Text tattoo ideas

2,685 photos and flash · 86% Lettering, 26% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Black serif lettering tattoo reading 'We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness' on the upper body.
Serif quote tattoo on skin
Black and red fine line ornamental sleeve tattoo with keys, diamonds and lace patterns across the forearm, shown in three photographs.
Ornamental lace-style forearm sleeve
Close-up of a black ink lettering tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates on a shoulder, above a grey top.
Coordinates tattoo on a shoulder
Black ink lettering tattoo on a lower leg, styled as a handwritten list of short phrases in a post-apocalyptic theme.
Handwritten list tattoo on a calf
Black lettering tattoo reading One foot in the grave on the calf of a leg, shown next to a prosthetic leg with a trainer on the foot.
Quote lettering on a calf beside a prosthetic leg
Close-up of a fine line script lettering tattoo running along the inside of a forearm, with a crystal-encrusted bracelet worn on the wrist.
Small script line tattoo on a forearm
White line drawing on a black background of an eye within a circular frame, with a curved banner above reading EYE OF and a banner below reading ELENA.
Eye of Elena banner emblem design
Dark distressed block lettering reading SUCK IT UP across a forearm just above the wrist, with a clenched fist at the top of the frame.
Suck It Up block lettering on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red heart with a NOT YOU banner, yellow daisies and black arrows on the upper arm, against a daisy-print top.
Heart with banner and daisies on an upper arm
Black fine lettering reading "I am." in a typewriter-style serif on the side of a person's ankle and foot.
"I am." lettering on the ankle
Black lettering reading 'To die will be an awfully big adventure' above a thin outlined eight-pointed star, tattooed on a forearm in a lettering style.
Quote and star on a forearm
Small colour tattoo on the inner wrist of a hand showing a red medical alert star of life beside the black lettering DIABETIC TYPE 1.
Diabetic type 1 medical alert tattoo on a wrist
Black script tattoo of the words 'The pain you feel today... is the strength you feel tomorrow' across the lower back, just above a waistband.
Script quote tattoo across the lower back
Black ink line drawing of an ornate vintage key with stippled dotwork shading beside the words 'We carry our prisons with us' in handwritten capitals, with no body placement shown.
Key with a 'We carry our prisons with us' quote
Close-up of gold foil script reading bride tribe on the inner forearm and wrist of a hand, with a pink peony beside it.
Gold bride tribe lettering on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading "One foot in the grave" on the back of a calf, beside a blue prosthetic leg.
Lettering reading one foot in the grave on a calf
Black ink quote tattoo reading 'The hardest thing in this world is to live in it' in serif lettering, running along a forearm.
Quote tattoo along a forearm
Black script tattoo reading Psalm 45:13 in a fine line style on the inner wrist.
Psalm 45:13 script on the inner wrist
Black handwritten script lettering tattooed across a person's upper back and shoulder blade, with a hand resting on the shoulder.
Script quote across a shoulder blade
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading but the fighter still remains, placed on the middle of a person's back.
Fine line script quote on the mid back
Black fine line script tattoo reading Life's roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors, with a small anchor, on the side of a foot.
Script quote and anchor on a foot
Black fine line lettering on two feet, one reading for them I'd risk it all and the other reading because of her I will not fall.
Matching quote tattoos on two feet
Black fine-line lettering tattoo of a quote in a serif script running along the inner forearm near the wrist, against a pale fluffy background.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Black line drawing of a flexed arm with a heart-and-arrow tattoo reading MOM on the upper arm, on a plain grey background.
Heart with arrow and MOM on a drawn arm
Close-up of a small black fine line tattoo reading "type one" with chevron symbols below it, on the inner wrist, in fine line lettering style.
Small fine line "type one" wrist tattoo
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with ornamental flourishes above and below the text.
Quote lettering with flourishes on a thigh
Black brush-lettered phrase reading Through it all, it is well on a plain white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Through it all, it is well lettering
Close-up of a metallic gold temporary tattoo on a wrist showing a ring with a diamond, the words BRIDE and tribe inside the band, and small sparkles.
Gold bride tribe ring temporary tattoo
Close-up of a fine line black script quote running diagonally across a fair-skinned forearm, with a ring visible on the hand below.
Script quote along a forearm
Black lettering reading don't blink in a typewriter-style font sits along the upper chest, just below the collarbone, in a close photo.
Don't blink lettering on the upper chest
Black and grey script lettering tattoo on the lower back of a person in a grey crop top and white shorts, photographed from behind in a mirror.
Script tattoo on lower back
Black typewriter-style lettering across the upper back of a woman seen from behind in a hot tub, reading I'm the hero of this story.
Quote tattoo across the upper back
Black script lettering reading Family doesn't end in blood runs diagonally down the inner forearm in a fine line tattoo.
Family quote in script on a forearm
Several forearms and wrists show matching black script tattoos reading "to life.", with a small heart symbol on one arm and a colour flower tattoo on another.
Matching "to life" script tattoos on forearms
Close photo of a black lettering tattoo on the inner upper arm, reading three lines of italic text in a plain serif typeface.
Three-line quote on an upper arm
Black and grey realistic scroll tattoo with the lettering you can run from your problems but you can't run from yourself, on the side of the ribs.
Scroll with quote on the side
Fine line black script lettering reading with pain comes strength, placed along the side of the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Black and grey script tattoo reading With pain comes strength across the upper back near the shoulder blade, photographed in black and white.
Script quote across upper back
Black and grey photograph of the words One Life One Chance in cursive script tattooed across a person's upper back, with the head and hair cropped at the top of the frame.
One Life One Chance script on upper back
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading 'things are shaping up to be pretty odd' along the inner forearm.
Typewriter-style quote on a forearm
Black fine line script tattoo reading 'I will fear no evil for you are with me' across the upper back near the shoulder.
Handwritten script quote on upper back
Traditional style tattoo of a stack of books with banners reading I'VE LIVED A THOUSAND LIVES, placed on the top of a foot.
Stacked books and banners on a foot
Black fine line script lettering arranged in a heart shape on skin, forming a handwritten quote.
Heart-shaped script quote tattoo
Fine line black script tattoo reading walk by faith across the top of a foot.
Walk by faith script on a foot
Black lettering tattoo reading don't panic in a typewriter-style font across the inner wrist of a forearm, with green crystal beads in the foreground.
Don't panic lettering on an inner wrist
Fine line black script quote tattooed along the side of a ribcage, reading life is not measured by the number of breaths we take.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Forearm tattoo of red lips biting a black triangle, set within a sunburst of fine lines and a block-text quote, with soft watercolour washes.
Biting lips and triangle on a forearm
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading Leave a Coment Below on a shaved scalp above an ear.
Text tattoo reading Leave a Coment Below