Text tattoo ideas

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

What will it cost? Try the tattoo cost calculator
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading I lost myself in us across the upper back, near the shoulder blade, with red hair falling over the shoulder.
Script quote across upper back
Black and grey script lettering tattoo of a motivational paragraph across the outer thigh, shown in a black and white photo with denim shorts.
Block quote tattoo on the thigh
Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh showing a red snake, a blade, a lightning bolt, a red rose and a banner reading They Make A Master Of Death.
Snake, rose and banner on a thigh
Cheshire Cat grin tattoo with teal eyes and a pink nose, with the words we're all mad here beneath it, on pale skin.
Cheshire Cat grin with teal eyes
Black script lettering reading 'for those I love I will sacrifice' across the upper thigh, beside denim shorts.
Script quote across the upper thigh
Black fine line tattoo on the inner forearm showing a city skyline with a domed building, a bridge and a line of lettering beneath.
Skyline line art with lettering on forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading There is no love without forgiveness, running vertically along the side of a bare back and ribs.
Fine line script quote along the back
Black and grey blackletter lettering reading REGRET NOTHING across the upper arm.
Regret nothing lettering on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a shaded feather with silhouetted birds rising from its tip and the text Isaiah 40:31 beneath it, on the side of the torso.
Feather and flying birds with scripture on flank
Black script lettering on a forearm reading She dreamed of paradise, every time she closed her eyes, set against a purple patterned background.
Script quote on a forearm
Black script lettering reading For we live by faith, not by sight, running diagonally across the side of the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Close photograph of the sole of a foot with the words MADE IN ENGLAND tattooed in black capital letters, styled as lettering, held by two hands.
Made in England lettering on the sole of a foot
Fine black capital lettering reading TONY HAWK on the lower back, in a black and white photo with a dark top and black thong visible.
Small TONY HAWK lettering on lower back
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
Pencil drawing of a Cheshire Cat style grin and whiskered face with blue-green eyes, above the words we're all mad here, with no body placement shown.
Cheshire Cat grin with blue-green eyes
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
Fine line black tattoo on the inner wrist showing a heartbeat line that forms a cross and ends in a heart, with small text reading faith, hope and love below.
Heartbeat cross and heart on a wrist
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
Black ink skull above the words DEAD MEN DON'T BITE, tattooed on the upper arm of a person wearing a grey t-shirt.
Skull with Dead Men Don't Bite on upper arm
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
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a cratered full moon on a shoulder, with the words LA LUNA in small capitals above it.
Moon with La Luna text on shoulder
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 fine line tattoo of a UFO above mountains and pine trees, with the words The truth is out there, on the back of a lower leg.
UFO, mountains and pines on a calf