Word tattoo ideas

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

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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
Black fine line script tattoo of the word fidelium on the top of a foot near the ankle, with a purple patterned fabric beneath.
Fine line script word on a foot
Close-up of a fine line black script lettering tattoo reading Send me on the side of a foot, with blue painted toenails and rolled denim jeans.
Script lettering on the side of a foot
Close-up photograph of the word promise in thin white script tattooed along the side of a finger, shown in a lettering style.
Promise written in script along a finger
Two sheets showing the word POWER stacked vertically in bold serif capitals, purple letters with an offset orange shadow, shown as a lettering design rather than on skin.
POWER lettering design on two transfer sheets
Black ink geometric mandala with script symbols across a woman's upper back, with English words tattooed to the upper right.
Yantra mandala tattoo across upper back
Close photo of the fine line black script tattoo reading aquí y ahora across the lower abdomen, above a black waistband.
Fine script phrase across the lower abdomen
Close-up of three stacked lines of the word busy in black lettering on the outer thigh, with a paperback book resting on the lap.
Busy repeated lettering on a thigh
Black and grey script tattoo reading Faith, Hope and Love with a small cross and heart, across the top of a foot near the ankle.
Faith, Hope and Love script on an ankle
Back of a woman in a car showing a dark outlined tattoo of the word FUCK in blocky letters across her upper back, with a curled shape to the left.
Blocky word tattoo across upper back
Close photo of a small black script tattoo reading family with a heart, on the side of a finger, in a Lettering and Fine line style.
Family script with heart on a finger
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading history will be kind to me, running down the inner forearm near the wrist.
Typewriter quote on the inner wrist
Black script lettering tattoo reading strength across the inner wrist, in a fine line lettering style.
Strength script on the inner wrist
Black and grey serif lettering reading past on one inner wrist and future on the other, shown in a black and white photograph.
Past and future lettering on two wrists
Black script lettering reading Keep Moving Forward with a long arrow running along the forearm in a fine line tattoo.
Keep Moving Forward arrow on a forearm
Fine-line script tattoo reading love is enough across the forearm, shown in a close-up and a full-arm photo in black ink.
"Love is enough" script on a forearm
Close-up of a black script lettering tattoo reading Blessed across the inner ear, with a stud earring below.
Blessed script tattoo on the ear
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading be happy with a small outlined heart on the inner wrist, in a greyscale photo.
Be happy script with heart on wrist
Close-up photo of a fine line black tattoo reading Ohana with a small outlined heart, placed on the inner side of a foot near the ankle.
Ohana lettering with heart on foot
Two photos of fine black script lettering reading you are the smell before rain and you are the blood in my veins, both on the side of the ribs.
Script quote tattoos on the side ribs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading "Write in recollection and amazement for yourself" across a forearm, in a lettering style.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Black and white photo of two people's side rib tattoos in script lettering reading Part of me and Apart from me, with a dressing over one fresh tattoo.
Matching "Part of me" and "Apart from me" rib tattoos
Thin black lettering reading STAY ALIVE, with the letters crossed by a single horizontal line, tattooed across the inner wrist beside a line-art design sheet.
Stay Alive lettering on a wrist
Close photo of the word Believe in black cursive lettering tattooed on the upper chest below the collarbone.
Believe script on upper chest