Text tattoo ideas

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Colourful kawaii taco tattoo with a smiling face and the words I DON'T WANNA 'BOUT IT on an upper arm, surrounded by a skull, leaves and a butterfly.
Kawaii taco with lettering on an upper arm
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 and grey tattoo of a McDonald's receipt on the outer forearm, with the golden arches logo at the top and itemised lines below.
McDonald's receipt tattoo 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 ink tattoo of a horned, snake-tailed creature above the words Never run from anything immortal, on the upper arm of a woman in a navy vest top.
Horned creature and slogan on upper arm
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
Drawn design of a skeletal ribcage and pelvis with a pink rose on the left and a blue butterfly on the right, with the text you're the only thing that's keeping me alive.
Skeleton ribcage with rose and butterfly
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
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
Two matching forearm tattoos with black bird silhouettes, blue, teal and pink watercolour splashes, and the words Choose to keep going and this too shall pass beside a semicolon.
Matching semicolon and bird tattoos with watercolour
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