Text tattoo ideas

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

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Two photos of black lettering tattoos: 'I'm fine' on the outer thigh and 'save me' on the lower leg, both in a handwritten script style.
I'm fine and save me lettering on legs
Black handwritten lettering reading "I'm fine" on a forearm, with a hand and silver ring visible at the lower left.
"I'm fine" handwritten lettering on an arm
Close view of a black script lettering tattoo on the side of a torso, cut off at the bottom of the frame, with a red circle and arrow drawn over it.
Script word tattoo on side of torso
Black lettering tattoo on the side of the ribs reading We bury the ones we love and burn the rest, with the word burn in a heavy, flame-like style.
Quote lettering on the ribs
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading We are all broken, that's how the light gets in, set in a typewriter-style font.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black ink tattoo on a shoulder blade showing a feather dissolving into flying birds, with script reading Always on my mind Forever in my heart.
Feather and birds with script on shoulder
Black fine line script tattoo reading Good Vibes on the side of a torso, with a knitted jumper pulled across the left of the frame.
Good Vibes script on the side ribs
Black blackletter lettering tattooed one letter per finger on two hands, resting on a dark leather surface.
Blackletter letters across fingers
Black script lettering reading "P.S. You will always be my Baby girl" tattooed on the outer thigh of a person in denim shorts and a lion print t-shirt.
Script quote on the outer thigh
Close view of a fine line black script tattoo reading "we found love" on the inner forearm of a person whose hand rests nearby.
"We found love" script on forearm
Black script lettering arranged in a heart outline with a small red heart at its centre, tattooed on a person's side above the ribs.
Script words forming a heart on the side
Black and grey tattoo of a bird with a raised wing beside the words books and cleverness in serif lettering, shown on skin.
Bird and books and cleverness lettering
Black and grey realistic compass tattoo on a chest, appearing to break through cracked skin that reveals fragments of lettering.
Compass breaking through skin on a chest
Black script lettering reading Not all those who wander are lost across the side of a foot, with dark painted toenails.
Quote tattoo along the side of a foot
Black serif text tattoo reading "The best parts of me are hidden." across the outer upper thigh, with a hand holding red shorts.
Quote tattoo on upper thigh
Black semicolon tattoo on an arm with the words 'My story isn't over yet' in black serif lettering, the word 'isn't' picked out in red.
Semicolon with 'My story isn't over yet' on an arm
Fine line black lettering reading type one above a row of small chevron symbols on the inner wrist.
Type one lettering with chevrons on wrist
Thin black handwritten lettering reading kill the king across the inner wrist of a palm-up forearm, in a fine line lettering style.
Kill the king script on inner wrist
Thin black capital lettering reading EXCELSIOR on the wrist above a hand with blue painted nails, set against a pale turquoise background.
Excelsior lettering on a wrist
Two matching black lettering tattoos reading 477,800 in a simple script, one on a forearm in the foreground and one on the skin behind it near a swimsuit.
Matching 477,800 number tattoos
Black Arabic script lettering tattooed along the side of the ribs, with a hand resting over it and a jewelled ring.
Arabic script tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey photo of two feet in sandals with the words Don't Panic tattooed in typewriter-style lettering across the tops of the feet.
Don't Panic lettering across both feet
Close view of a small fine line black script phrase and a thin vertical line motif on a woman's upper chest, with a blue cardigan partly open.
Fine line script and motif on chest
Black typewriter-style lettering reading "too much heart" across the upper back between the shoulder blades, in a Lettering style.
"too much heart" lettering on upper back
Black ink drawing of a pair of antlers above a stag-shaped block of handwritten song lyrics on beige paper, a design in lettering style with no body placement shown.
Antlers and handwritten lyrics design
Black and white photo of a lettering tattoo reading we're all stories in the end across the back of a neck, with hair falling around it.
Quote tattoo on the back of the neck
Black lettering tattoo of song lyrics wrapping around the ribs on a side view, with a small bird silhouette in the middle of the text.
Song lyrics tattoo curving across the ribs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I contain multitudes on the inner wrist, photographed with the palm facing up in bright light.
I contain multitudes quote on wrist
Black script tattoo reading i am because you are running diagonally along the inner forearm, in a lettering style.
Script quote on a forearm
Black fine line script reading Let it go with four small flying birds on the outer ankle and foot.
Let it go script and birds on the ankle
Black and white photo of a bare foot with fine line script lettering reading never stop dancing across the top.
Never stop dancing script on a foot
Sepia drawing of a swallow in flight beside cursive script reading and in time, this too shall pass.
Swallow in flight with cursive quote
Black script tattoo reading "It only takes a little push to pull on through" beside a small outlined heart with an eye, on the upper arm.
Heart and eye with script quote on an arm
Close up of a fine line black script tattoo reading With pain comes strength along the ribs of a person wearing a grey sports bra.
Script quote reading With pain comes strength on ribs
Black and grey upper arm tattoo of a handwritten script verse framed around a pale moon, a dark spiral hill and small star sparkles.
Script verse with spiral hill and moon
Handwritten navy lettering reading I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten quote about a leaf on the wind
Black script lettering set in several vertical lines across the upper back, shown in a close-up photograph of the skin.
Vertical script lettering across upper back
Bold black block lettering reading WAL, a star, then MART across the lower back, above jeans and a brown belt.
Bold block lettering across lower back
Black handwritten script lettering tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder, photographed from behind in a car.
Handwritten quote across upper back
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with scrolled flourishes above and below, against blue fabric.
e.e. cummings quote tattoo on the thigh
Black and grey photo of the words wish you were here tattooed in small serif lettering across a forearm.
Wish you were here lettering on a forearm
Colour lettering tattoo spelling Goonies in a red, orange and yellow gradient with dark outlines, above black lettering reading never say die, on skin.
Goonies logo lettering tattoo
Black fine line tattoo of a soldier outline with a serif quote inside the figure, on skin in black ink.
Soldier outline with quote tattoo
Black script lettering tattoo on the lower back reading Where life begins and love never ends, with Family in larger script beneath.
Script quote tattoo reading Family
Black ink tattoo of a cross with the script words Romans 12:2 on skin, in a lettering style; the body placement is not visible.
Cross and Romans 12:2 script lettering
Close-up of a fine line handwritten script tattoo reading "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?" with a small blue TARDIS, on the upper chest.
Handwritten quote and TARDIS on the chest
Black and grey tattoos on both forearms showing a stack of book spines, large quotation marks and lettering, with small sketched flying figures near the wrist.
Book spines and quotes on both forearms
Two arms with black script lettering on the forearms, one reading For them I'd risk it all and the other reading Because of her I will not fall.
Two script quotes on forearms