Script tattoo ideas

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

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Black fine line lettering in a French script runs vertically down the centre of a woman's upper back, above a strappy beige top.
French script down the upper back
Black and white photo of a fine line tattoo on an upper arm, showing a pig outline with the word vegan written in script inside it.
Vegan pig outline on upper arm
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading sisu on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script word 'sisu' near the collarbone
Watercolour-style paw print tattoo in pink, blue and green with black linework and a script name, placed on the ribs.
Paw print with watercolour splashes on ribs
Black and grey rose tattoo on a woman's shoulder, with a small script tattoo on her upper chest near the collarbone.
Black and grey roses on a shoulder
Small black fine line Devanagari script lettering on the inner wrist, photographed against a dark background.
Devanagari script on the inner wrist
Black fine line bird silhouettes and lettering tattoos across a woman's upper back, including the word freedom.
Bird and word tattoos across a back
Realistic eye tattoo with a blue iris on the back of a hand, with grey script lettering above it.
Realistic blue eye tattoo on the hand
Black and grey realism tattoo on a back showing a screaming woman whose hair breaks into flying birds, with handwritten script lyrics beside her and a tribal ornament at the top left.
Screaming woman with birds and handwritten lyrics on back
Traditional style flash sheet of nine tattoo designs with lettering, including a winged banner, a pie, a black car, a flaming coffin and a salt canister, with red sigils scattered between them.
Supernatural themed flash sheet
Black script lettering reading 'She believed she could so she did' with a small flourish and comma, tattooed across the top of a foot.
Script quote across the top of a foot
Black line drawing of the state of Ohio with the word home in cursive script down its left edge and a small red heart inside, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Ohio state outline with home script and heart
Colour tattoo of a blue crescent moon with clouds and yellow stars beside a script quote, on the side of the ribs, in a lettering style.
Crescent moon and quote on the ribs
Silver metallic temporary tattoos of triangles, dots and infinity symbols on a forearm and ankle, with a small black script line above the wrist.
Silver metallic temporary tattoos on arm and ankle
Black line drawing of the word love in script lettering, with a heart before it and an anchor replacing the v, on a white background.
Script love with heart and anchor
Fine line botanical tattoo of a pink flower with a black script word trailing from its stem, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Pink flower and script on collarbone
Black brush-lettered word SEEK followed by three dots on a plain white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Seek in brush lettering
Black fine line tattoo of a giraffe whose neck and body are formed by the words Stand Tall in script, shown in a black and white photo of skin.
Giraffe outline with Stand Tall lettering
Black lettering tattoo reading Breathe, with decorative flourishes, on the inner wrist.
Breathe script on a wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo of two outline roses with cursive script across a woman's shoulder and upper chest.
Outline roses and script on a shoulder
Red line drawing of a heart with a sprig of three flowers and a black script quote beneath, a flash design with no visible body placement.
Heart with flower sprig and script quote
Colour tattoo of a swallow among pink cherry blossom branches with the word Nanny in black script, shown in two close photos on a leg.
Swallow and cherry blossom with script on a leg
Small black and grey fine line swallow in flight with the words stand by me beside it on a forearm.
Swallow and stand by me on a forearm
Handwritten black ink script on white paper reading I exist as I am, that is enough, with an attribution beneath, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Handwritten quote in script
Black fine line infinity symbol tattoo with the words love and life in script on a forearm, while a hand wearing rings grips the arm.
Infinity symbol with love and life script
Black script lettering reading "and in the end we will always have each other" across three lines on the side of the ribs.
Handwritten script quote on the side ribs
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading Love on the upper arm, with a white lace top in the background.
Love script tattoo on an upper arm
Black script lettering reading Faith, Strength and Trust on the upper back near the shoulder blade, with the crossbars of the T and t drawn as crosses.
Faith, strength and trust script on upper back
Shaded grey basketball and sneaker tattoo with a green butterfly and script reading Rookie #45, placed on the upper back.
Basketball, sneaker and butterfly on the back
Black ink dreamcatcher with three hanging feathers and small script around the hoop, on the inner forearm above a woven wrist band.
Dreamcatcher with feathers on the forearm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo of a three line quote on the ribs, with a hand resting above it.
Script quote along the ribs
Black and grey tattoos on a seated woman's arm and thigh, including a shaded rose and script on the upper arm and a larger ornamental design on the thigh.
Rose, script and ornamental thigh tattoos
Pencil drawing of flourished script lettering reading Generic Life Advice You've Heard Before, sketched on grid paper beside a black brush pen.
Script lettering design on grid paper
A flash sheet of twelve numbered handwritten script designs spelling the word fearless, in black ink on white, with no body placement shown.
Fearless word designs in script, twelve variations
Fine line black script reading Saved by Grace with a small cross tattooed on the inside of a forearm.
Saved by Grace script and cross on forearm
Fine black and grey script reading and they lived happily ever after, with faded butterflies and swirls, on the back of a woman's neck.
Happily ever after script on the neck
Two matching solid black cat silhouette tattoos with heart-shaped tails and script words Mother and Daughter on a pair of forearms.
Matching cat silhouette tattoos for mother and daughter
Black and grey photo of a fine black lotus flower tattoo above a vertical script design along the side of a person's ribs.
Lotus and vertical script on the ribs
Black and grey tattoo of a bare tree with two child silhouettes on a swing, above script lettering, on a forearm.
Tree and swing with names on a forearm
Fine line white ink script lettering reading Let It Be on the inner wrist, shown in a close-up photograph.
White script lettering reading Let It Be on a wrist
Fine line black script tattoo reading don't let your fears win along the inner upper arm.
Script quote on upper arm
Black and grey photo of a woman with fine line script lettering on her inner forearm and a dotted constellation tattoo on her ribs below the bust.
Script forearm tattoo and dotted constellation
Black and white photo of two people embracing, each with a fine line script word joy tattooed on the forearm.
Matching joy script tattoos on two forearms
Flash-style design of a black cat with yellow eyes, framed by pink roses and green leaves, with a banner reading Wednesday beneath it.
Black cat with roses and Wednesday banner
Black script lettering reading family on the side of a finger, Lettering style, placed on the hand.
Family script lettering on a finger
Black ink hand-lettered script with flourished swashes reading "Shit's totally fucked, let's eat pizza", with a small pizza slice drawn below, sketched in a notebook.
Hand-lettered script with pizza slice sketch
Colour tattoo of a stylised woman with flowing hair, the word Virgo and flower motifs on the forearm.
Virgo zodiac figure and flowers on forearm
Black line drawing of an eye above stacked chevron arrows, with the handwritten quote 'My eyes are open to the path I am on' beneath it.
Eye above stacked chevrons with quote