Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black lettering tattoo of a quote in a serif typewriter-style font running across the inner forearm, with grass in the background.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Close photo of a small fine line script tattoo in black ink running across the inner forearm, with a hand and pink knit sleeve in the frame.
Fine line script tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey photo of the inner forearm with the words ALL MONSTERS ARE HUMAN in block lettering, shown against a window.
All Monsters Are Human lettering on a forearm
Black serif lettering reading Not all those who wander are lost across a pale forearm, set against a blurred green background.
Quote in serif lettering on a forearm
Black script lettering reading 'Don't forget to love yourself' across the inner wrist, in a fine, flowing hand.
Script quote reading 'Don't forget to love yourself' on
Black and grey realism tattoo on a man's upper arm and elbow, showing torn skin peeled back to reveal printed Latin-style text beneath.
Torn skin revealing text on an arm
Black script lettering tattooed on a forearm reads I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Close-up of a hand and forearm with the words IGNORE ALL PROBLEMS in brown block lettering on the inner forearm, against a white background.
Ignore all problems slogan on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a full moon with cratered shading above a small serif quote on a forearm, reading Barn's burnt down, now I can see the moon.
Realistic moon and quote on a forearm
Small black script reading don't blink on the inner wrist of a raised hand against a plain white backdrop.
Don't blink script on the inner wrist
Three small black fine line tattoos on the inner forearm: a sun with the words The Sun, a crescent moon with The Moon, and a yin yang with The Truth.
Sun, moon and yin yang tattoos on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo of the phrase What's Past is Prologue with a small arrow beneath it, on the inner forearm, in a lettering style.
Quote and arrow on a forearm
Black and grey botanical tattoo on the inner forearm with daffodil-style flowers, leaves and a rectangular frame containing the words this feeling is just for now.
Floral frame with quote on forearm
Sketch style forearm tattoo of dandelion seed heads, a red sun and lettering in black ink with touches of red, on the inner forearm.
Dandelions and red sun on a forearm
Two wrists side by side showing black script lettering reading No lies and Just love, placed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
No lies and Just love wrist script
Black fine line tattoo on a forearm showing leaves, a cluster of flowers and a framed box reading everything carries me to you, in a botanical fine line style.
Quote and botanical forearm tattoo
Lettering tattoo on a forearm with a book-themed text quote in blue, purple and black serif and sans-serif fonts, with an ampersand and a small flourish.
Typographic book quote on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Where you invest your love, you invest your life, tattooed across a forearm near the wrist.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of the words I love you to the moon and back in handwritten lettering, with a small crescent moon below, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
"I love you to the moon and back" lettering with moon
Black text tattoo of a fatal exception error message running along a raised forearm and upper arm, set in a monospaced typewriter-style font.
Blue screen error message tattoo on arm
Fine line black script tattoo reading "Remember that I love you" running along the inner forearm near the wrist.
Handwritten quote along the inner forearm
Two black lettering tattoos in a typewriter font sit on a pair of forearms, one reading Do or die you'll never make me and the other reading Because the world will never take my heart.
Two forearm quote tattoos in typewriter lettering
Small black serif capital letters tattooed on the inner wrist, resting on a patterned fleece and a yellow blanket.
Small Greek capital lettering on wrist
Traditional style colour tattoo on a forearm showing a red flower, two yellow flowers and green leaves around two ribbon banners that read NO RULES.
No rules banner and flowers on a forearm
Large downward triangle tattoo with a black outline and a blue and pink galaxy design with white stars, on a forearm, with a small script line near the wrist.
Galaxy-filled triangle on a forearm
Close-up of a fine line script quote tattoo in black ink across the inside of a forearm, resting on a patchwork quilt in a sepia photo.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Yellow lettering with a dark outline reading DON'T PANIC in bubble capitals, tattooed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Don't Panic lettering on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo on the inner forearm showing a city skyline with a domed building, a bridge and a line of lettering beneath.
Skyline line art with lettering on forearm
Black script lettering on a forearm reading She dreamed of paradise, every time she closed her eyes, set against a purple patterned background.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and grey serif lettering tattoo of a two-line quote running across the inner forearm.
Two-line quote across the forearm
Black and grey photograph of the phrase 'still I rise' in small serif lettering on the inner wrist of a forearm against a dark background.
Still I rise lettering on a wrist
Black and white photo of two palms-up wrists, each with black script lettering tattooed on the inner wrist reading "Don't make this easy" and "I want you to mean it".
Matching script quote tattoos on two wrists
Fine line black tattoo on the inner wrist showing a heartbeat line that forms a cross and ends in a heart, with small text reading faith, hope and love below.
Heartbeat cross and heart on a wrist
Black and grey Devanagari script tattoo running across a forearm, with a red string bracelet on the wrist against a dark background.
Devanagari script across a forearm
Black and white photo of a raised hand showing a fine line Roman numeral lettering tattoo along the inner forearm near the wrist.
Roman numeral tattoo on the inner wrist
Two interlocked forearms show black script lettering reading Every Saint Has A Past and Every Sinner Has A Future, on a person's arm in the foreground.
Matching saint and sinner script on forearms
Black serif lettering on a forearm reading so it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive, in a Lettering style on the forearm.
Serif quote tattoo on a forearm
Close photo of the word COURAGE above FEAR in lettering split by a horizontal line on the wrist, with part of a leaf tattoo visible above it.
Courage and fear lettering on a wrist
Black lettering reading To die will be an awfully big adventure above an outlined star tattoo on a forearm.
Quote and star on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading We're all mad here runs diagonally along a forearm, set in a simple, even sans serif style.
We're all mad here lettering on a forearm
Black and white photo of the word faith in a serif typewriter style lettering tattoo on the inner forearm of a person in a leather jacket.
Faith lettering on a forearm
Close-up of a fine black lettering tattoo on the inner forearm showing latitude and longitude coordinates in a clean sans-serif typeface.
Latitude and longitude coordinates on a forearm
Black line tattoo on a forearm reading 'You were meant for amazing things' above an adult elephant with a semicolon on its body and a small calf walking beside it.
Quote and elephants on a forearm
Small black handwritten tattoo reading PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT on a forearm, with an open hand resting on a white marble surface.
Handwritten quote on a forearm
Fine line script tattoo reading bind my wandering heart to thee in black ink across the inner forearm.
Script quote on the inner forearm
Close photograph of the phrase Lights will guide you home in black cursive script across the inside of a forearm.
Script quote reading Lights will guide you home
Black script lettering tattoo of a quotation running diagonally along a forearm, with a larger flowing opening line and smaller text below.
Script quote along a forearm
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading Real or Not Real? on the inner wrist, shown in lettering style.
Real or Not Real script on a wrist