Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey tattoo on a forearm showing a solid bat emblem between two lines of rotated lettering, one reading why do we fall and the other so we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Bat emblem and quote on a forearm
Two forearms pressed together, each with a black script tattoo: one reads Every Saint Has A Past and the other Every Sinner Has A Future.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Close-up of black script lettering reading Gum Dumpster tattooed on the inner lower lip, with fingers holding the lip open.
Script lettering on the inner lower lip
Black script lettering reading Never let your fear decide your fate, a lettering tattoo across the forearm.
Script quote tattoo on forearm
Black and grey abstract tattoo on an upper arm with two figures, a clock face, a flower and a vertical red stripe.
Abstract figures, clock and flower on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading I refuse to sink with a small anchor and a swirl, on the top of a foot, in a lettering style.
I refuse to sink lettering with anchor on a foot
Black and grey realism tattoo on the forearm of a man with swept-back hair in a dark jacket, his hands gripping the lapels beneath a banner reading THE KING IS DEAD.
Black and grey portrait with banner on forearm
Black sun burst with a pentagram in a circle at its centre and the words I EXORCISE NOT EXERCISE arranged around it, drawn on a plain light grey background.
I exorcise, not exercise sun and pentagram
Black and white photo of three lines of fine cursive script tattooed across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Three lines of script across upper back
Black lettering on a forearm reading "A book is a loaded gun", set in a plain serif typeface in a lettering style on the inner forearm.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading 525,600 Minutes on the inner wrist and lower forearm.
525,600 Minutes lettering on a wrist
Traditional-style anchor tattoo with a blue bow at the top and the words live free in script, shown in close-up on skin.
Anchor with blue bow and live free script
Black and grey flash design of three shaded feathers at different angles, with the script line I may not see you, but I can feel you running between them.
Three feathers with script quote
Black ink tattoo of a mountain range above a script quote on a person's upper back, shown in a close photo.
Mountain peaks and script quote on the back
Black and grey realism tattoo of over-ear headphones with a trailing cable and the script words Addicted to music, on the inner forearm.
Headphones and script on a forearm
Two photos of forearm tattoos: the top shows the words Home is where your heart is in a dark serif font, and the bottom shows a black and grey cursive line of script.
Quote tattoos on the forearm
Black script lettering reading everyone deserves the chance to fly, tattooed along the side of a ribcage above a teal bra.
Script quote along the ribs
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
Two forearm tattoos in black and grey, a guillotine on the left arm with the words KEEP YOUR CHIN UP and a noose on a gallows on the right arm with the words HANG IN THERE.
Guillotine and gallows on two forearms
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
Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh of a hand shake with a snake biting the wrist, above the words Trust No One.
Snake and handshake with Trust No One lettering
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
Mixed colour tattoo on a forearm showing a shaded woman's face with lips, overlapping teal and red triangles, watercolour splashes and a beaded necklace.
Woman's face with geometric triangles on a forearm
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
Colour tattoo of a red rose in a blue stained glass dome with a gold banner reading Tale as old as time, on the outer thigh.
Stained glass rose with banner on thigh