Word tattoo ideas

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

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Close photo of a small black script tattoo reading Exhale, on the back of a wrist, with a hand resting on a thigh beside white platform trainers.
Exhale script tattoo on the hand
Close-up of a black script lettering tattoo reading Don't forget to love yourself, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote reading Don't forget to love yourself
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded dandelion seed head with birds and seeds drifting up the side of the ribs, with the word Always below.
Dandelion seeds becoming birds on ribs
Fine line script tattoo of the word faith on the inner wrist, shown in a Fine line lettering style.
Script word faith on the inner wrist
Black and grey script tattoo spelling the word Strength on the inner wrist and forearm, in a black and white photo.
Strength script on a wrist
Black typewriter-style lettering across the upper back reads nothing of me is original, with the person's face out of frame.
Typewriter quote tattoo across upper back
Fine line black infinity symbol tattoo with cursive script reading Live Love Laugh on the side of a thigh.
Live Love Laugh infinity script on thigh
Black script lettering on a forearm reading "Don't let the past make your dicisions, for today", shown in a black and grey tattoo.
Script quote on a forearm
Black script lettering reading God is within her, she will not fall, tattooed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote on upper chest
Black and grey dotwork bee tattoo on one wrist beside the words just be in a simple serif font on the other wrist.
Matching bee and just be wrist tattoos
Traditional style panther head with green eyes and a red open mouth inside a banner reading Burn Burn Burn, tattooed on an upper arm.
Snarling panther head with banner on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading Jerk and Bitch on the inside of a wrist, in a script and a bold serif style.
Jerk and Bitch lettering on a wrist
Fine line script tattoo reading 'Ohana in dark ink on the upper shoulder near the collarbone, with blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail.
'Ohana script tattoo on the shoulder
Small fine line black script tattoo with a trailing line on the back of a person's neck, partly hidden by dark hair pinned up.
Fine line script on the back of the neck
Fine line script tattoo reading Faith, drawn in pale ink with a looped swash, on the sole of a foot.
Faith script tattoo on a foot sole
Black and grey photograph of a block lettering tattoo on the inner forearm near the wrist, reading WORDS FAIL with MUSIC SPEAKS upside down beneath it.
Words fail, music speaks lettering on a forearm
Close-up of a small black script tattoo reading anise on the side of an ankle, worn with gold stiletto heels and dark trousers.
Anise script on an ankle
Black script lettering reading Forever across the top of a foot, with flowing loops and a fine monoline style.
Forever script lettering on the foot
Close-up of black script lettering reading Everlong on pale skin, with a small red heart above the final letters.
Everlong script with a red heart
Close-up of the words stand strong in black script lettering tattooed on the ankle and foot.
Stand strong script on an ankle
Black lettering tattoo on the side of a thigh reading so hold your head up high and know it's not the end of the road, set in a serif typeface.
Quote lettering along the side of a thigh
White ink script tattoo reading Believe, with swirled flourishes beneath, on a forearm.
Believe script on a forearm
Close-up of a black and grey lettering tattoo on the back, reading you are every reason every hope and every dream ive ever had in a typewriter-style font.
Typewriter quote tattoo on the back
Small fine line black tattoo of the word escape between two arrows on the inner wrist, with gold bangles worn on the same arm.
Escape with arrows on the wrist
Black script lettering reading Not all those who wander are lost across the upper back of a person with dark hair, photographed from behind.
Quote lettering across the upper back
Fine line black script lettering reading Kacham Cie across the top of a foot, with teal painted toenails and denim visible at the top edge.
Script lettering on the top of a foot
Two black script lettering tattoos on the upper arms, one beginning Remind me and the other reading When everything else is gone.
Matching script quote tattoos on upper arms
Fine line tattoo of birds in flight rising up a forearm beside the word faith in cursive script.
Birds in flight and faith script on a forearm
Three wrists on a wooden table, each with a small black lettering tattoo reading DREAM, HOPE and LOVE in plain capitals on the inner forearm.
Dream, hope and love wrist lettering
Small black fine-line tattoo of three birds in flight above the cursive word invictus, on the upper back of a woman in a bikini.
Invictus script and three birds on the back
Small solid black cupid silhouette drawing a bow, with the word Shit. in typewriter lettering, on an upper arm.
Cupid silhouette with word on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading words with a superscript 3 on the inner wrist, in a typewriter-style font.
Words with a superscript 3 on a wrist
Fine line black script tattoo reading awake my soul with a swash underline, on the side of the ribcage, in a black and white photo.
Awake my soul script on the side ribs
Black and white photo of a raised hand with a small black script word tattooed on the inner wrist.
Script lettering on the inner wrist
Black ink handwritten word brave with a line and arrow beneath it, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Brave script with arrow design
Black typewriter-style lettering reading we're all stories in the end runs along a forearm.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Black and grey photo of a fine line script tattoo reading ad maiora on the inner wrist, with the hand raised in a fist.
Fine line script on the inner wrist
Black and grey photo of the words Spank Me in black script lettering flanked by two small outlined hearts, on the side of a hip above frayed denim shorts.
Script lettering with hearts on the hip
Fine line black infinity symbol with the script words 'and beyond' inside it, tattooed on the side of a ribcage.
Infinity symbol with 'and beyond' on ribs
Small black fine line script reading be still and know on the inner forearm, with the wearer in a striped top.
Fine line script phrase on inner forearm
Side view of a person in a black backless top with the word Hope in black script tattooed on the side of the ribcage below the arm.
Hope script tattoo on the side ribs
Black and grey photo of a forearm with the words I go to seek a great perhaps tattooed in a typewriter-style lettering font.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Black script lettering reading tattoo on the inner wrist of a raised hand, shown in black ink against pale skin.
Script word tattoo on inner wrist
Close up of a fine line lettering tattoo of the word free on the back of a woman's hand near the wrist, with a denim shirt and bracelets visible.
Fine line word tattoo on the hand
Black and grey fine line script reading Frida, placed at the base of the neck on the upper back.
Frida script on the upper back
Black lettering tattooed vertically down a bare upper back reads "those who matter don't mind", in a typewriter-style font, with a pool behind.
Vertical quote tattooed down the upper back
Black fine line infinity symbol with three birds in flight and the word Always in script on a person's back shoulder.
Infinity symbol with three birds and Always
Black fine line script tattoo reading cure on the side of the ribs, partly covered by grey fabric.
Cure script on the ribs