Word tattoo ideas

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

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Black typewriter-style lettering reading i was a drizzle and she was a hurricane, tattooed across a woman's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Typewriter quote tattoo on a shoulder
Fine line script tattoo reading Freedom with a small dark bird silhouette beside it, on the side of a finger.
Freedom script with a small bird on a finger
Black fine line script lettering reading Faith on the inner wrist and forearm of a light-skinned arm.
Faith script on the wrist
Black and white photo of the words BE THE CHANGE tattooed in block lettering on the inner wrist, above beaded bracelets.
Be the Change lettering on a wrist
Black script lettering reading 'i am not afraid to walk this world alone' across the inner forearm, in a lettering style.
Script quote tattoo on the forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo on a forearm reading MAGIC, with a triangle, circle and vertical line symbol in place of the letter A.
MAGIC lettering with triangle symbol on a forearm
Black fine-line script lettering reading Love never fails on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Love never fails in fine script
Fine line black script tattoo reading Smile on the side of a ribcage, with several moles visible on the surrounding skin.
Smile script on ribs
Fine line blue script reading Girl Power with an outline heart on each side, on the inside of a wrist.
Girl Power lettering with hearts on a wrist
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a four-line quote across the lower back of a woman in a navy cut-out top.
Four-line quote tattoo on lower back
Black brush-script lettering of the word fearless on white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Fearless brush lettering design
Small black lettering reading GRL PWR sits on the outer thigh of a seated person in black underwear and a white shirt.
GRL PWR lettering on a thigh
Close-up of a fine black script tattoo reading I'm a walking travesty along a pale forearm, resting on a maroon cushion.
Script quote on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading fearless on the side of a woman's neck.
Fearless script on the side of the neck
Two stacked photos of black and grey blackletter lettering tattooed on skin, with grey shading fading through the strokes.
Blackletter lettering shown in two panels
Black ink design of a flock of small birds flying upward above the word freedom, with the letters m and o raised at the end, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Birds rising above the word freedom
Small black fine line script reading Mama with an outlined heart on the inner forearm near the wrist, with a clenched hand in the foreground.
Mama script and heart on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading love is enough on the forearm, with a single hairline stroke running beneath the words.
Love is enough script on an arm
Black script tattoo of the word Hope, with an awareness ribbon forming the final letter, on a close-up of skin.
Hope script with ribbon on skin
Close-up of a woman's bare back with fine black cursive lettering tattooed on the lower back, below the shoulder blade.
Cursive script lettering on upper back
Black ink Traditional-style tattoo of a scalloped heart reading BE NICE with small ornaments above and below, on an upper arm.
Be Nice heart on upper arm
Two inner wrists, each with a black handwritten script tattoo reading I love you, shown with the palms pressed together.
Matching I love you wrist tattoos
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Run you clever boy and remember, in a fine script style, shown in a black and white photograph.
Quote tattoo in black script across two areas
Black script lettering reading Buckeyes overlaps a red outline of the state of Ohio on the side of the ribs.
Buckeyes script with Ohio state outline
Close photo of a fine line cursive script tattoo in black ink running along the side of a middle finger, resting on a grey countertop.
Cursive word tattoo on middle finger
Black cursive lettering tattoo reading little things on skin, with the top edge partly covered by white paper towel.
Little things script on skin
Close-up of the word Promise in thin black script lettering tattooed along a finger, with a gold ring on the next finger and red nail polish.
Promise script on a finger
Close photograph of a small fine black serif word, rêveur, tattooed on the upper arm, with the framed collage showing a book spine and an old printed page.
Rêveur lettering on upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo reading fearless across the inner wrist, with coral nail polish visible above it.
Fearless script on a wrist
Pen sketch of the words Who I am today is worse than other times in mixed lettering styles, with no body part visible.
Hand-drawn lettering sketch of a quote
Fine line black script tattoo on an upper arm, repeating the word Miami along a jagged heartbeat-style line.
Repeated script word in a wave line on arm
Close-up of a small black cursive script tattoo on the side of a lower back above dark lace underwear, styled as lettering and placed on the back.
Cursive script tattoo on a lower back
Fine line black script lettering on the upper arm and a small black antler tattoo on the upper back, shown on a woman with blonde hair in a dark vest top.
Script word and antler tattoos on arm and back
Close view of a fine line black script tattoo of the word spark along the side of the ribs, below the arm.
Spark script on the ribs
Black and grey typewriter-style lettering reading imagine on the upper back near the shoulder blade, photographed from behind.
Imagine lettering on upper back
Two script word tattoos, Run on the left ankle and Fast on the right, in black ink with red canvas sneakers and rolled khaki trousers.
Run and Fast script ankle tattoos
Fine line script design of the words inhale and exhale in black ink on a white background, drawn as a tattoo design rather than shown on skin.
Inhale and exhale script lettering design
Black fine line script lettering reading Alltid i mitt hjerte across the ribs of a person wearing a black top.
Script lettering across the ribs
Small fine line script reading feelin' fine in black ink on the upper arm of a person in a navy top with a rolled sleeve.
Feelin' fine script on upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of three staves of sheet music with the word Unlimited between them, placed on the upper back.
Sheet music tattoo across the upper back
Fine line tattoo of a plaster with the word BREATHE on the inside of a wrist, shown in dark ink against a blurred green and yellow background.
Breathe plaster tattoo on a wrist
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading everything was beautiful and nothing hurt in a typewriter-style font, placed on the upper back.
Typewriter quote tattoo on the back
Black script lettering reading Lights will guide runs diagonally across a shoulder, cropped at the right edge of the photo.
Script quote on the shoulder
Black handwritten script reading Just..... Be You. on a plain white background, a fine line lettering design with no body placement shown.
Just Be You handwritten script lettering
Close photo of black fine script lettering reading Moment on the inner forearm, with a pendant necklace and a bare shoulder visible.
Script lettering on a forearm
Hand with three fingers raised showing a small red star with black outline on one finger, the word fob in black script on the next, and a black semicolon on the third, in a fine line style on the
Star, word and semicolon on fingers
Two black script lettering designs on a white background, one in flowing copperplate style and one in a looser handwritten style, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Two lettering designs in black script
Black script lettering reading dance along the inner side of a foot near the heel, with the sole raised towards the camera.
Dance script lettering on the side of a foot