Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font running down the side of the ribs, reading let it go, let them go, let all go, so comes love.
Typewriter quote along the ribs
Black script lettering reading a four-line rhyming poem tattooed across the upper back, near the shoulder blade.
Script poem tattoo on upper back
Black lettering tattoo of the HTML tags </head> and <body> in a bold sans-serif font, placed on the back of the neck, with a khaki cap and grey top visible.
HTML head and body tags on the neck
Red and pink dripping FRESH lettering tattooed across the stomach, shown below a white bra.
FRESH lettering across the stomach
Black line drawing of a tattoo design reading God is greater than the highs and the lows, with angular G, chevron and V shapes above the words.
God is greater than the highs and the lows
Black and grey typewriter-style lettering tattoo of a four-line quote across a person's upper back, shown in a black and white photograph.
Typewriter quote across upper back
Black and grey serif lettering tattoo of a two-line quote running across the inner forearm.
Two-line quote across the forearm
Black and grey photograph of the phrase 'still I rise' in small serif lettering on the inner wrist of a forearm against a dark background.
Still I rise lettering on a wrist
Black and white photo of two palms-up wrists, each with black script lettering tattooed on the inner wrist reading "Don't make this easy" and "I want you to mean it".
Matching script quote tattoos on two wrists
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading "to travel is to live" with a dotted flight path and airplane, on the side of the ribs.
Script quote with airplane on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh in a lettering style, with a serif quote about courage between two ornamental scroll flourishes.
Lettered quote tattoo on the thigh
Black script lettering reading Luke 1:45 on the inner wrist of a palm-up hand, against a dark floral background.
Luke 1:45 script lettering on a wrist
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Fight Your Demons on the side of a torso, with a decorative F, placed over the ribs.
Fight Your Demons lettering on ribs
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the top of a foot showing three elephant silhouettes in a line above the words One step at a time.
Three elephants and script on a foot
Black and grey Devanagari script tattoo running across a forearm, with a red string bracelet on the wrist against a dark background.
Devanagari script across a forearm
Black script lettering of a quote runs down the side of the ribs, framed by two outlined hearts and small stars, shown in a sepia-toned photo.
Quote lettering with two hearts on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo on skin reading La revolución será feminista o no será, in block capitals on a shaded rectangular panel.
Spanish feminist slogan lettering
Black and white photo of a raised hand showing a fine line Roman numeral lettering tattoo along the inner forearm near the wrist.
Roman numeral tattoo on the inner wrist
Black and grey realism tattoo of praying hands and an unrolled scroll of scripture across the ribs and side of the torso.
Praying hands and scripture scroll on ribs
Close-up of a black fine-line lettering tattoo reading Peace will win, Fear will lose in a typewriter-style font, with a small tattoo visible on the upper arm in the left panel.
Peace will win quote lettering on skin
Two interlocked forearms show black script lettering reading Every Saint Has A Past and Every Sinner Has A Future, on a person's arm in the foreground.
Matching saint and sinner script on forearms
Close-up of a dark blue script lettering tattoo reading Never a failure, Always a lesson across the ribs, partly covered by a pink sports bra.
Script quote on ribs
Fresh tattoo of a red awareness ribbon with black linework and script lettering across the upper back, covered in clear plastic wrap.
Lettered awareness ribbon on a back
Close-up of a black serif lettering tattoo reading 'and to wonder what was going to happen next' across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Quote tattoo on the upper chest
Black serif lettering on a forearm reading so it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive, in a Lettering style on the forearm.
Serif quote tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey script lettering reading Stronger Than Ever, with Day After Day beneath it, across the upper chest.
Stronger Than Ever script lettering across chest
Close photo of the word COURAGE above FEAR in lettering split by a horizontal line on the wrist, with part of a leaf tattoo visible above it.
Courage and fear lettering on a wrist
Black lettering reading To die will be an awfully big adventure above an outlined star tattoo on a forearm.
Quote and star on a forearm
Two photos of black script lettering on a leg, one reading I'm fine on the lower leg and one reading save me on the ankle, both shown upside down.
Script lettering reading I'm fine and save me
Black ink tattoo of the HTML tags </head> and <body> in handwritten lettering on the back of a neck.
HTML head and body tags on the neck
Black lettering tattoo reading We're all mad here runs diagonally along a forearm, set in a simple, even sans serif style.
We're all mad here lettering on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Never don't give up across the inner upper arm, in a lettering style.
Script lettering reading Never don't give up
Two photographs of fine line black tattoos: thin cursive script along the ribs on the left, and an outlined city skyline with a line of text on the back of the neck on the right.
Script on ribs and skyline outline on neck
Two-panel photo of black script lettering tattoos: the upper panel reads 'You either die a hero or you live long enough' on the side of the torso, and the lower panel reads 'To see yourself become the
Two script quote tattoos on the side and neck
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, with swirling flourishes, across the top of a foot.
Quote lettering with swirls across a foot
Close-up of dark ink stylised lettering on the inner wrist, beside a woven friendship bracelet and a silver peace sign pendant.
Stylised lettering on inner wrist
Black and white photo of the word faith in a serif typewriter style lettering tattoo on the inner forearm of a person in a leather jacket.
Faith lettering on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading We're all stories in the end, Just make it a good one, across the back, partly under a lace bra.
Quote tattoo across the lower back
Tattoo of the words Not all who wander are lost in script above a mountain range, on the upper back near the shoulder.
Mountain range with quote on shoulder
Close-up of a fine black lettering tattoo on the inner forearm showing latitude and longitude coordinates in a clean sans-serif typeface.
Latitude and longitude coordinates on a forearm
Black and white photo of a fine script tattoo reading For whoever finds Me finds Life, Proverbs 8:35, on the upper shoulder near the collarbone.
Proverbs 8:35 script on a shoulder
Black line tattoo on a forearm reading 'You were meant for amazing things' above an adult elephant with a semicolon on its body and a small calf walking beside it.
Quote and elephants on a forearm
Close-up of a shaved head beside an ear, with the lettering tattoo Leave a Coment Below in black ink across the scalp above the ear.
Text tattoo reading Leave a Coment Below on a shaved head
Small black handwritten tattoo reading PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT on a forearm, with an open hand resting on a white marble surface.
Handwritten quote on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo forming a leaping rabbit silhouette across a person's upper back, in a lettering style with flowing script.
Rabbit silhouette formed from lettering on a back
Black and grey shaded cross tattoo with cracked-stone detailing and flowing script lettering on the upper thigh.
Shaded cross with script quote on thigh
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm showing an axe embedded in a tree stump beside a small animal, with the words K is for Kate beneath it.
K is for Kate with an axe and stump
Fine line script tattoo reading bind my wandering heart to thee in black ink across the inner forearm.
Script quote on the inner forearm