper back, in a lettering style.
Vertical Chinese characters across upper back
Colour tattoo on a forearm of a princess silhouette in an ornate grey frame, topped by a blue carriage and a heart, with a pink bow below and the script words Once upon a dream above.
Silhouette in ornate frame on a forearm
Fine line black script word inside an outlined heart with an arrow, tattooed on an ankle, with a matching tattoo on a second ankle beside it.
Matching heart and arrow script ankle tattoos
Fine line black tattoo of an arrow with the French script words Vous etes belle along its shaft, on the top of a foot.
Vous etes belle arrow on the foot
Black fine line feather tattoo joined to an infinity symbol with script lettering on the side of a finger.
Feather and infinity script on a finger
Handwritten script lettering reading I'll love you 'til the end in black ink on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Handwritten I'll love you 'til the end lettering
Black fine line script tattoo reading Smile with a swirling flourish on the inside of a wrist, viewed from the palm side of a hand.
Smile script tattoo on a wrist
Black fine line script reading keep going, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone, shown in a black and white photograph.
Keep going script on the chest
Fine line black infinity symbol on a forearm, with the script words hakuna matata written inside the loop.
Infinity symbol with script wording on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a blue TARDIS police box with lit yellow windows, with the script word allons-y beneath it, on the outer calf.
TARDIS tattoo with allons-y script on a calf
Black ink lettering design reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with three bats flying above the words on a white background.
Too weird to live, too rare to die lettering with bats
Fine line infinity symbol tattoo on the top of a foot, with the words Faith, Love and Hope, a grey feather and small red hearts.
Infinity tattoo with Faith, Love and Hope on a foot
Black script lettering reading "When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you" beside a column of footprint outlines, a fine line lettering tattoo on the side of the body.
Footprints and script quote on skin
Black and grey photo of the word Angel in script on one inner wrist and Devil with a tail flourish on the other, both in a lettering style.
Angel and devil wrist lettering
Black script lettering on a forearm reading Blood Makes You Related and Loyalty Makes You Family, against a dark table with a white star.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and white photo of the word choice in fine line script lettering on the forearm, near a woven bracelet.
Script word choice on the forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a shaded feather with script lettering and a flock of birds, on the side of the ribs.
Feather with birds and script on the ribs
Black and grey tattoo of a winged fairy beside the word Believe in script with swirls and a star, on the skin of the back.
Fairy and Believe script on the back
Black script tattoo reading To live is to love along the outer side of a bare foot, with coral painted toenails against a pale wall.
Script quote tattoo on a foot
Two bare feet, each with a matching black cursive lettering tattoo arranged in a heart outline across the top of the foot.
Matching heart lettering tattoos on two feet
Realistic fine line humpback whale tattoo in grey ink on the side of a torso, with the words Pro memoria written above it.
Humpback whale with script on the ribs
Black compass rose tattoo with a dotted ring and script reading "The horizon is my home" on the upper back.
Compass rose with "The horizon is my home" on upper back
Two colour tattoos in a neo-trad style: a sugar skull portrait with blue hair on the calf and a sugar skull portrait with flaming red hair on the forearm, with script lettering below.
Sugar skull portraits on calf and forearm
Fine line black tattoo of an outlined heart with the word love inside and little sister written along its lower right edge, on the top of a foot.
Heart with love and little sister script on foot
Dark script lettering reading through every dark night, there is a brighter day, tattooed across the upper chest in a black lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black script lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of a woman's back, photographed from behind in an open-back dress.
Script lettering down the spine
Hand-drawn black lettering design in a sketchbook reading 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now and this bird you cannot change, with decorative letterforms and shading.
Lettering design with a bird lyric
Dark blue-black silhouettes of birds in flight rise across the upper back toward the shoulder, with the script words Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly beneath them.
Flock of birds and script quote on upper back
Close photograph of a fine line script tattoo reading Let It Be in white ink on the inner forearm, set against a leopard print background.
Let It Be script on the inner forearm
Black and grey photo of a fine line script tattoo reading love on a wrist.
Love script on the wrist
Black script lettering reading Wanderlust across the top of a bare foot, with dark jeans visible at the sides of the frame.
Wanderlust script on the top of a foot