Text tattoo ideas

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Black brush-style lettering design repeating the word HAHA in staggered, overlapping rows, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Haha brush lettering design
Black line drawing of the words OFF WITH HER HEAD arranged in the shape of a playing card club, with a spiral in the top lobe, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Off with her head lettering in a club shape
Pen sketch of a tattoo design on lined paper showing a semicolon above the words INHALE and EXHALE, with two opposing arrows between them.
Inhale and exhale semicolon design sketch
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 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
Black hand-drawn outline of a bow above the handwritten words 'a girl without a bow is not a girl' on a cream background, shown as a flash-style design.
Bow and handwritten quote design
Black script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Cross-shaped script lettering design
Black lotus flower design above the word Namaste and a short verse about honouring others, shown as a black-ink design on a white background.
Lotus with Namaste verse
Black silhouette flash design of two swallows in flight above the words we only part to meet again, in a serif typeface on a white background.
Two swallows above a quote
Black brush lettering design on a white background reading Curiosity did not kill this cat, set in three slanted lines with underlines, shown as a lettering tattoo design.
Curiosity did not kill this cat lettering
Black script lettering reading if you can't live longer, live deeper, with a small aeroplane silhouette below, shown as a tattoo design on a sepia background with no body part visible.
Script quote with small aeroplane design
Nine small white lettering designs in gold and dark brown script, mostly reading just drunk, with one reading drunk in love, arranged on a white surface.
Just drunk lettering designs in gold script
Black ink handwritten script on white paper reading "don't let idiots ruin your day" in three lines, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo.
Handwritten lettering: don't let idiots ruin your day
Black script lettering design on a white background, with Arabic calligraphy above the English words "If it's meant to be, It will be."
Arabic and English quote lettering design
Black ink drawing of a swallow above a speech-bubble shape containing the handwritten quote about desire and fire, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Swallow and quote design on paper
Black script lettering reading My Story Isn't Over, with a large solid black semicolon above and below it, on a plain white background as a lettering tattoo design.
Semicolon with My Story Isn't Over script
Black script lettering reading angel face and devil thoughts on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Angel face and devil thoughts lettering
Hand-drawn flash design of a crosshatched ribbon banner wrapping vertically, with the lettering 'You are what you love not who loves you' in black on a purple background.
Ribbon banner with 'You are what you love' lettering
Black script lettering reading Just Breathe with a full stop, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Just Breathe script lettering design
Fine line lettering design reading WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the I, on a plain white background.
WARR;OR lettering design
Black hand-lettered script reading The struggle is part of the story on a pale pink background, a Lettering design for a tattoo.
Script lettering: The struggle is part of the story
Black handwritten script reading Here comes the sun with a full stop, drawn as a fine line tattoo design on a plain white background.
Here comes the sun handwritten script
Black ink line drawing of a four-line ribbon banner with hand-drawn lettering and hatched shading on the folds, shown as a flash design on textured paper.
Ribbon banner with four lines of lettering
Black monoline lettering on a white background spelling WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the letter I, in a lettering tattoo design.
Spaced lettering reading WARR;OR
Black line drawing of a hand-drawn sun with rays, with the words LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO ARE YOU lettered inside the circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Line drawn sun with lettered quote
Black and grey ink drawing of a giraffe with its neck curled round, with a line of text running down the neck in a lettering design.
Giraffe neck with quote lettering
White cursive lettering reading Stay Strong with a small outlined heart on a black background, a black and grey lettering design.
Stay Strong script lettering with a heart
Black script lettering reading "it is well" with a line over the word "it" on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design.
"it is well" script lettering design
Hand-drawn ink design of a winged sheep across three banners reading A teenage vow in a parking lot, til tonight do us part, with grey shading and brown and yellow wash accents.
Winged sheep with lyric banners
Black and white flash design of a coffin with a central skull, flourishes and a block of lettering on a speckled background, in a lettering style.
Coffin with skull and lettering
Black fine line script lettering reading focus on the good, drawn on a plain white background as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Focus on the good in fine line script
Black line drawing of a razor blade beside hand-lettered text reading "If I were you, I'd put that away" and "Darling, you'll be okay" on a white background.
Razor blade with hand-lettered quote
Several sheets of gold script temporary tattoo designs reading team Bride, arranged on a bright pink background.
Team Bride gold script temporary tattoo sheets
Black flowing script lettering reading it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, drawn on a plain white background in a lettering style.
Script quote lettering design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a ship's wheel enclosing a sailing ship, a flower below, and the words DARLIN IM NOT above and COMIN HOME below.
Ship's wheel and flower sketch with lettering
Black flash design of a bird silhouette in flight beside the script words 'don't just fly... soar', with no body placement shown.
Bird silhouette with 'don't just fly... soar' script
Black line drawing of a cross, a heartbeat line ending in a heart, and the words Faith, Hope and Love in script, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Cross, heartbeat and heart with Faith Hope Love
Black lettering design of a multi-line quote mixing script, typewriter and bold brush fonts, with star marks and swirl flourishes on a white background.
Quote lettering in mixed script fonts
Black ink dotwork drawing of a dagger piercing an open umbrella, with raindrops and the lettering True Friends and Stab you in the front, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Dagger and umbrella with True Friends lettering
Black handwritten script lettering reading The struggle is part of the story on a pale cream background, drawn as a flash design for a tattoo.
Script lettering reading The struggle is part of the story
Black script lettering of the French phrase 'Mon cœur est à toi' set over four lines on a plain white background, shown as a design rather than on skin.
French script quote, 'Mon cœur est à toi'
Black script lettering design reading Doubt me then watch me on a white background, with no body placement shown.
Doubt me then watch me script lettering
Black ink hand-lettered design on a white background reading Thanks for the pain, It made me raise my game, with small decorative dots and curls.
Thanks for the pain lettering design
Hand-drawn grey lettering design reading IF NOT NOW WHEN, with the words stacked and shaded in pencil on paper.
If not now when lettering design
Black script lettering on a white background in a flowing calligraphic style, with a large decorative initial letter, set out as a design for a lettering tattoo.
Calligraphic script quote design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with lilies, curling vine swirls and the words Live Laugh Love in cursive script, in black and grey.
Lily and swirl design with script
Thin black uppercase lettering design reading BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY on a plain white background, shown as a lettering flash with no body placement.
Block lettering quote design
Black and white flash sheet of numbered semicolon designs with the words Your story isn't over yet in varied lettering styles.
Semicolon lettering flash sheet