Text tattoo ideas

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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 ink line drawing of a skull with botanical foliage, a bee in an oval frame and the words Taurus and let none be the noose, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Skull, foliage and bee Taurus flash design
Red line drawing of a skull with an eyepatch and crossed blades, dripping blood, above the words If you dare hurt my friends, I won't forgive you.
Skull with eyepatch and crossed blades
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
Black ink line drawing of a pair of lips showing teeth, with GRRL POWER written across the lower lip above a clenched fist, in a hand-drawn style.
Lips and fist with GRRL POWER text
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
Blue and green scrolling floral butterfly design with a dark brown quotation beneath it, reading let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, Psalm 90:17.
Scrollwork butterfly with Psalm 90:17 quote
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
Pencil drawing of a compass rose with a ring of lettering reading before you ask which way to go and remember where you have been, shown on graph paper.
Compass rose with lettered ring
Black and grey stippled drawing of an anchor wrapped in two banners reading Reckless and Brave, held up on a white card in a hand.
Anchor with Reckless and Brave banners
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 tribal-style scorpion tattoo design on a white background, with a bold printed quote beneath it.
Tribal scorpion design with quote
Pencil sketch of the Hogwarts castle above the words Hogwarts is my home in decorative lettering, a flash-style design with no body placement shown.
Hogwarts castle with lettering design
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 line drawing flash design of a skull with dollar-sign eyes and the words Eyes Only For You set in a circle around it, shown on a plain white background with no body placement.
Skull with dollar eyes and circular lettering
Black and grey pencil sketch of a raised hand with a ribbon banner wrapped around the wrist reading Do not open before Christmas, with music notes, shown as a tattoo design on the forearm.
Raised hand with ribbon banner on wrist
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
Black silhouette tattoo design of three swallows in flight above the words MATTHEW 6:26 on a white background.
Three swallows and Matthew 6:26
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
Black lettering design showing the words True Love above the Chinese characters for true love, with the pronunciation jen ai written below.
True love in Chinese characters
Flash sheet of black crescent moon tattoo designs, some with stars, swirls, sparkles, a face and the words Blue Moon, in black and grey ink.
Crescent moon tattoo flash sheet
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
Realistic drawing of a howling wolf head in profile, shaded in browns, oranges and black, with mirrored handwritten text above it.
Howling wolf head in profile
Drawn koi fish tattoo design in a Japanese style, with black scales, orange-gold fins and a red gill, beside the headline The Meaning Behind Koi Fish Tattoos.
Koi fish tattoo design with headline
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
Black and white lettering design of a crescent moon with a seated silhouette figure, the script words set within the moon's black shape.
Crescent moon with seated figure and script
Black and grey line drawing of three ornate sugar skulls with floral patterns, above and below a handwritten quotation, in the style of tattoo flash.
Three floral sugar skulls with handwritten quote
Black and white line drawing of a twenty-sided dice showing a 1 on its top face, with the word crap written beneath it and a dark smudge at its base.
D20 dice showing a one with the word crap
Black fine line drawing of a large dahlia-style bloom inside a dotted circle, with buds and leaves, above the word VIRGO and the lines i worry, repeated three times.
Virgo flower line drawing with quote
Black and grey flash design of the words HOLY SHIT set in a circle, with bold interlocking letters and a halftone texture.
Circular lettering reading HOLY SHIT