Text tattoo ideas

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Black lettering tattoo reading words with a superscript 3 on the inner wrist, in a typewriter-style font.
Words with a superscript 3 on a wrist
Blue and green scrolling floral butterfly design with a dark brown quotation beneath it, reading let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, Psalm 90:17.
Scrollwork butterfly with Psalm 90:17 quote
Fine line black script tattoo reading awake my soul with a swash underline, on the side of the ribcage, in a black and white photo.
Awake my soul script on the side ribs
Black and white photo of the script phrase Dum Spiro Spero tattooed along a forearm, with a metal watch on the wrist.
Dum Spiro Spero script on a forearm
Black handwritten script tattoo reading Thuder Only Happens When Its Raisinl, placed on the side of the torso above the waistband of blue jeans.
Handwritten quote on the side of the torso
Colour tattoo of a green cartoon bear holding coloured balloons that spell ASS and HOLE, with a cannabis leaf on its belly, on the thigh.
Care Bear with balloons and cannabis leaf
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font across the top of a foot, reading a short note, placed on the foot above the toes.
Typewriter-style note tattoo on the foot
Black script lettering reading Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path, with Psalm 119:105 below, tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Psalm 119:105 lettering on upper back
Black and grey photo of a forearm with the words I go to seek a great perhaps tattooed in a typewriter-style lettering font.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Realism portrait of a bearded man with red blood splatter and the words Don't Open and Dead Inside tattooed on a calf.
Bearded man portrait with zombie and blood splatter
Black Hebrew script lettering tattooed across the inner wrist, in a clean lettering style.
Hebrew lettering on the inner wrist
Fine line script lettering in black ink on a forearm reads Spirit, lead me where my trust is without borders.
Script quote on a forearm
Black ink lettering tattoo reading know your own happiness, with scrolled flourishes above and below, on the upper arm of a person in a denim vest.
Know your own happiness quote on upper arm
Black ink handwritten-style quotation tattooed across a woman's upper back and shoulder blade, with her hand resting on her shoulder.
Handwritten quote tattoo across a upper back
Fine line black script tattoo reading "you and i always" on the upper chest near the collarbone, in a fine line lettering style.
Script phrase above the collarbone
Black fine line elvish-style script tattoo running diagonally across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Elvish-style script across upper back
Black and grey photo of a small script lettering tattoo reading James 1:2 on the neck, with a hand resting in hair above it.
Script "James 1:2" tattoo on the neck
Black fine-line script tattoo reading I carry your heart, I am never without it, across a woman's upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote across the collarbone
Black lettering tattooed vertically down a bare upper back reads "those who matter don't mind", in a typewriter-style font, with a pool behind.
Vertical quote tattooed down the upper back
Two people show black script lettering tattoos across their upper backs, one quote placed above the other, in a lettering style.
Two script quote tattoos across upper backs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the Latin phrase carpe diem in script across the inner wrist and forearm.
Carpe diem script on a wrist
Black typewriter-style lettering reading we're all mad here on a lower leg, with a black and white canvas sneaker beside it.
Quote tattoo on a lower leg
Black fine line script tattoo reading "this is love" with a small heart and a long underline sweep, across the side of a foot.
This is love script on a foot
Black script tattoo reading Amor Vincit Omnia along the side ribs, shown in two photos side by side.
Amor Vincit Omnia script on the ribs
Black script tattoo reading Don't forget to love yourself, sitting on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote on upper chest
Two people stand side by side showing small GRL PWR lettering tattoos in dark blue-black ink on the lower leg above the ankle, in a fine line style.
GRL PWR lettering on two ankles
Red and orange feather quill tattoo on the ribs, with black cursive script reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
Feather quill with script quote on ribs
Red bow tie with black outline at the centre of a circle of black lettering, shown as a lettering-style tattoo on pale skin.
Red bow tie inside circular lettering
Black fine-line tattoo of three arrows above the words for you, a thousand times over, on an upper arm.
Three arrows and a quote on an arm
Two panels of black script lettering on skin: top reads DAD love you xoxox, bottom reads love you always Mom with a small heart, in a handwriting style.
Handwritten Dad and Mom script tattoos on skin
Two black script tattoos side by side, one reading til my last day on a forearm and one reading til my last breath on a second limb.
Matching script quote tattoos
Close-up of the inner wrist and palm showing the words "one of two" in thin black cursive lettering on the forearm.
"one of two" script on an inner wrist
Two matching forearm tattoos in black serif lettering, one reading I carry your heart with me and the other reading (i carry it in my heart).
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Hand-drawn ink design of a winged sheep across three banners reading A teenage vow in a parking lot, til tonight do us part, with grey shading and brown and yellow wash accents.
Winged sheep with lyric banners
Bold black lettering reading must be this tall to ride, with a solid red arrow pointing left, tattooed on skin in a lettering style.
Must be this tall to ride lettering with arrow
Black lettering tattoo running vertically along the side of the hip of a person lying on a bed, with grey underwear waistband visible.
Black lettering tattoo on a hip
Two people show matching black FRIENDS lettering in a blocky sans-serif font across their inner wrists and forearms.
Matching FRIENDS lettering on two wrists
Black and white flash design of a coffin with a central skull, flourishes and a block of lettering on a speckled background, in a lettering style.
Coffin with skull and lettering
Model with a gold metallic lace-patterned gun temporary tattoo on her hip and a geometric hexagon design on her forearm, beside a sheet of matching designs.
Gold lace gun temporary tattoo on hip
Black fine line script lettering reading focus on the good, drawn on a plain white background as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Focus on the good in fine line script
Close-up of the words Thick as Thieves in fine black script on the inner forearm near the elbow, with blurred bottles in the background.
Thick as thieves script on forearm
Close view of a small black fine lettering tattoo reading VENI VIDI VICI in capitals across the inner forearm.
Veni vidi vici lettering on a forearm
Close-up of the word adventure in small black serif lettering on the inner forearm, with a gold bangle and cord bracelet at the wrist.
Adventure lettering on a forearm
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo on the upper thigh of a woman in a white outfit, reading a short quote in black ink.
Fine line script quote on a thigh
Black lettering reading Via Veritas Vita, in a blackletter-style font, across the inner forearm against a red fabric background.
Via Veritas Vita lettering on a forearm
Realism-style tattoo on the upper arm of a flag blowing in the wind, with stars and red and blue shading behind the black script reading We the People of the United States.
We the People script over American flag on arm
Black lettering tattoo reading freedom with a small bird silhouette above the final letters, on the inner wrist, in a Lettering style.
Freedom lettering with a bird on the wrist
Black script lettering of a four-line quote tattooed along the side of a ribcage, on skin partly covered by a red top.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs