Word tattoo ideas

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

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Close view of fine line black script reading good vibes on the side of a torso, just below a grey top.
Good vibes script on the side ribs
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo on the inner forearm of a woman lying on white bedding, with a grey t-shirt sleeve visible.
Fine line script on a forearm
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading serendipity on a forearm, against a blurred colourful background.
Serendipity script on a forearm
Close-up of the Italian phrase la pura verità in fine black serif lettering on skin at the side of the neck.
Italian phrase la pura verità in black serif
Bold black block lettering reading BELIEVE tattooed on a forearm, with a slightly shaded, dimensional look.
Believe lettering on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading Blessed, with a small heart and a dangling rosary with cross, on a person's lower back.
Blessed script with rosary on lower back
Single-line handwritten script design reading positivity in black on a white background, drawn in a fine line lettering style with no body placement shown.
Positivity in fine line script
Black fine line script lettering on a white background reading keep life simple, drawn as a single continuous stroke design for a tattoo.
Keep life simple script lettering design
Two black script lettering tattoos, one reading for them I'd risk it all on the top of a foot and one reading because of her I will not fall on the other foot.
Two script quotes on the feet
Black script tattoo reading Strength, with a small cross through the T, on the side of the ribs.
Strength script with cross on ribs
Fine line black script tattoo of the word love with a long swash line across a forearm, set against a plain white background.
Love script on a forearm
Black and white photo of a forearm with the words THIS MEANS NOTHING in simple hand-drawn block lettering across the inner arm.
Forearm lettering reading This means nothing
Side of a torso showing a lettering tattoo of the words Art Is The Weapon, Imagination Is The Ammunition in black type over colourful watercolour splashes on the ribs.
Watercolour splash and quote on the side ribs
Black script lettering reading Why Serious? with So beneath it and a small caret mark, tattooed across the centre of a person's upper back in a lettering style.
Why Serious? lettering across a back
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' along the collarbone near the shoulder.
Script quote 'this too shall pass' on collarbone
Close-up photo of a black outline tattoo of a heart containing the words NOT YOU in block capitals, on a patch of skin.
Outlined heart with NOT YOU lettering
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'alive' with a thin trailing line, on the inner wrist.
Fine line script 'alive' on a wrist
Black and white photo of the words ACCIO ADVENTURE tattooed in bold block capitals on a forearm, in Lettering style.
Accio Adventure lettering on a forearm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading Courage, dear heart across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Courage, dear heart script on upper back
Close-up of the words avada kedavra tattooed in dark blue lettering along an extended index finger, in a lettering style.
Avada kedavra lettering on a finger
Fine black script lettering on a forearm that begins with the words Daughter of, with the rest of the phrase partly hidden by the angle of the photo.
Script lettering on a forearm
Black line drawing of a bold, graffiti-style word with a rising sun, clouds, flowers, feathers and a bird, designed as a lettering piece for a tattoo.
Bubble lettering with sun, clouds and flowers
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo of the word beloved in black ink on a woman's inner forearm, while she holds a white mug of coffee.
Beloved script on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading everything is alright forever in a serif typeface across the ribs, in a lettering style.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Two side-by-side photographs of black lettering tattoos: I'm fine on the upper arm and save me on the shoulder.
I'm fine and save me script tattoos
Two forearms show fine black script lettering: upper arm reads You are my sunshine and the lower forearm reads My only sunshine, both on the forearm.
Script quote tattoos on two forearms
Black silhouette of a raven in flight with a distressed texture, above the script word Nevermore on a pale grey background.
Raven in flight above the word Nevermore
Black sans-serif lettering on a thigh reading 'We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken' across four lines.
Quote tattoo on the thigh
Black and grey lettering reading "i feel infinite" in a typewriter-style font across the inner wrist and forearm.
"i feel infinite" lettering on a wrist
Black line drawing of an open heart above the word Always in loose handwritten script, a lettering design on a plain white background.
Heart above the word Always
Close-up of a fine black script tattoo reading Yahweh on the inner forearm, in a Lettering style.
Yahweh script on a forearm
Black hand-lettered script reading breathe, shown as a large design on white, a temporary transfer on grass, and a small fine line version on the chest.
Breathe script word tattoo
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading immeasurably more across the inner forearm, on a light skin tone.
Immeasurably more script on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of the Deathly Hallows symbol beside the word always in script on the inner wrist.
Deathly Hallows symbol and script word on wrist
Small black fine-line script reading free, with a bird in flight at its end, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script word free with a flying bird on upper back
Fine line black script word Real with an arrow on the upper back, sitting near the shoulder blade.
Script word "Real" with arrow on upper back
Black script lettering reading Enough on a area of skin, with fine linework and a soft, slightly blurred background.
Enough in black script lettering
Black fine line infinity symbol with the word family in cursive script, tattooed on a shoulder.
Infinity symbol with family script on shoulder
Two wrists pressed together, each with a black script word tattooed on the inner wrist, reading Stay on the left and Strong on the right.
Matching Stay and Strong wrist script
Small dark script word tattoo on the forearm near the wrist, with a woven bracelet, resting on red and grey plaid bedding.
Small script word tattoo on a forearm
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo spelling the word saudade across the inner wrist.
Saudade script on the wrist
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo spelling the word love behind a person's ear, shown in lettering style.
Script love tattoo behind the ear
Black and grey realism style tattoo of a vintage typewriter with a sheet reading 'lost for words' on a forearm.
Typewriter with 'lost for words' on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading love on the inner wrist, with a raised fist and pink nails against a blurred outdoor background.
Script word "love" on a wrist
Fine line script tattoo reading imagine across the inside of a wrist, with fingers blurred in the background.
Imagine script on a wrist
Black script lettering reading For every dark night, There's a brighter day across the side of the ribs, shown in a close photograph.
Script quote tattoo on the side ribs
Fine black script lettering tattooed across the back of a hand beside white coffin-shaped nails and a gold watch.
Script word tattoo on the back of a hand
Fine line infinity symbol tattoo with the word run in script on the upper back, in black ink.
Infinity symbol with script word on upper back