Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey photo of the words So it goes and a small starburst tattooed on the inner forearm, in a clean fine line lettering style.
So it goes lettering and starburst on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a cowboy on a barrel racing horse, with the words Courage is being scared, across a woman's upper back.
Barrel racer and horse with quote on upper back
Nine small white lettering designs in gold and dark brown script, mostly reading just drunk, with one reading drunk in love, arranged on a white surface.
Just drunk lettering designs in gold script
Black script tattoo reading I am not afraid, I was born to do this, across the inner forearm, with a silver skull bracelet on the wrist.
Script quote tattoo on forearm
Black and grey script lettering of the Serenity Prayer running diagonally across skin on the side of the ribs.
Serenity Prayer script tattoo along the ribs
Fine line lettering reading TOUGH ENOUGH in orange, teal, purple, green and yellow on the upper arm of a person in a striped top.
Multicoloured TOUGH ENOUGH lettering on upper arm
Back view of a woman with platinum blonde hair and a fine black lettering tattoo running vertically down her upper arm, with a lace-up satin dress.
Fine lettering on upper arm, back view
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading May the Force be with you in bold sans-serif capitals across the inner forearm near the wrist.
May the Force quote on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo of a quote in a serif typeface running along a forearm that rests on grass.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black ink script lettering on an upper arm showing a crossed-out name above the words oops and I meant Hollie, in a freehand script style.
Crossed-out name with 'oops I meant' lettering
Black ink lettering reading Expecto Patronum in an arched serif font across the side of a thigh, with dark clothing at the top of the frame.
Expecto Patronum lettering on a hip
Two matching handwritten script tattoos on the inner wrists, one reading I love you and the other reading I love you more, in black ink.
Matching I love you and I love you more wrist script
Black and white photo of a fine line handwritten script tattoo running down the side of the ribs, partly covered by a dark top and lace bra.
Handwritten script line along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo reading Think happy thoughts on the back of a woman's neck, below blonde braided hair, in a lettering style.
Think happy thoughts lettering on the nape
Black script lettering reading Never a victim, Forever a fighter across the lower back above the waistband of jeans.
Script quote across the lower back
Black fine line script reading cute but psycho, but cute, tattooed along the side of a ribcage below a black lace garment edge.
Script quote on the ribs
Black and white photo of a black script quote tattoo running along the upper thigh, partly covered by a hand holding dark fabric.
Script quote along the upper thigh
Black lettering tattoo reading Because This Moment Simply Is in a serif typeface across the forearm.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading 'The pain you feel today... is the strength you feel tomorrow' across the lower back, above a grey waistband.
Script quote tattoo across the lower back
Black lettering tattoo in a serif typeface reading 'There is a light that never goes out', running diagonally along the inner forearm.
Quote tattoo along a forearm
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading werde, der du bist across the inner forearm, on a plastic-covered table.
Small German text on the forearm
Black ink handwritten script on white paper reading "don't let idiots ruin your day" in three lines, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo.
Handwritten lettering: don't let idiots ruin your day
Black lettering tattoo reading I'm the hero of this story across the side of the torso, above a grey fabric top, in a sepia-toned photo.
Quote tattoo reading I'm the hero of this story
Black script lettering tattoo reading Fall down seven times, stand up eight, on the side of a ribcage.
Script quote on the ribs
Black script reading sempre con voi with a simple bird outline on the upper arm, shown in two stacked photos.
Sempre con voi script and bird on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of the words She believed she could so she did in script, beside a shaded feather on the forearm.
Feather and quote on a forearm
Black linework tattoo of a tree with a leafy canopy, two long trunks and grass, beside the quotation 'and she loved a little boy very, very much even more than she loved herself', with grey shading at
Tree and quotation tattoo on the side of the body
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a crouching hare with a small orange eye and the words WHAT IS, IS WHAT MUST BE arched above it, on the side of the body.
Crouching hare with arched quote
Black fine line script reading I hope you think of me across the side of the ribs, with a grey jumper partly covering the skin above it.
Handwritten quote along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of the phrase Stuff your eyes with wonder in a typewriter-style font on the upper back.
Quote reading Stuff your eyes with wonder
Black script lettering design on a white background, with Arabic calligraphy above the English words "If it's meant to be, It will be."
Arabic and English quote lettering design
Black and grey and colour tattoo on a person's upper back showing a yellow rose with green leaves, three black birds and the quote about the most poetical topic in the world.
Yellow rose, birds and quote on upper back
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, with swirling flourishes, running along the outer foot near the ankle.
Quote script along the outer foot
Black fine line script reading I will see you again, with three small bird silhouettes above it, tattooed on a person's upper back.
"I will see you again" script with three birds
Black brush lettering tattoo reading "Much virtue in if" in a loose, hand-drawn style on the upper arm.
Much virtue in if lettering on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo of a crescent moon with the words I love you to the moon and back and small stars, on the inside of a raised wrist.
Crescent moon lettering tattoo on a wrist
Black fine line tattoo of a lollipop with the words SUCK IT above it, placed on the upper arm.
Lollipop and SUCK IT lettering on upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line Roman numeral lettering tattoo running down the centre of a woman's upper back.
Roman numerals down the upper back
Black ink drawing of a swallow above a speech-bubble shape containing the handwritten quote about desire and fire, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Swallow and quote design on paper
Close view of the back of a neck with the black lettering open at the close tattooed in a serif script, with a raised scar running down below it.
Open at the close lettering on neck
Black and grey photograph of a small tattoo of two flying swallows above the script phrase 'you can go now' on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Two birds and script on the inner wrist
Black and grey sans-serif lettering reading 'you get what anyone gets, you get a lifetime' across a person's upper back beside a tank top strap.
Quote lettering on upper back
Two stacked photos of black script lettering on a forearm, one reading I'll love you forever and I'll like you for always, the other reading As long as I'm living and My baby you'll be.
Script love quotes on a forearm
Black and grey photo of two forearms, each with a line of serif lettering tattooed on it: a quote about understanding and destroying oneself on the left, and one about fixing oneself on the right.
Two serif quotes on both forearms
Black and white photo of both forearms covered in lettering and collage-style tattoos, including outlined MY LIFE text, a skull, and a rose on the hand.
Forearm lettering and sticker-style collage tattoos
Black script lettering reading My Story Isn't Over, with a large solid black semicolon above and below it, on a plain white background as a lettering tattoo design.
Semicolon with My Story Isn't Over script
Close-up of a small black fine line script tattoo on a woman's ribs, with a tiny star-like tattoo on her upper arm, taken on a sunny beach.
Fine line script tattoo on the ribs at the beach
Black serif lettering reading "but without the dark, we'd never see the stars" tattooed across the upper back below a dark strap.
Quote tattoo across the upper back