Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black script lettering reading 'What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger' across the outer thigh, shown in a black and white photo.
Script quote on a thigh
Close-up of a small fine line script tattoo reading Let it be in black ink on the side of the ribs.
Let it be script on the side ribs
Three small black star tattoos on the upper chest of a person in a purple top, with a photographed book page above in a fine line style.
Three small star tattoos on the upper chest
Black line drawing of a hand-lettered quote reading "But I crumble completely when you cry." in a lettering style, with broken, crumbling letterforms, on a white background.
Hand-lettered quote in black line
Black sans-serif lettering reading where is my mind? tattooed across a shaved area at the back of a head, in a lettering style, with hair in buns.
Where is my mind lettering on the back of the head
Two people in bikini bottoms show matching small black lettering tattoos of latitude and longitude figures on their hips.
Matching coordinate tattoos on hips
Fine line black script tattoo reading Love me for who I am with a small heart at the end, on the inner forearm.
Love me for who I am script on a forearm
Purple cross-stitch style lettering with a needle and thread tattooed across the upper back, in a lettering style.
Cross-stitch lettering with needle and thread
Black script lettering on an arm reads 'Our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean', in a lettering style.
Wave quote lettering on an arm
Black and grey tattoo design of a crossed bow and arrow with scrolling flourishes, with the words Skin of a Lady and Heart of a Hunter running along the arrow shaft.
Crossed bow and arrow with quote lettering
Woman seen from behind with a small black fine line script tattoo between her shoulder blades, near the neckline of a white halter top.
Small script tattoo between the shoulder blades
Colour tattoo of purple and blue butterflies framing a script quote about wings and flying, shown in two photos of skin.
Butterflies with a script quote about wings
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading unfold your wings across the upper chest and collarbone area.
Unfold your wings script across upper chest
Black serif lettering reading peace will win and fear will lose across two lines on the forearm.
Peace will win, fear will lose on a forearm
White ink tattoo reading "We're all mad here" in decorative capitals across an arm, with a patterned fabric sleeve visible at the left.
"We're all mad here" lettering on an arm
Flash design of a pin-up woman in a red polka-dot bikini with cherries, stars and CHERRY BOMB banners, in traditional style, with no body placement shown.
Cherry Bomb pin-up with cherries and banners
Realistic chest tattoo of a five-point star with torn skin edges revealing the verse Daniel 12:3 inside, with red accents at the tears.
Torn-skin star with Daniel 12:3 on the chest
Black and white photo of the words All monsters are human in a typewriter-style font tattooed on the inner forearm, with a checked shirt sleeve rolled up above it.
All monsters are human lettering on a forearm
Close-up of black and grey gothic lettering reading STAY TRUE across the knuckles of two hands, with shaded letterforms and a dark background.
STAY TRUE knuckle lettering
Black and grey flowing script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross, drawn on pale paper as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Script lettering arranged as a cross
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading We live with the scars we choose on the lower back of a person lying on a bed.
Script quote tattoo on lower back
Black line tattoo on the calf of a skeleton beside a RIP headstone, with a speech bubble reading CAN I PET YOUR DOG PLEASSSE.
Skeleton asking to pet a dog on a calf
Black and grey lettering tattoos reading Peace will win on one thigh and Fear will lose on the other, shown on a person wearing denim shorts and a grey top.
Peace will win and fear will lose on thighs
Two arms intertwined, showing fine line script tattoos reading I walk the line on an upper arm and Because your mine on a forearm, in a sepia photo.
Script text on two forearms
Black lettering reading EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT, framed by green leaf sprigs on each side, shown on skin.
Quote lettering with leaf sprigs
Black lettering tattoo on the thigh showing a buck symbol inside an outlined heart, with a quote about ducks, trucks and buck beneath it.
Buck heart and quote on a thigh
Colour tattoo across a person's upper back showing a uterus with pink flowers, a banner reading My Uterus and the words Is Beautiful, with a rainbow vulva design below.
Uterus, flowers and banner on a back
Black lettering tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates running along the outer side of a foot, with black toenail polish visible.
Coordinates tattoo along the side of a foot
Two side-by-side photos of black lettering tattoos on the back of a neck, reading you see all my light and and you love my dark, in a serif typeface.
Two-line quote tattoo on the back of the neck
Two photos of black ink lettering tattoos: one on the back of a lower leg, one on an ankle, with the words shown upside down in the frame.
Upside-down words on leg and ankle
Colour tattoo of a green leafy bundle with white flowers and a banner reading I found within me an invincible summer, on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Leafy banner with quote on a shoulder blade
Red handwritten script tattoo reading Let's Rock on the inner wrist and forearm, shown in a lettering style.
Let's Rock script on a wrist
Black and grey tattoo of the words Carpe Diem beside a shaded feather that breaks into flying birds, on the outer thigh.
Carpe Diem script with feather and birds
Black script reading too beautiful for earth with a shaded grey angel wing, tattooed on the inside of a wrist.
Too beautiful for earth script and wing on a wrist
Forearm tattoo of the words Made in Oregon in green script inside a black outline of the state of Oregon.
Made in Oregon script in a state outline on forearm
Black and grey photo of two inner wrists, one with the word past and the other with the word future, both in a simple serif lettering style.
Past and future lettering on wrists
Fine line black script reading Take these broken wings and learn to fly, curving down the ribs beside a small bird silhouette.
Script quote and bird on ribs
Collage of small black fine line tattoos drawn from classic books, shown on upper arms, forearms, shoulders and backs.
Literary tattoos on arms and backs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Fear, display none, on a person's forearm, with a fine code-like phrase across the skin.
CSS display none lettering on forearm
Black and grey ink drawing of a Weeping Angel statue with wings spread and hands over its face, with DON'T BLINK lettering below, shown as a tattoo design.
Weeping Angel with Don't Blink lettering
Black script lettering reading You see all my light and You accept all my dark, paired with a black and white yin and yang symbol design.
Yin and yang with script quote
Fine line black script tattoo reading We need never be hopeless, running diagonally along the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Red stamp-style lettering reading SAVEMONEY inside a rectangular border, tattooed on the inside of a forearm against a green and yellow background.
SAVEMONEY stamp lettering on a forearm
Black and grey realism portrait of a man in sunglasses with block lettering and red splashes, tattooed on a forearm.
Portrait and lettering sleeve on a forearm
Black and grey serif lettering reading OMNIA CAUSA FIUNT, set in stacked diagonal lines across a person's upper arm.
Latin phrase on upper arm
Black script lettering reading "This too shall pass" across the upper chest of a woman in a dark low-cut top, styled in a flowing lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Realism-style red poppy with green stem and black script reading Always with Me, tattooed on a forearm near the wrist.
Red poppy and script on a forearm
Black script reading Galatians 2:20 beside a small black cross tattoo on the inside of an ankle.
Cross and Galatians 2:20 script on an ankle