Word tattoo ideas

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

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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
Black script tattoo reading friends forever, looping through an infinity symbol, on a person's side ribs below a lace waistband.
Friends forever script in an infinity loop on ribs
Black and grey script lettering reading Fleur Rebelle across the ribs, with a hand with long nails resting beside it.
Fleur Rebelle script on ribs
Close view of the word Patience in thin black fine line lettering on the inner wrist, with a gloved hand supporting the arm.
Patience lettering on a wrist
Black script lettering reading 'i am not afraid to walk this world alone' tattooed across the inner wrist and forearm of a hand held up against greenery.
Black script quote on the inner wrist
Black cursive script lettering of the word agape on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Agape in cursive script lettering
Black and white photo of matching fine-line script lettering on the inner forearms of two people, one hand holding a coffee cup.
Matching script lettering on two forearms
Fine line black tattoo of a small bird with a thin trailing line leading to the word Believe in script, on the inner wrist.
Bird and Believe script on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo of a plain cross joined to the word Blessed in script, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Cross and Blessed script on a wrist
Black and grey lettering tattoos reading LOVE HER and I LOVE HIM across two fingers in a lettering style, with a small motif above the first word, photographed on a wooden surface.
Love her and love him finger lettering
Black lettering tattoo reading jì'e'toh in a thin cursive script on the back of a person's neck, with dark hair pulled back.
Word tattoo on the back of the neck
Fine line black script design of the word infinite written in a loose handwritten style on a plain white background, with no body placement visible.
Infinite in fine line script
Two women seen from behind, one with the word DUDE in black blackletter script across her upper back, the other with sweet in black script above her shoulder blade and a colour lily tattoo on her
Dude and sweet lettering with a lily on two backs
Black and white photo of a thin-lined BRAVE lettering tattoo on the upper arm near the elbow.
BRAVE lettering on an upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading be still with a small cross, on the inner wrist.
Be still script tattoo on the wrist
Fine line script tattoo reading free on the back of a hand, resting on a shoulder in a denim shirt.
Free script on the back of a hand
Black lettering tattoo of an infinity symbol joined to the word strength in script, on the lower back of a woman.
Infinity symbol with strength script
Fine line black tattoo of the word faith in cursive script, with a cross running through the letters, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Faith script and cross on a wrist
Close-up of a small fine line script word "you" in black ink on the back of a woman's neck, with her hair pulled to one side.
Small script word "you" on the back of the neck
Back view of two black typewriter-style lettering tattoos reading Clutch and Gas, one on each calf.
Clutch and Gas words on two calves
Two inner wrists with black script lettering: 'always be true' on the left and 'Love with passion' with a small heart on the right.
Matching wrist script quotes
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading believe along the side of a hand, with a gold ring on the ring finger.
Believe script on a hand
Black fine-line handwritten script tattoo running down the inner upper arm of a woman with her arm raised against a weathered wall.
Handwritten script tattoo on an upper arm
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading Fearless with a purple awareness ribbon crossing the letters, in fine line lettering on skin.
Fearless script with purple awareness ribbon
Black handwritten lettering design reading "Choose to chance the rapids" above an ampersand and "dare to dance the tides" on a white background.
Handwritten quote design in two lines
Close-up of two black script lettering tattoos on the backs of the wrists, reading figlia on the left hand and madre on the right, with a silver bangle on the left wrist.
Figlia and madre script on the hands