Word tattoo ideas

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

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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
Black and grey lettering tattoo spelling BELIEVE in vertical capitals on the neck behind a person's ear.
Vertical BELIEVE lettering behind an ear
A fine black line script tattoo reading fearless sits on the inner wrist of a raised fist against a plain white background.
Fearless script on the inner wrist
Pale lettering reading wit beyond measure runs across the upper back near the shoulder blade, in a lettering style.
White lettering across upper back
Black and white photo of the word grace in thin, lowercase fine line lettering on the inner wrist and forearm.
Lowercase word grace on an inner wrist
Two photographs of black lettering tattoos: "I'm fine" on the outer thigh above the knee, and "save me" on the ankle of a raised foot, both in a plain black script.
"I'm fine" and "save me" lettering on legs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading choose joy on the inner wrist of a raised hand, set against dark weathered wooden boards.
Choose joy wrist tattoo
White ink script tattoo reading Believe with swirling flourishes on a forearm, in a lettering style.
Believe script on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Give me strength when I'm standing and faith when I fall, tattooed across the upper chest below the collarbone.
Script quote across the upper chest
Two fists held toward the camera, with the word LOVE in black serif capitals across the fingers of one hand and SICK across the other, both on the hand.
LOVE and SICK finger lettering
Black fine line script tattoo reading what if you fly on the side of a torso, above a patterned blue top.
Script quote reading what if you fly
Black script lettering reading Strength; It's what comes from the madness we survive, tattooed across the upper chest.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black script lettering design reading Always & Forever on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Always & Forever script lettering design
Close view of a small black fine-line script tattoo on a woman's upper back, shown above a pale blue bandeau top and beneath a knitted sweater.
Fine line script word on upper back
White handwritten script reading Simple things, set vertically on a black background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Simple things script lettering design
Black ink lettering reading mind above a horizontal line and matter below, tattooed on the inner wrist of a raised hand.
Mind over matter wrist lettering
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading "with every heartbeat" in black ink along a woman's collarbone, near the shoulder.
"with every heartbeat" script along a collarbone
Black script lettering reading Stay Gold runs diagonally down the back of a person's neck, with their hair up in a bun.
Stay Gold script on the back of the neck
Close-up of a fine black script tattoo reading Amor across a finger, with a blue opal ring on the same hand.
Amor script tattoo on a finger
Black and white photo of a forearm with the words LOVE WILL TEAR US APART tattooed in bold block capitals against a dark background.
Love will tear us apart lettering on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading inhale exhale across the upper chest, shown on bare skin beside a white top.
Inhale exhale script on the chest
Black and white photo of a fine line arrow with the word fearless in cursive script on a person's ribs.
Arrow and fearless script on ribs
Black and grey photograph of the words "cross my heart and hope to die" in cursive lettering tattooed on the upper chest, below the collarbone.
Cross my heart quote on the upper chest
Black tattoo of the word curiouser in looping script within oval outlines, with one copy inverted, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Curiouser script tattoo on the inner arm
Black script lettering tattoo on the lower back, shown in a mirror selfie with the wearer in denim shorts and a white crop top.
Small script tattoo on lower back
Close photo of a small black lettering tattoo reading tattoo on the upper arm, just below a grey t-shirt sleeve.
The word tattoo on an upper arm