Text tattoo ideas

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

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Fine black lettering in the Devanagari script on the inner forearm, framed by a row of small dots on each side.
Devanagari script on the forearm
Black script lettering tattoo on a forearm reading happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the lights.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey fine line lettering tattoo of a three-line quote in cursive script across the inner wrist.
Script quote on the inner wrist
Black lettering tattoo on a forearm, with the words FLOAT, CATCH, BLEED, DEATH, STIFF and PUSH stacked in a staggered column in a simple sans serif.
Six stacked words on a forearm
Dark purple block capitals reading BEST DAY EVER on the inner forearm near the wrist, with a white rose lying beside the arm.
Best day ever lettering on a wrist
Close-up of a dark script lettering tattoo reading We All Fall Down Sometimes, with a small outlined scalloped star below, on a limb.
We All Fall Down Sometimes lettering on a forearm
Fine black fine-line tattoo on the inner wrist reading "we're alright though" in typewriter lettering, with a safety pin and five tally marks beneath it.
Quote and safety pin on the inner wrist
Blue lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird." in a lettering style.
Mockingbird quote on a forearm
Black and grey photo of a small serif lettering tattoo reading Be. on the inner wrist of a raised hand with dark painted nails.
Small serif word Be. on a wrist
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' along a forearm, with a blurred background.
Script phrase on a forearm
Black and grey Roman numeral tattoo on a forearm beside a fine serif lettering tattoo on another forearm, outdoors in green grass.
Matching Roman numeral and lettering forearm tattoos
Black script lettering tattoo reading 'He is jealous for me' across a forearm, set against a blue background.
Script quote 'He is jealous for me' on a forearm
Close-up of a fine line script lettering tattoo running along the inside of a forearm, with a crystal-encrusted bracelet worn on the wrist.
Small script line tattoo on a forearm
Dark distressed block lettering reading SUCK IT UP across a forearm just above the wrist, with a clenched fist at the top of the frame.
Suck It Up block lettering on a forearm
Black lettering reading 'To die will be an awfully big adventure' above a thin outlined eight-pointed star, tattooed on a forearm in a lettering style.
Quote and star on a forearm
Small colour tattoo on the inner wrist of a hand showing a red medical alert star of life beside the black lettering DIABETIC TYPE 1.
Diabetic type 1 medical alert tattoo on a wrist
Close-up of gold foil script reading bride tribe on the inner forearm and wrist of a hand, with a pink peony beside it.
Gold bride tribe lettering on a wrist
Black ink quote tattoo reading 'The hardest thing in this world is to live in it' in serif lettering, running along a forearm.
Quote tattoo along a forearm
Black fine-line lettering tattoo of a quote in a serif script running along the inner forearm near the wrist, against a pale fluffy background.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Close-up of a small black fine line tattoo reading "type one" with chevron symbols below it, on the inner wrist, in fine line lettering style.
Small fine line "type one" wrist tattoo
Close-up of a fine line black script quote running diagonally across a fair-skinned forearm, with a ring visible on the hand below.
Script quote along a forearm
Black script lettering reading Family doesn't end in blood runs diagonally down the inner forearm in a fine line tattoo.
Family quote in script on a forearm
Several forearms and wrists show matching black script tattoos reading "to life.", with a small heart symbol on one arm and a colour flower tattoo on another.
Matching "to life" script tattoos on forearms
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading 'things are shaping up to be pretty odd' along the inner forearm.
Typewriter-style quote on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading don't panic in a typewriter-style font across the inner wrist of a forearm, with green crystal beads in the foreground.
Don't panic lettering on an inner wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading ELATION, ELEGANCE, EXALTATION and I LOVE SUPREME on a forearm, with a person in zebra-print shorts holding a cigarette in front of a brick wall.
Four-line text tattoo on a forearm
Close photo of the words The best is yet to come in thin black script tattooed diagonally along the inner forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
Two forearms with matching black lettering of latitude and longitude coordinates in a simple serif font, the lower line rotated upside down in the photo.
Latitude and longitude coordinates on two forearms
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a scalloped heart reading BE BRAVE, framed by two flowers and dark leaves, on a forearm.
Be brave heart with flowers on a forearm
Fine line black barcode tattoo with the word HUMAN beneath it, placed on the inside of a wrist.
Barcode with HUMAN on a wrist
Black and grey fine line lettering on the inner forearm reading she has fire in her soul and grace in her heart, set in two lines.
Two-line quote on inner forearm
Black script tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back with a black crescent moon below it, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Quote and crescent moon on the inner wrist
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
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 lettering reading Anam Cara in a flowing script across the inner wrist, with the hand visible below.
Anam Cara lettering on the wrist
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
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 and grey lettering tattoo of poem lines in a typewriter-style font running across the inner forearm.
Poem lines tattooed across the forearm
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 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 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
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
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
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