Text tattoo ideas

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

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Colour tattoo of Captain America's shield with a white star on the inner forearm, above the words Sometimes you have to believe that heroes exist.
Captain America shield with quote on forearm
Black script lettering tattoo running down the outer leg from the upper thigh towards the knee, shown in a lettering style.
Script lettering running down a leg
Black handwritten script lettering on white reading 'What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger', shown as a lettering design with no body placement visible.
Handwritten quote, What doesn't kill you
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I am burdened with glorious purpose runs along the side of a torso, shown in two stacked photographs.
Typewriter quote along the side of the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of a long passage about passion running vertically down the side of a torso over the ribs.
Passion quote lettering down the side
Fine line black tattoo of a stylised bird above the words remember who you are running down a forearm, with a studded bracelet on the wrist.
Bird outline and script on a forearm
Black and grey fine line lettering reading 'i love you to the moon and back' with a small crescent moon on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Moon and quote on the inner wrist
Black block lettering reading STAY ALIVE with a small line symbol beneath it, tattooed on the inside of a wrist in a simple lettering style.
Stay Alive lettering on a wrist
Raised fist showing a wrist design of black and pink lettering reading I'm with Lucy's hen party, with a pink cocktail glass beneath.
Hen party lettering and cocktail glass on wrist
Black hand-drawn lettering design of phrases arranged in the shape of a cross, shown as a flash-style tattoo design on a white background.
Text cross lettering design
Fine line black script tattoo reading "Smile" on the side of a woman's torso below her shoulder, shown in a close photo of her bare back.
Small script word "Smile" on a ribcage
Black script reading "in a world of my own" with a leaf stroke, running into an outlined daisy on a forearm, in a fine line lettering and botanical style.
Script quote and daisy on a forearm
Black handwritten script reading "i love you to the moon and back" with a small black crescent moon on the inner wrist, in a lettering style.
Quote and crescent moon on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading Vienna waits for you in cursive script on the inner wrist, shown against a patterned rug.
Script quote reading Vienna waits for you on a wrist
Close-up of a typewriter-style quote, 'Art Is The Weapon Imagination IS The Ammunition', in black ink with multicoloured watercolour splashes on the ribs.
Quote with watercolour splashes on the ribs
Handwritten script reading "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, ok?" beside a blue TARDIS tattoo on the upper chest.
Quote and TARDIS on the upper chest
Black and white photo of a fine-line lettering tattoo reading abis volat propriis on the lower back, above a dark waistband.
Latin script line tattoo on lower back
Black script lettering reading How we survive is what makes us who we are, tattooed across the ribs with some redness around it.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I'll be one tough act to follow runs along the inner forearm.
Quote lettering along a forearm
Black script lettering on a forearm reads I looked in the mirror, & Decided to stay, set against patterned fabric.
Script quote on a forearm
Black ink tattoo across a person's upper back showing the words JUST DO IT in bold block capitals above a large solid black swoosh curve, in a lettering style.
Just Do It lettering and swoosh on a back
Black hand-lettered tattoo reading DO NOT RESUSCITATE on the upper chest, with a striped shirt being held open around it.
Do Not Resuscitate lettering on a chest
Black script lettering reading Soul Sister on the lower back, shown on two people side by side in a black and white photo.
Matching Soul Sister script tattoos
Close-up of a black typewriter-style tattoo reading don't blink on the upper chest near the collarbone, with blonde hair and a grey top visible.
Don't blink lettering on the upper chest
Black handwritten script tattoo reading What We Do In Life and Echoes In Eternity across the side of the ribs.
Two-line quote in script on the side ribs
Black script lettering tattoo on the back of a hand, which rests on a black object wrapped in plastic.
Script lettering tattoo on the hand
Black lettering tattoo on a person's upper back reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with scrolled flourishes above and below and an attribution to e.e. cummings.
Quote lettering across upper back
Black Arabic script reading Just breathe, with the English translation in a typewriter-style serif beneath, on a plain white background.
Arabic lettering reading Just breathe
Black and white photo of a vertical line of runic-style lettering tattooed along the side of a person's torso, in a fine line lettering style.
Vertical runic lettering along the side of the torso
Black lettering tattoo in script reading God Is A Awesome God, curved across the upper chest below the collarbones, shown in two stacked photos.
Script phrase across the upper chest
Black blackletter lettering in four lines runs down the side of a torso, forming a quote about hope beneath it all.
Blackletter quote along the side ribs
Back of a person's neck with vertical rainbow stripe tattoo above black block lettering reading NOT CRYING ON SUNDAYS.
Rainbow stripes and lettering on the neck
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading "i felt free" on a person's shoulder, with a black strap and a thin chain visible.
"i felt free" script on shoulder
Black and white photo of a forearm with a quote tattooed in black serif lettering, with a band of symbols near the wrist.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a cowboy riding a galloping horse beside the words cow girls don't cry ride baby ride, on a person's upper back.
Rodeo rider on horseback with lettering on upper back
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line quote running along the side of a person's hip or upper thigh.
Script quote tattoo along the side of the hip
Black fine line tattoo on a forearm of a paper plane with a dashed flight path looping beneath it and the words Act on your impulse running along the path.
Paper plane and dashed flight path on forearm
Woman seen from behind with a black fine line script tattoo running vertically down the side of her back, placed beside her shoulder blade.
Fine script lettering down the back
Black typewriter-style lettering reading 'we live with the scars we choose' on the side of the torso.
Typewriter quote tattoo on the side
Black script lettering tattoo on the outer thigh, set in four lines of text reading a quote about forgiveness.
Quote lettering on a thigh
Black pixel-style lettering reading HM04 on the inner upper arm of a flexed arm, against a dark blind backdrop.
Pixel lettering HM04 on upper arm
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading 'my story isn't over' with semicolons, placed on the inner wrist of a raised fist.
Semicolon quote on the inner wrist
Black script lettering reading I'll never give up, I'm a fighter across the inner upper arm, with a few small red marks near the text.
Script quote on the upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading pura in a clean sans serif, set vertically down the back of a person's neck.
Vertical word tattoo on the back of the neck
Black lettering in a typewriter-style font reading find what you love and let it kill you, tattooed along a forearm.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a quotation with the attribution Dr. M.L.K jr, set in lines down the inner forearm.
Quotation lettering on a forearm
Black script lettering tattoo reading Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today, across a forearm in a black and grey style.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Two photos of black script lettering tattoos: "I'm fine" on the back of a leg, and "save me" on an ankle.
"I'm fine" and "save me" script tattoos