Text tattoo ideas

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Black fine line script lettering reading stinate, headstrong girl across the ribs, with grey fabric draped over the top of the frame.
Script quote along the ribs
Two black ink tattoos of the lyric phrases "You are my sunshine" and "My only sunshine", each with a small sun motif, on a person's upper back and a second area of skin below.
Matching sunshine lettering on the back
Black and grey geometric tattoo on the thigh showing latitude and longitude numbers, a boxed 12.31 and 12, two chevrons and a dot.
Coordinates and chevrons on a thigh
Black script lettering reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, with dark footprints, tattooed across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Quote and footprints across upper back
Black ink drawing on paper of two semicolons with the hand-lettered words OUR STORIES and WILL NEVER END, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Semicolon with hand-lettered quote design
Black script lettering tattooed across the ribs in a curved, stacked quotation, in a lettering style on a side torso.
Script quotation along the ribs
Black script lettering reading 'to love another person is to see the face of God' with a small cross, tattooed across the ribs.
Script quote with cross on ribs
Black blackwork infinity symbol tattoo on a forearm, with the words ALL OF THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE written through the loop in handwritten capitals.
Infinity symbol with lettering on forearm
Small black serif lettering reading BRAVE on the outer thigh of a person wearing a white shirt and black top.
Small BRAVE lettering on a thigh
Small black serif tattoo of the number 9 with a superscript 3/4 on the inner wrist, in black ink.
Number 9 and 3/4 on the inner wrist
Black ink handwritten script reading choose joy on a pale grey background, drawn as a lettering design for a tattoo with no body placement shown.
Choose joy handwritten lettering design
Black handwritten script tattoo reading Gone to market, Be back soon, Love, Pig, across the top of a foot in a lettering style.
Handwritten quote across the top of a foot
Black lettering tattoo of a quote set in short lines running diagonally across the side of a bare back and ribs, with a blue-tinted photo.
Lettering quote along the side of the ribs
Close-up of a black fine lettering tattoo reading XI·V·MMXII in Roman numerals on the inner wrist, partly covered by a gold watch strap and bangles.
Roman numeral lettering on the inner wrist
Small black lowercase lettering reading let it be on an upper back, with a gloved finger resting beside it.
Small let it be lettering on upper back
Gold metallic temporary tattoo reading Best Day Ever in script lettering on the inner wrist and forearm.
Gold "Best Day Ever" lettering on a wrist
Colour traditional-style tattoo on a forearm showing a figure seen from behind, framed by banners with lyrics reading Cast your stones and You don't make me who I am.
Figure and lyric banners on a forearm
Black fine-line lettering reading "not all those who wander are lost" runs along the inner forearm.
Quote lettering along a forearm
Close-up of a small black lettering tattoo reading F;GHT ON on the forearm, with the I replaced by a semicolon.
Fight on lettering on a forearm
Black ink semicolon above the words My story isn't over in script lettering on the ankle.
Semicolon and quote on an ankle
Two thin black script tattoos on a person's forearms: a short line of non-Latin script on the left arm and a cursive English quote on the right.
Two forearm script tattoos
Close-up of black typewriter-style lettering reading "the past is practice" across a bare torso, placed on the ribs.
"the past is practice" lettering on ribs
Black lettering tattoo reading YOU ARE WHAT YOU LOVE NOT WHO LOVES YOU, with a small crown at each end, running vertically down a lower leg.
Crown and quote tattoo down the shin
Small black lettering tattoo of four lines of abbreviated text on the inner forearm, beside a gold coin resting on the skin.
Four lines of small text on a forearm
Fine line black script lettering reading 'We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us' tattooed along a forearm.
Script quote along a forearm
Traditional-style tattoo of an open book with the words turn over a new leaf in black script and a red leaf on the page, sitting on the upper arm.
Open book reading turn over a new leaf
Black and white photo of a black script lettering tattoo reading Everything has beauty across the upper back, with a fainter second line of lettering below.
Script quote across upper back
Black lettering tattoo of four vertical Chinese characters running down the centre of a person's back, shown from behind.
Vertical Chinese characters down a back
Black and grey typewriter-style lettering reading wanderlust, tattooed on the inner wrist of a hand with dark nail polish, in a black and white photo.
Wanderlust lettering on a wrist
Close-up of a black lettered tattoo reading BITE ME on the skin below a lower lip, with red-painted nails holding the mouth open.
Bite Me lettering on a lower lip
Small black hand-lettered Bad Wolf tattoo in two lines on the inner wrist, with a pale hand and a denim sleeve.
Bad Wolf lettering on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo running vertically down a woman's upper back, shown from behind in a tan suede top.
Vertical script tattoo on upper back
Black script tattoo reading Beyond fear lies freedom with three small birds in flight, placed on a person's upper back.
Beyond fear lies freedom script with birds on back
Fine line black lettering running diagonally up the inner forearm, set in a thin sans serif typeface and rotated so the text reads vertically.
Rotated sans serif lettering on a forearm
Black fine line bell curve above a quote in black lettering, tattooed on the side of a person's ribs.
Bell curve and quote on the ribs
Black and grey script tattoo reading the sun will soon rise above the shadow, with a sun above and a crescent moon below, on the side of a torso.
Sun, moon and script quote on the side ribs
Black fine line script reading live free with three flying birds on the upper back, seen from behind on a woman in a grey sweater.
Live free script and birds on upper back
Black fine line script reading This too shall pass across a woman's upper shoulder, with her face cropped out of the frame.
Script quote tattoo on a shoulder
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a small bird beside the script words this too shall pass, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Bird and script quote on a forearm
Small black serif lettering reading So it goes. on the upper arm, just below a rolled grey sleeve.
Serif quote on upper arm
Back of a woman with red hair and a floral top, showing a fine line script tattoo reading forever young across the upper back below the neck.
Forever young script on upper back
Black script lettering tattooed on the side ribs reads I gave them life, they gave me a reason to live.
Script quote along the ribs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Life's a tangled web across the ribs, in a lettering style tattoo on bare skin.
Life's a tangled web lettering on the ribs
Black fine line script tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost across the outer thigh, with a denim shirt above it.
Script quote on a thigh
Black script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross across the upper back, with a smaller script tattoo near the left shoulder.
Script cross tattoo across the upper back
Black and grey typewriter lettering reading I told you to be patient, fine, balanced, kind, across the side of the ribs.
Typewriter quote along the ribs
Close photo of the words 'choose life.' in black typewriter-style lettering on the inner upper arm.
Choose life lettering on an upper arm
Black lettering tattoo on a forearm, with song lyrics set in a looping, ribbon-like shape across the inner wrist and arm.
Lyric loop tattoo on a forearm