Word tattoo ideas

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

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Black lettering tattoo on a shoulder blade, with the words 'a dream is a wish your heart makes' arranged in a heart shape in a lettering style.
Heart-shaped quote on the upper back
Close-up of a fine line black script word tattoo running across the inner wrist and forearm of a pale-skinned arm against a dark background.
Cursive script word on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Let me be on the upper arm and a solid black cross on the ribs, both in a simple lettering and bold outline style.
Script on upper arm and cross on ribs
Fine line black lettering reading smitten runs vertically along a forearm as the hand holds a white phone against a white skirt and brick wall.
Smitten script on a forearm
Small fine line tattoo reading The END, with script The above block capitals END, in dark ink on an upper arm.
The END lettering on an upper arm
Two raised fists show a small black BROOKLYN lettering tattoo on one inner wrist and a simple black outline crown on the other, in a fine line style.
Brooklyn lettering and crown on wrists
Thin black handwritten script reading you are art. across the inner wrist and forearm, in fine line style.
You are art lettering on a wrist
Black lettering design of the word grace in flowing hand-drawn script on a plain white background, with no body placement shown.
Grace in flowing script lettering
Black and white photo of a black lettering tattoo reading Do I dare disturb the universe across the nape of a neck, with hands holding hair above it.
Handwritten quote on the back of the neck
Close up of a small fine line black script tattoo reading good vibes on the side ribs, below a grey crop top.
Good vibes script on the side ribs
Hand-drawn black ink script lettering of the word Live on white paper, with a black marker pen resting at the top of the frame.
Script lettering design reading Live
Black lettering tattoo reading NORMAL: PEOPLE SCARE ME across a forearm, set against a blurred green outdoor background.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Two clenched fists show the word KNITPURL tattooed one letter per finger in a serif lettering style, with black outlines and pink, orange and yellow fills on the hands.
KNITPURL lettering across knuckles
Black and grey photo of two hands with the word FEMINIST tattooed in serif lettering, one letter per finger, with a partly visible outlined design on the back of the left hand.
FEMINIST lettering across fingers
Fine line handwritten script reading palm trees, ocean breeze, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Palm trees, ocean breeze script
Black fine line script tattoo reading Unbreakable on the inner forearm, shown in a black and white photo.
Unbreakable script on a forearm
Flat lay of a bachelorette temporary tattoo mix pack with gold and silver foil designs of rings, a heart and the words Taken, Single, bride tribe and love.
Bachelorette temporary tattoo mix pack
Close photograph of the word Bazinga in black lettering tattooed along the side of a finger, with dark red nail polish and a wooden wall behind.
Bazinga lettering on a finger
Close-up of a watercolour-style orange tulip with a black script word and stem tattooed on the inner ankle.
Orange tulip and script on an ankle
Black ink hand-lettered word laugh joined to a heartbeat line and an open heart outline, drawn on a planner page.
Laugh script with heartbeat line and heart
Black lettering reading "send me" in a typewriter-style font across a forearm, with a faint blurred tattoo visible at the top left.
"send me" lettering on a forearm
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading love fearlessly on a woman's shoulder near the collarbone.
Love fearlessly script on a shoulder
Black script lettering reading Bitch tattooed on the inside of a lower lip, with a teal painted fingernail holding the lip open.
Script word tattoo inside lower lip
Fine line black script reading free with a small bird in flight beside the final letter, tattooed on the upper chest above a grey neckline.
Free script and bird on the upper chest
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line rhyming poem across the upper back, close to the shoulder blade.
Four-line poem script on upper back
Black ink compass rose with N, E, S and W points above the words Explore, Dream and Discover in script on a forearm.
Compass rose and lettering on a forearm
Black fine line script reading 'i am enough' with an arrow below it, its fletching shaded in teal and lavender, on a person's thigh.
Script 'i am enough' with arrow on thigh
Woman seen from behind with a fine line black script tattoo running down her upper back between the shoulder blades.
Fine line script tattoo across the upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading 'for a minute there, I lost myself' in a typewriter-style font on an upper arm, shown in a close-up beside a photo of a person in a knitted jumper.
Typewriter-style quote tattoo on an upper arm
Black script lettering tattoo on skin, reading Born to bleed, Fighting to succeed, Built to endure and What this world, running down a limb.
Black script quote across a limb
Black script lettering reading I am enough the way I am runs across the upper back near the shoulder, with a thin gold chain visible at the neck.
Script quote across upper back
Black fine line lettering spelling LOVE on a forearm, with the O replaced by a smiley face with X eyes and a small star cluster beside it.
LOVE lettering with a smiley face as the O
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Fa;th with the semicolon replacing the i, tattooed on a wrist.
Fa;th lettering on the wrist
Two black fine line arrow tattoos on forearms, one reading double and the other reading trouble, shown as a matching pair.
Matching arrow tattoos on forearms
Fine line black script tattoo reading Forgiven with a small cross above the final letters, on a limb.
Forgiven script tattoo with small cross
Black flowing script lettering reading 'to live to learn to love' in calligraphic style on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Script quote reading to live to learn to love
Close photograph of a black Hebrew lettering tattoo on the inner wrist, in a blocky lettering style.
Hebrew lettering on the inner wrist
Two bare feet showing black script lettering reading Heels on the left heel and Down on the right heel, in a Lettering style.
Heels and Down script tattoos on the heels
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo spelling the word faith across the upper arm near the elbow.
Faith script tattoo on the upper arm
Black ink script lettering spelling the word Fearless with looping flourishes, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain grey background.
Fearless script lettering design
Black handwritten lettering spelling the word mudblood across a wrist, shown against a dark background.
Handwritten word across a wrist
Two forearms side by side, each with a fine line black script tattoo of the word sorella on the inner forearm.
Matching sorella script on two forearms
Black and grey tattoo of a tree above the handwritten words 'i climbed the tree to see the world' on a forearm.
Tree and quote on a forearm
Black and grey serif lettering reading maybe runs sideways across the inner forearm, above a grey sleeve and blue denim cuff.
Maybe lettering on a forearm
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading Still Breathing in dark ink on the inner wrist, with the palm of the hand visible above.
Still Breathing script on wrist
Black and white photo of two wrists with small typewriter-style lettering tattoos reading love and warrior, one on each inner wrist, with lace cuffs.
Love and warrior small wrist lettering
Black fine line eye within a triangle with small lettering on the upper arm, and the words be strong girl with small stars on the ribs.
Eye in triangle and strong girl lettering
Black serif lettering reading peace will win, fear will lose, tattooed on the inner forearm in a lettering style.
Peace will win, fear will lose quote on forearm