Word tattoo ideas

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

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Close photo of a bold black Devanagari script tattoo running vertically along the inner forearm of a person in a grey sweater.
Devanagari script lettering on a forearm
Close-up of bold black brush-script lettering reading Work Bitch across a forearm, resting on a wooden surface.
Black script lettering on a forearm
Close-up of knuckle lettering spelling TEA TIME in black letters with teal shading, with a small teal teapot on the left hand, in a traditional lettering style.
TEA TIME lettering across knuckles
Black ink fine line script reading you can do this, each phrase written on its own underlined line, shown as a tattoo design on white.
You can do this handwritten lettering design
Close-up photo of a grey-black lettering tattoo on the upper arm, with the letters a, r and m stacked vertically in a serif font.
Stacked serif letters spelling arm on upper arm
Black and grey photo of a palm with a small barcode tattoo and the word SLAVE in spaced capitals beneath it.
Barcode and SLAVE tattoo on a palm
Black script lettering reading Little Monsters, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Little Monsters script lettering design
White ink lettering tattoo reading Believe in flowing script with swirling flourishes on a forearm.
Believe script in white ink on forearm
Black and white photo of two hands held together in a triangle, with the words what goes around comes back around tattooed in capitals across the fingers.
Quote tattooed across fingers
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading with every mistake we must surely be learning, across the ribs of a person wearing a leopard print top.
Script quote across the ribs
Black ink script tattoo reading Keep going on the inner forearm, with a small arrow and a small leaf or bird outline beside the lettering.
Keep going script on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading Hope, with a small heart in the o, on the top of a bare foot.
Hope script with heart on a foot
Black script lettering reading Ginger with looping flourishes and a small blue gem on the upper chest, just below the collarbone.
Script word with flourishes on upper chest
Close-up of a black ornate lettering tattoo reading TRUE with looping flourishes on a forearm, with a smaller reddish version below on a finger.
TRUE lettering with loops on forearm
Black lettering tattoo of a quotation in a serif typeface running diagonally along the inner forearm.
Serif quote along a forearm
Paper tattoo request form with pen drawings of an anchor, a dreamcatcher, a feather, a flock of birds and an infinity symbol with the word Word.
Tattoo request form with anchor and dreamcatcher designs
Black script reading fearless with a green ribbon and green boxing gloves tattooed on the side of the ribs, in a lettering style.
Fearless script with ribbon and boxing gloves
Pale, faded script lettering reading Trust across a wrist, shown as a whitened lettering tattoo in a Lettering style.
Trust script on a wrist
Black and white photo of the word breathe in small typewriter-style lettering tattooed on the ribs below a woman's breast.
Breathe lettering on the ribs
Black and white photo of a fine line script lettering tattoo of three words on the upper arm of a woman with long dark hair.
Script lettering on an upper arm
Black and grey photo of two forearms held together, one with the word Always in cursive script and the other with After all this time? in serif lettering.
Matching forearm lettering tattoos
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 and grey dotwork tattoo of an anatomical heart wrapped in octopus tentacles, with the word desillusions, on the ribs.
Octopus wrapped anatomical heart on ribs
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
Traditional-style tattoo of a red heart pierced by an arrow, with a yellow banner reading BACON and blue stars, on an upper arm.
Heart with arrow and BACON banner on upper arm
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