Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black and white ink flash design of a perfume atomiser, lipstick and hand-lettered text reading Let me get my girly shit, with small heart labels.
Perfume atomiser, lipstick and lettering flash
Black handwritten script lettering reading Just a girl who decided to go for it, on a plain off-white background with a hatched strip across the top.
Script quote, Just a girl who decided to go for it
Two forearms with matching black lettering of latitude and longitude coordinates in a simple serif font, the lower line rotated upside down in the photo.
Latitude and longitude coordinates on two forearms
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a scalloped heart reading BE BRAVE, framed by two flowers and dark leaves, on a forearm.
Be brave heart with flowers on a forearm
Two matching ankle tattoos of latitude and longitude coordinates set in blue lettering, one on each of two people's ankles.
Matching coordinate tattoos on ankles
Fine line black barcode tattoo with the word HUMAN beneath it, placed on the inside of a wrist.
Barcode with HUMAN on a wrist
Close-up of a fine black lettering tattoo reading 51°30'26"N 0°7'39"W in a single line across the upper chest below the collarbone.
Coordinates tattoo on the upper chest
Black and grey fine line lettering on the inner forearm reading she has fire in her soul and grace in her heart, set in two lines.
Two-line quote on inner forearm
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
Close photo of a black serif lettering tattoo reading bad circumstances good jokes on an upper arm, with an office background.
Text tattoo reading bad circumstances good jokes
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 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
Black script tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back with a black crescent moon below it, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Quote and crescent moon on the inner wrist
Black handwritten lettering on an upper arm reads its is my life with the attribution Jon Bovi beneath it.
Handwritten quote on upper arm
Black script tattoo reading Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your Heart, with two black paw prints, on the side of a torso.
Paw prints and quote on the ribs
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded feather with a looping script quote reading Behind every happily ever after there's an extraordinary story, across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Feather and script quote on upper back
Black and grey script reading Daddy's Little Girl with two swallows and small stars, tattooed on the back of a neck in Traditional and lettering style.
Script and swallows on the back of neck
Small black vertical lettering tattoo on the upper chest, shown in a close photo of a person with long wavy hair and a grey vest top.
Vertical lettering tattoo on the chest
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading 'To die will be an awfully big adventure' along the ribs, with a hand resting on the chest.
Script quote tattoo along the ribs
Close photograph of a fine line script tattoo reading With pain comes strength across the skin of the back in black ink.
Script quote reading With pain comes strength
Fine line script tattoo reading "do small things with great love" running vertically beside the spine on a bare back.
Script quote running down the back
Fine black script reading I could really use a wish right now across the upper back of a woman with long hair, lit by sunlight through blinds.
Script quote across upper back
Black handwritten script reading 'Who gon stop me' in thin monoline lettering on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Handwritten 'Who gon stop me' script design
Black serif capital lettering reading PROME QUEEN runs vertically down the centre of a person's back in a lettering style.
Spaced capital lettering down the spine
Black ink tattoo on a forearm showing a handwritten quote, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate, beside a simple stick figure holding a briefcase.
Quote and stick figure on a forearm
Black script lettering reading 'Music is an outburst of the soul' beside a large treble clef, drawn as a tattoo-style design with no body part shown.
Treble clef with 'Music is an outburst of the soul'
Black serif lettering tattoo on the ribs reading 'If you don't swim you'll drown', with a white shirt pulled up beside it.
Quote tattoo on the ribs
Fine line black script reading if you're a bird, I'm a bird, with three bird silhouettes, tattooed on the wrist.
Script quote with three birds on a wrist
Black fine line lettering design of the symbols G>ΛV above a horizontal rule and the words God is greater than the highs and lows, on a white background.
God is greater than the highs and lows
Black script lettering reading "We are the kids your parents warned you about" along the side of a ribcage, worn with a white open-back vest.
Script quote along the ribs
Black lettering reading Anam Cara in a flowing script across the inner wrist, with the hand visible below.
Anam Cara lettering on the wrist
Black Devanagari script tattoo on the side of the ribs, shown beside a blue patterned dress held by a hand.
Devanagari script tattoo on the ribs
Black fine-line lettering reading a quote, with two small roses and a colour sugar skull tattoo on a thigh.
Quote text and sugar skull on a thigh
Black typewriter-style lettering reading the heart of life is good on the upper arm, with a red and purple checked shirt beside it.
Typewriter quote on the upper arm
Black, uneven hand-drawn block lettering on a lower leg reads 'Don't let them see you're afraid', in a rough lettering style on the calf.
'Don't let them see you're afraid' lettering on a calf
Fine line black lettering tattoo forming a heart outline on the inner forearm, with the words set along the curve of the heart.
Heart outline of lettering on a forearm
Black lettering reading Valar Morghulis with a circle symbol on a forearm, in a lettering style, with a gold surface behind.
Valar Morghulis lettering on a forearm
Close-up photo of the words Fairest of them all in black cursive script across the upper chest, with the first letter F in a larger flourished style.
Fairest of them all script on collarbone
Small black hand-lettered script reading never grow up on the outer upper arm of a woman in a teal t-shirt, in a black and grey lettering style.
Never grow up script on upper arm
Small black lettering on the top of a finger reads Sm:)e, with the colon and bracket forming a smiley in place of the i.
Smile lettering with smiley on finger
Black lettering tattoo of three flying bird silhouettes above the words Let it be in script, on the inside of a wrist.
Three birds and Let it be on a wrist
Black Arabic script with English transliteration beneath it, reading dream, believe, dare, do, shown as a lettering design on a plain white background with no skin visible.
Arabic lettering reading dream, believe, dare, do
Black lettering tattoo reading she believed she could so she did, set in a typewriter-style font along the side of the ribs.
Quote lettering along the ribs
Small black fine line tattoo reading DISCO DOLL in capital letters on the side of a hip, with a white bikini strap nearby.
Disco Doll wording on a hip
Black and grey lettering tattoo of poem lines in a typewriter-style font running across the inner forearm.
Poem lines tattooed across the forearm
Black fine line tattoo on the side of the ribs showing a cross joined to a heartbeat line that ends in an outlined heart, with the words FAITH. HOPE. LOVE beneath.
Heartbeat cross and heart with faith, hope, love
Black lettering tattoo reading Too Weird To Live Too Rare To Die with small bird silhouettes, placed on the side of the ribs.
Too weird to live quote on ribs
Close photo of the word WHATEVER in thin black capital letters, spaced out in a fine line lettering style along a forearm.
WHATEVER lettering on the forearm