Text tattoo ideas

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

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Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, placed on the upper thigh of a person in a denim shirt.
Script quote tattoo on the upper thigh
Black line drawing of the words GET AWAY FROM ME, with each letter set on a thin stem with small leaves, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Get away from me lettering on stems
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
Black and grey pen drawing of a compass rose with an arrow, trailing ribbons and the words Time flies like an arrow, shown as a tattoo design.
Compass rose and arrow design with quote
Close-up of a black fine line script tattoo reading 'your story isn't over yet;' across the upper chest, with a black choker at the neck.
Script quote on the upper chest
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 fine line eye inside a triangle with small text around it on the upper arm, and 'be strong girl' lettering on the ribs.
Eye in triangle and 'be strong girl' lettering
Black script lettering reading If you're a bird, I'm a bird, with small flying bird silhouettes, tattooed on the back of a neck.
Bird quote script on the back of the neck
Black fine line script quote tattooed along the upper thigh, with a small outlined bird and a red heart below the text.
Quote and bird on a thigh
Black and red fine line ornamental sleeve tattoo with keys, diamonds and lace patterns across the forearm, shown in three photographs.
Ornamental lace-style forearm sleeve
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
Black script tattoo reading Psalm 45:13 in a fine line style on the inner wrist.
Psalm 45:13 script on the inner wrist
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading but the fighter still remains, placed on the middle of a person's back.
Fine line script quote on the mid back
Black fine line script tattoo reading Life's roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors, with a small anchor, on the side of a foot.
Script quote and anchor on a foot
Black fine line lettering on two feet, one reading for them I'd risk it all and the other reading because of her I will not fall.
Matching quote tattoos on two feet
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
Fine line black script lettering reading with pain comes strength, placed along the side of the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Black fine line script tattoo reading 'I will fear no evil for you are with me' across the upper back near the shoulder.
Handwritten script quote on upper back
Black fine line script lettering arranged in a heart shape on skin, forming a handwritten quote.
Heart-shaped script quote tattoo
Fine line black script tattoo reading walk by faith across the top of a foot.
Walk by faith script on a foot
Fine line black script quote tattooed along the side of a ribcage, reading life is not measured by the number of breaths we take.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Handwritten script reading don't worry, joined by a long thin horizontal line, in white on a black textured background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Don't worry script lettering design
Fine line black tattoo on an upper arm showing a desert road, cactus, sun, mountains, bull skull and the words Doing time in the universal mind.
Desert road and cactus with lettering on an arm
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
Close photograph of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' across the collarbone near the shoulder, with a white top below.
Script quote 'this too shall pass' on collarbone
Black line tattoo of two floor plans with the word CLOVER on a forearm, in a fine line style, against a grey sofa.
Floor plan tattoos on a forearm
Black line tattoo of a hanging sign reading Gone to Market on the top of a foot, in a simple fine line style.
Gone to Market sign on the top of a foot
Fine line black script reading let it be with three small birds in flight above it, tattooed on the side of a person's body.
Let it be lettering with birds on skin
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 linework crescent moon with a simple face, the words LA LUNA and the number 23 tattooed on the inner wrist.
Crescent moon with La Luna on a wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo on a forearm showing a cartoon child on a branch beside a rabbit and a wooden sign reading Edge Keep Off.
Vintage child and sign tattoo on forearm
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
Fine line mountain outline with shaded peaks and printed coordinates, plus a green spiral, tattooed across the side of a foot.
Mountain outline and coordinates on a foot
Two hands with dark nails rest over forearms covered in small black fine line doodle tattoos of dice, moons, arrows and the word ghoul.
Small doodle tattoos across both forearms
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading You'll be in my heart always, across the upper chest near the shoulder.
Script quote on upper chest
Black script lettering reading "When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you" beside a column of footprint outlines, a fine line lettering tattoo on the side of the body.
Footprints and script quote on skin
Realistic fine line humpback whale tattoo in grey ink on the side of a torso, with the words Pro memoria written above it.
Humpback whale with script on the ribs
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading 'To die will be an awfully big adventure' along the ribs, with a hand resting on the chest.
Script quote tattoo along the ribs
Close photograph of a fine line script tattoo reading With pain comes strength across the skin of the back in black ink.
Script quote reading With pain comes strength
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
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
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
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