Word tattoo ideas

2,200 photos and flash · 96% Lettering, 46% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Small black serif lettering reading BRAVE on the outer thigh of a person wearing a white shirt and black top.
Small BRAVE lettering on a thigh
Fine line script lettering reading saved by grace across the inner wrist and forearm, with a silver cuff bracelet beside it.
Saved by grace script on a wrist
Close-up of a small black lettering tattoo reading GIRL POWER on the inner forearm near the wrist, worn with denim shorts and a brown cardigan.
Small girl power lettering on the wrist
Fine line black tattoo of the word faith in script on the inner wrist, with a small cross replacing the letter t and a tiny heart above the i.
Faith script with cross on wrist
Black ink handwritten lettering reading Be still on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Be still handwritten lettering design
Black script tattoo reading Never Again across a limb, with flowing, joined letters and a soft natural skin tone.
Never Again script tattoo on a limb
Black fine line script lettering reading "He Lives" on a plain white background, drawn as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
"He Lives" script lettering design
Close photo of black block-capital lettering reading HEART HOPE tattooed on a lower leg above a sheer ankle sock, in a fine line lettering style.
Heart Hope lettering on a lower leg
Fine line script design spelling the word joy in black ink on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Joy in fine line script
Black fine line tattoo on the forearm of an infinity symbol with three birds in flight above the left loop and the word always in script on the right loop.
Infinity symbol with birds and script 'always'
Black lettering tattoo reading amore with a small heart-shaped arrow on the wrist, worn beside a gold metal watch strap.
Amore script on a wrist
Fine line black arrow tattoo with the script words real or not real across the lower back, shown above a second close view of an arrow with the word real on the upper arm.
Arrow tattoo with real or not real script
Black lettering tattoo of a quote set in short lines running diagonally across the side of a bare back and ribs, with a blue-tinted photo.
Lettering quote along the side of the ribs
Close side view of a fine line black script tattoo on a hip, partly above black lace underwear, with a navel piercing visible.
Cursive script line on a hip
Handwritten fine line lettering reading inspire, with a semicolon in place of the i dot, in black ink on a white background, shown as a design with no placement.
Inspire lettering with semicolon
Black and white photo of a fine line script word, joy, tattooed on a woman's wrist and forearm, with her hand raised near her neck.
Joy script tattoo on the wrist
Black bold script lettering set vertically on a cream background, shown as a lettering design with no skin or body placement visible.
Bold black script lettering, set vertically
Two black script quote tattoos on forearms, reading For them I'll risk it all and Because of her I will not fall, in a fine line style.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Black lettering tattoo reading YOU ARE WHAT YOU LOVE NOT WHO LOVES YOU, with a small crown at each end, running vertically down a lower leg.
Crown and quote tattoo down the shin
Fine line black script lettering reading 'We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us' tattooed along a forearm.
Script quote along a forearm
Two wrists placed side by side, each with black script lettering: No lies on the left and Just love on the right, both on the wrist and forearm area.
Matching script wrist tattoos reading No lies and Just love
Two bare lower backs show black script lettering: To infinity on the left hip and and beyond on the right side, both in fine cursive style.
Script phrases on two sets of hips
Hand-lettered navy script reading 'the ocean cures all' stacked over three lines on a white background, a lettering design suitable as a tattoo stencil.
The ocean cures all lettering design
Fine black cursive script reading namaste across a forearm, photographed against a blurred green background.
Namaste script on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of an outlined heart joined to a heartbeat line that ends in the word family in cursive script, on the top of a foot.
Heartbeat line and family script on a foot
Black fine line script tattoo reading free on the upper arm, and a second script tattoo reading apodyopsis on the thigh.
Fine line script words on arm and thigh
Black fine line tattoo of an infinity symbol with a heart in the loop, three birds in flight and the word Believe in script on skin.
Infinity symbol with birds and Believe
Black script lettering reading "We accept the love we think we deserve" on a forearm, shown in a close photo against a red and blue background.
Script quote on the inner arm
Black and grey typewriter-style lettering reading wanderlust, tattooed on the inner wrist of a hand with dark nail polish, in a black and white photo.
Wanderlust lettering on a wrist
Black fine line script lettering, apparently the word enough, on the inner wrist and forearm of a person with a red and grey string bracelet.
Fine line script word on the inner wrist
Fine line black script tattoo reading faith, with the long crossing stroke forming a cross, on the inner forearm, in black and white.
Script word 'faith' on an inner forearm
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading happiness depends upon ourselves along the left ribs, with a hand holding up a lilac top beside it.
Happiness quote in script on the ribs
Fine line black lettering running diagonally up the inner forearm, set in a thin sans serif typeface and rotated so the text reads vertically.
Rotated sans serif lettering on a forearm
Black and grey photo of the word Blessed in script lettering on the inner wrist and forearm, with a hand gripping from the left.
Blessed script on a wrist
Black script lettering with swirling flourishes reading Kiss Me Where I Pee, tattooed across the lower abdomen above a dark waistband.
Black script lettering with flourishes across the lower
Black fine line script reading This too shall pass across a woman's upper shoulder, with her face cropped out of the frame.
Script quote tattoo on a shoulder
Fine line black script tattoo reading explore dream discover running from the ankle along the outer side of a bare foot on sand.
Explore dream discover script on the ankle
Close photo of a black script tattoo reading We're all mad here across a forearm, with a blue beaded bracelet on the wrist.
Script quote on a forearm
Fine line black script lettering with a pink and blue watercolour poppy on a woman's shoulder near the collarbone.
Script and poppy on the shoulder
Black fine line tattoos on the top of a foot showing a heart-shaped cat outline, the word Cat in script, and a small whisker face near the ankle.
Cat heart, script word and whiskers on a foot
Black script tattoo reading inhale the future exhale the past with a small flock of birds in flight, on a shoulder.
Quote and birds on a shoulder
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Life's a tangled web across the ribs, in a lettering style tattoo on bare skin.
Life's a tangled web lettering on the ribs
Fine line black infinity symbol tattoo with a small flower and script lettering on the top of a foot.
Infinity symbol with flower on foot
Fine line scallop shell tattoo above the script word Cali in blue ink, placed on the side of the hip near the buttock.
Scallop shell and script name on the hip
Black and grey typewriter lettering reading I told you to be patient, fine, balanced, kind, across the side of the ribs.
Typewriter quote along the ribs
Black fine line script lettering running along the inner forearm near the wrist, with a clenched fist raised beside it against a plain grey wall.
Fine line script lettering on the wrist
Close photo of the words 'choose life.' in black typewriter-style lettering on the inner upper arm.
Choose life lettering on an upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of the words My loves in thin script beside two shaded hearts, on a person's side above the hip, with a red bikini strap visible.
Script My loves and shaded hearts on the side