Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey fine line lettering tattoo of a three-line quote in cursive script across the inner wrist.
Script quote on the inner wrist
Black Arabic script with the English line be at peace, not in pieces beneath it, shown as a lettering design on a white background.
Arabic and English peace quote
Black line drawing of a curved banner in lettering style, reading Life's not out to get you, shown in white on a navy background.
Banner with lettering reading Life's not out to get you
Black script lettering reading Nothing lasts forever, Nothing stays the same, in a fine line lettering style across the upper back.
Script quote across the upper back
Fine line black script tattoo reading "Love me for who i am" across the upper chest, just below the collarbone.
Script quote on upper chest
Black lettering tattoo on a forearm, with the words FLOAT, CATCH, BLEED, DEATH, STIFF and PUSH stacked in a staggered column in a simple sans serif.
Six stacked words on a forearm
Dark purple block capitals reading BEST DAY EVER on the inner forearm near the wrist, with a white rose lying beside the arm.
Best day ever lettering on a wrist
Black script lettering reading 'What doesn't kill you. Only makes you stronger' across the side of a hip and upper thigh.
Script quote tattoo on the hip
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, placed on the upper thigh of a person in a denim shirt.
Script quote tattoo on the upper thigh
Close-up of a dark script lettering tattoo reading We All Fall Down Sometimes, with a small outlined scalloped star below, on a limb.
We All Fall Down Sometimes lettering on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake, set vertically along the upper back.
Typewriter quote down the upper back
Black line drawing of the words GET AWAY FROM ME, with each letter set on a thin stem with small leaves, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Get away from me lettering on stems
Black script lettering tattoo running across the outer thigh, photographed in a bedroom with a red garment over the hip.
Script lettering across a thigh
Fine black fine-line tattoo on the inner wrist reading "we're alright though" in typewriter lettering, with a safety pin and five tally marks beneath it.
Quote and safety pin on the inner wrist
Blue lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird." in a lettering style.
Mockingbird quote on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo on the top of a foot, with a Mickey Mouse head outline beside the words Where Dreams Come True in lettering style.
Mickey Mouse outline and quote on the foot
Black script tattoo reading A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, with small birds beneath, on a person's ribs.
Quote and small birds on the ribs
Black and grey photo of a small serif lettering tattoo reading Be. on the inner wrist of a raised hand with dark painted nails.
Small serif word Be. on a wrist
Lettering tattoo on an upper back reading "Can we create something beautiful and destroy it?" with red roses and stems in a botanical style.
Quote script and red roses on upper back
Close view of a black script lettering tattoo on the right side of the ribs, above a gold waist chain, with a beige bralette visible at the top of the frame.
Script lettering tattoo on the ribs
Close-up of a lettering tattoo reading 'Laters, baby' in a dark red script on the lower back, with a hand resting above it.
Laters, baby lettering on lower back
Close-up of a black fine line script tattoo reading 'your story isn't over yet;' across the upper chest, with a black choker at the neck.
Script quote on the upper chest
Black and grey photo of two fingers on a hand, each with the phrase til my dying day in script lettering across the finger.
Til my dying day script on two fingers
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' along a forearm, with a blurred background.
Script phrase on a forearm
Close photo of black block lettering reading MADE IN ENGLAND on pale skin, with a dark feathery design beside it, held by two hands.
Made in England lettering on a limb
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a person's upper back, reading Words, are our most inexhaustible source of magic, set in a serif typeface below the shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo on the upper back
Small black typewriter-style word oops tattooed on the top joint of an index finger, photographed on an open palm.
Small word tattoo on an index finger
Black and grey fine line eye inside a triangle with small text around it on the upper arm, and 'be strong girl' lettering on the ribs.
Eye in triangle and 'be strong girl' lettering
Black lettering design on a white background reading "to the moon and back" in English, with the Arabic translation above it, in a Lettering style.
Arabic and English "to the moon and back" script
Black script lettering reading If you're a bird, I'm a bird, with small flying bird silhouettes, tattooed on the back of a neck.
Bird quote script on the back of the neck
Black and white photo of a black script tattoo reading alis volat propriis along the side of the ribs, in a lettering style.
Latin script phrase along the ribs
Black and grey Roman numeral tattoo on a forearm beside a fine serif lettering tattoo on another forearm, outdoors in green grass.
Matching Roman numeral and lettering forearm tattoos
Black brush-script lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway on off-white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Brush lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway
Black fine line script quote tattooed along the upper thigh, with a small outlined bird and a red heart below the text.
Quote and bird on a thigh
Black lettering tattoo reading I swear we were infinite across the top of a bare foot on sand, in a lettering style and placed on the foot.
Quote tattoo across the top of a foot
Black script lettering tattoo reading 'He is jealous for me' across a forearm, set against a blue background.
Script quote 'He is jealous for me' on a forearm
Gold lips design above the words Kiss Here in gold script on a plain white background, shown as a flat design with no body placement.
Gold lips with Kiss Here script
Black and grey script lettering reading All God's Angels Come To Us Disguised across the ribs, in a lettering style with a fine, even stroke.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black serif lettering tattoo reading 'We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness' on the upper body.
Serif quote tattoo on skin
Close-up of a black ink lettering tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates on a shoulder, above a grey top.
Coordinates tattoo on a shoulder
Black ink lettering tattoo on a lower leg, styled as a handwritten list of short phrases in a post-apocalyptic theme.
Handwritten list tattoo on a calf
Black lettering tattoo reading One foot in the grave on the calf of a leg, shown next to a prosthetic leg with a trainer on the foot.
Quote lettering on a calf beside a prosthetic leg
Close-up of a fine line script lettering tattoo running along the inside of a forearm, with a crystal-encrusted bracelet worn on the wrist.
Small script line tattoo on a forearm
Dark distressed block lettering reading SUCK IT UP across a forearm just above the wrist, with a clenched fist at the top of the frame.
Suck It Up block lettering on a forearm
Black fine lettering reading "I am." in a typewriter-style serif on the side of a person's ankle and foot.
"I am." lettering on the ankle
Black lettering reading 'To die will be an awfully big adventure' above a thin outlined eight-pointed star, tattooed on a forearm in a lettering style.
Quote and star on a forearm
Small colour tattoo on the inner wrist of a hand showing a red medical alert star of life beside the black lettering DIABETIC TYPE 1.
Diabetic type 1 medical alert tattoo on a wrist
Black script tattoo of the words 'The pain you feel today... is the strength you feel tomorrow' across the lower back, just above a waistband.
Script quote tattoo across the lower back