Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black script tattoo reading 13.elieve on the top of a foot near the ankle, beside a crystal-studded sandal strap.
13.elieve script on the top of a foot
Hand-drawn black ink design of an anchor with the words I refuse to sink curving around it in a loop, sketched on textured paper.
Anchor with I refuse to sink lettering
Two matching thigh tattoos with black lines and lettering reading Goodnight nobody and Goodnight mush, the second beside a coloured bowl with a spoon.
Matching thigh tattoos: Goodnight nobody and a bowl
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background reading love all, trust a few, do wrong to none, in a Lettering style with no body placement shown.
Three-line script quote, love all, trust a few
Black linework flash design of a ribbon banner wrapped around a dagger with a ring handle, reading I'M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT.
Banner reading I'm getting too old for this
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm, with a quote running beside a shaded drawing of a figure in a cloak on a rock.
Quote and cloaked figure on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading Don't dream your life live your dream along the inside of a forearm, with a hand resting on white fabric.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Thy will be done, running diagonally across the upper arm.
Thy will be done script on upper arm
Black and white photo of a woman with long hair seen from behind, with a fine line script tattoo reading La vita è bella on her upper back near the shoulder.
Script quote on upper back
Dotwork drawing of a lotus flower in black stipple above three lines of italic text, shown as a tattoo design with no body visible.
Stippled lotus flower with quote
Black ink fine line tattoo of an open book with lettering and a cup of coffee on a saucer, placed on the side of the torso above the hip.
Open book with library quote and coffee cup
Fine line black script tattoo reading 'we part only to meet again' across the inner forearm, near the wrist.
Script quote on the wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading 'Though she be but little, she is fierce' in mixed block capitals and script on the upper arm, in a lettering style.
Quote lettering on upper arm
Fine line tattoo of a hand reaching out beside a half-filled sun on a shoulder, with a black and grey hand and the words NEVER TALK on the upper arm below.
Fine line hand and sun on shoulder
Black and grey script lettering reading Taste this kitty on the hip, just above the line of a bikini bottom.
Script lettering on a hip
Traditional style tattoo of a red heart with a yellow NOTHANKS banner, yellow flowers and dark green leaves on the lower leg.
Traditional heart with NOTHANKS banner and flowers
Close photo of a single-colour lettering tattoo reading Go then, there are other worlds than these in a serif typeface across the forearm.
Quote tattoo in serif lettering on forearm
Fine line black script reading not all those who wander are lost, with three small birds above it, across a woman's upper chest near the collarbone.
Birds and script quote across the collarbone
Black lettering tattoo reading NORMAL: PEOPLE SCARE ME across a forearm, set against a blurred green outdoor background.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Black and grey flash sheet of nine traditional-style tattoo designs, including a rose with a banner, a skull with crossed shovels, a boombox and two bold character heads.
Black and grey traditional flash sheet
Fine line black tattoo on a forearm showing a UFO beaming up a figure above cacti and Joshua trees, with the words I WANT TO LEAVE below.
UFO and desert scene with lettering on a forearm
Fine line black outline tattoo of a lion cub with orange shading and the script words Remember who you are, on the side of a torso above a waistband.
Lion cub and script quote on the side ribs
Black and grey shaded butterfly tattoo on the upper back, with a handwritten quote in black script reading I'm a walking travesty but I'm smiling at everything.
Butterfly and handwritten quote on upper back
Black and grey script lettering reading Each day is a gift not a given right across the upper back, shown from behind with blonde hair and a knitted scarf.
Script quote across upper back
Traditional style flash design of a red heart with the words WELL FUCK, a red flower and two dark teal leaves on a cream background.
Traditional heart with flower and leaves
Black lettering reading "send me" in a typewriter-style font across a forearm, with a faint blurred tattoo visible at the top left.
"send me" lettering on a forearm
Close photo of a thin black fine line script tattoo reading without struggle there is no progress, sitting on the side of the torso near a dark waistband.
Handwritten quote tattoo on the side torso
Black and white photo of two hands held together, with Mrs in script on one finger and Mr in block lettering on the neighbouring finger, both on the hand.
Mrs and Mr lettering on two fingers
Black script lettering tattoo across a woman's upper back and shoulder blade, with a long braid falling over her left shoulder.
Script quote tattoo across upper back
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading "to be loved; to be in love" in a typewriter-style font, placed on the side of the torso above a dark waistband.
"To be loved; to be in love" lettering on the side
Black fine line script tattoo reading We shall never part, running diagonally across a shoulder and upper back, shown in two close-up photographs.
We shall never part script on shoulder
A clenched fist with blue-grey blackletter-style lettering reading CATS MEOW across the knuckles, with a turquoise painted fingernail on the thumb below.
Cats Meow lettering across knuckles
Black and grey sewing machine, dress form and buttons with a red flower and a banner reading POR VIDA, tattooed on a forearm, in a traditional style.
Sewing machine and dress form on a forearm
Woman seen from behind with a black lettering tattoo in Gurmukhi script across her upper back, between the shoulder blades.
Gurmukhi script across upper back
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line rhyming poem across the upper back, close to the shoulder blade.
Four-line poem script on upper back
Collage of five black tattoos in fine line and lettering, including a quote on the ribs, the number 9 3/4 on a wrist, a cat on the hip and a face on the forearm.
Five small black tattoos: quotes, a cat and a face
Black fine line script tattoo on the side of the ribs reading two lines of text, Live without the sunlight and Love without your heartbeat.
Script quote along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of a Van Gogh quote set in a simple hand-drawn typeface, running down the shin or calf.
Van Gogh quote on a lower leg
Black script lettering reading Pain is inevitable suffering is optional, with fine flourishes, across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote on upper back
Close photo of a small black fine line tattoo of Roman numerals X.VII.XV running diagonally across the inner wrist, with a silver ring on the hand above.
Roman numerals on the inner wrist
Black typewriter-font lettering tattoo of a quote running in stacked lines down the side of the ribs.
Typewriter-font quote down the side of the ribs
Black Arabic script lettering tattoo running down the middle of a woman's back, seen from behind in a black open-back top.
Arabic script tattoo down a back
Black traditional-style swallow flying on a plain light background, with the words NOT ONE WILL FALL in capitals beneath it.
Swallow in flight with lettering
Two fine line robin tattoos with red breasts on a lower abdomen, one beside the small word hmm.
Two robins on a lower abdomen
Close-up of a small black lettering tattoo running along the side of a person's hip and upper thigh, in a fine, neat style.
Small black lettering on the hip
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading 'It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live' on a thigh.
Script quote on a thigh
Black lettering tattoo reading 'for a minute there, I lost myself' in a typewriter-style font on an upper arm, shown in a close-up beside a photo of a person in a knitted jumper.
Typewriter-style quote tattoo on an upper arm
Black script lettering tattoo on skin, reading Born to bleed, Fighting to succeed, Built to endure and What this world, running down a limb.
Black script quote across a limb