Word tattoo ideas

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

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Black lettering tattoo in a serif typeface reading Strength is what we gain from the madness we survive, across a shoulder and upper back.
Strength quote tattoo on a shoulder
Black and grey photo of a serif lettering tattoo reading "; not ended" across the inside of a forearm near the wrist.
Semicolon and "not ended" on a wrist
Black fine line tattoo of the word Always in cursive script beside a Deathly Hallows symbol on the inner wrist and forearm.
Always script with Deathly Hallows symbol
Black script tattoo reading Choose Love on the inner wrist, in a flowing lettering style with a looped capital C and L.
Choose Love script on the inner wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading a quote in a handwritten script, running along the inner forearm.
Quote in script along a forearm
Black fine line script reading hakuna matata, arched across the design with small flying birds, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Hakuna matata script with birds
Close-up of black script lettering reading Make that change on the inside of a forearm, in a lettering style.
Make that change script on a forearm
Black fine line script lettering reading NOT all who WANDER are LOST, placed on the lower leg near the ankle.
Quote lettering on a lower leg
Black fine line infinity symbol with the word run in script on a shoulder, with a teal top at the upper left.
Infinity symbol with run script on shoulder
Fine line black script tattoo reading courage across an ankle, with a second bare foot resting against it on a white background.
Courage script on an ankle
Black fine line script reading faith with a thin trailing line on the inside of a wrist, set against purple and pink petunias.
Faith script with fine line on a wrist
Black handwritten script reading flawless followed by a full stop, drawn as a lettering tattoo design on a plain white background.
Flawless handwritten script design
Black script lettering tattooed on the inner wrists of two hands, reading It's Only Forever and Not Long At All.
Script quote tattoos on both wrists
Two photographs of small black typewriter-style lettering tattoos on the inner forearm, reading heart over mind and courage over fear, with a dark knit sleeve pushed up.
Typewriter words on forearm: heart, mind, courage, fear
Black script lettering tattoo on the ribs reading Without struggle, There is no progress, shown beside a pink top.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading "love is love" on the top of a foot, near the ankle.
"Love is love" script on a foot
Close-up of black script lettering reading Ohana on skin, in a Lettering style, on the foot or ankle area.
Ohana script lettering on skin
Small black fine line script lettering on a woman's side ribs, shown with a white bralette and open blue shirt.
Small script lettering on the ribs
Fine black line tattoo of the state of California with the word California in script inside the outline, on the inner upper arm.
California state outline with script lettering on upper arm
Black script lettering tattoo on the upper arm of a woman in a pale pink dress with sheer sleeves, photographed from behind.
Script tattoo on upper arm
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo spelling the word love across the side of a finger, with red painted nails.
Love script tattoo on a finger
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading sisu on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script word 'sisu' near the collarbone
Small black fine line Devanagari script lettering on the inner wrist, photographed against a dark background.
Devanagari script on the inner wrist
Close-up of the words bad wolf in small lowercase serif lettering in pale grey ink on the side of a torso.
Small lettering reading bad wolf on the side
Black script lettering reading 'Not all those who wander are lost' across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo across upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading "we're all mad here." in a typewriter-style serif font, running across the inside of a forearm.
"We're all mad here" quote on forearm
Fine line botanical tattoo of a pink flower with a black script word trailing from its stem, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Pink flower and script on collarbone
Black brush-lettered word SEEK followed by three dots on a plain white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Seek in brush lettering
Small black fine line script tattoo reading dance on the inner forearm, with a long looping stroke under the D.
Dance script word on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading Breathe, with decorative flourishes, on the inner wrist.
Breathe script on a wrist
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading Be good across the middle finger of a hand, in a lettering style.
Be good lettering on a finger
Black script lettering reading "and in the end we will always have each other" across three lines on the side of the ribs.
Handwritten script quote on the side ribs
Black stylised lettering reading BAD on the inner forearm and wrist, shown against a cream panelled door.
Black lettering reading BAD on a wrist
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading Love on the upper arm, with a white lace top in the background.
Love script tattoo on an upper arm
Black script lettering reading Faith, Strength and Trust on the upper back near the shoulder blade, with the crossbars of the T and t drawn as crosses.
Faith, strength and trust script on upper back
Black and white photo of a small black serif lettering tattoo reading JOY on the upper arm, just below a grey T-shirt sleeve.
JOY lettering on an upper arm
A flash sheet of twelve numbered handwritten script designs spelling the word fearless, in black ink on white, with no body placement shown.
Fearless word designs in script, twelve variations
Fine line white ink script lettering reading Let It Be on the inner wrist, shown in a close-up photograph.
White script lettering reading Let It Be on a wrist
Black and white photo of two people embracing, each with a fine line script word joy tattooed on the forearm.
Matching joy script tattoos on two forearms
Black script lettering reading family on the side of a finger, Lettering style, placed on the hand.
Family script lettering on a finger
Black blackletter-style lettering reading I'M AWSOME across the upper back, shown in a close photo of bare skin.
I'm awsome lettering across upper back
Black fine line script tattoo reading Come along Pond on the side of a bare foot near the ankle.
Come along Pond script on a foot
Two wrists gripping a wooden bar, each with a teal lettering tattoo on the inner forearm: Breathe in on the left and Breathe out upside down on the right.
Breathe in and breathe out wrist tattoos
Black fine-line script lettering running vertically down the centre of a person's upper back, shown on bare skin with a light sheen.
Vertical script lettering down the back
Fine line infinity symbol with a heart-shaped left loop and the word life in cursive script, on the hand near the fingers.
Infinity heart with life script
Black script tattoo reading fearless in a thin cursive hand on the inside of a wrist, with the fingers curled up above it.
Fearless script on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Soror Amata with a small heart beside it, tattooed along the forearm.
Script lettering with heart on forearm
Close up of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'you are enough' on the inside of a wrist, with a fist raised in the background.
Fine line script 'you are enough' on a wrist