34 Captivating Script Tattoo Ideas for Women & Men in 2024

Script tattoos make great matching tattoo ideas, especially when traveling. This couple got matching forearm script tattoos in Thai. The Thai language is excellent for black ink designs because of the shape and flow of curving letters!

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Another professionally executed black ink Thai script tattoo. The letters are inked with a nice thickness and shape above the ankle. It’s a tricky area, but this design will have little trouble holding up over time.

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I like the individuality in this upper arm script tattoo. The black ink font is crisp, and the lettering is spot on. The key feature is how the words slide down the arm and start to melt, becoming a single black line. It’s an excellent concept etched with professionalism.

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I love the font choice and placement combination for this woman’s neck tattoo script. The large cursive font flows beautifully along the nape of the neck, and the flourish of splashing ink is a nice touch that works well with the theme. While script tattoos are often simple, they can be as eye-catching as any image!

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This amore (love) tattoo is an exceptional ‘belly filler.’ The piece mixes a base graffiti font with a split shading method similar to ambigram script tattoos. The artist’s application skills are first-class. The work balances clean, crisp lines against clever shading depth.

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A beautiful tattoo on the woman’s outer forearm. The design is perfect for any traveler, matching the cursive “onward adventure” script with a black ink airplane. I love how the trailing smoke from the jet creates the colorful transition ink of the text.

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I love this custom color forearm tattoo. The artist has given it excellent pop by crafting a 3D chrome effect popular with car and motorcycle lovers. The skulls work well with the word chaos, and the color scheme makes the tattoo bright and visually attractive.

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This script tattoo is an epic design idea matched by skilled application. The tattoo has been applied so the wearer can read it in front of the mirror. Given that there is a date, time, and weight measurement in the digital-style script, the design is a marker for the birth of a baby.

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This inner forearm tribute tattoo illustrates the character symbol of the woman’s parent (in Korean). The transition shading goes from heavy black ink to a nearly translucent gray color and is well done.

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This woman’s neck tattoo is a tidy example of black ink gothic script. The lettering for the word resilience is effective – it’s solid and crisply drawn up. The design will have no issues holding up as it ages.

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This heavy black ink script tattoo says, “Be inspired.” I like the smoothly inked, thicker black lines that look more like a Sharpie drawing than a needle impression.

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The simplicity of this 3D script tattoo makes it stand out (and makes it a much cheaper tattoo). The clever outline ink does the heavy lifting. The mix of black ink and white highlights allows the negative space inside the tattoo to make the effect that’s popping off the skin. It looks like an old 3D word from a computer screensaver.

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I love the execution of this Chinese calligraphy tattoo. The characters are beautifully brushed onto the skin in deft strokes, just like they would be if painted. The depth and vibrancy of the black ink and the precise spacing of each character further showcase the artist’s masterful skillset.

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A wonderfully placed and executed Chicano-style script tattoo. The flowing letters (which spell out loyalty) are applied with beautifully flowing linework, and the black and red color palette mixes flawlessly at different points along the script.

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Another cool handwritten script tattoo, this time on the woman’s ankle. The colored inks match up well, and the flowers are an intelligent choice to bookend/finish off the tattoo. The tattoo is cheerful and happy, much like euphoria can be!

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This epic back tattoo is based on ‘A Season in Hell’ by the famous French poet Arthur Rimbaud. I love the clean upper case letters matched against the header’s significantly larger hollow font. The solid, long-stemmed black rose is the piece’s highlight that artfully ties all the text together. Magnifique!

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An epic chest tattoo combining elements of graffiti and ambigram script tattoos. The design spells out ‘dirty love’ with negative space, and the cleverly applied tattooing supports the non-tattooed area to make the clean skin the focal point. Using black and red coloring in the central filler, with grayscale smoke effects, further demonstrates the artist’s framing, spacing, and filler skills.

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Another simple but effective black ink handwritten tattoo on the upper arm. This one says ‘love is courage’ in German. I like the choice to make each word go on a separate line – it makes the tattoo bigger and fits the freehand linework application.

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I don’t recognize the language of this character tattoo, but it’s applied with precision and an excellent eye for flowing linework. The tattoo looks fresh and exciting, and I love the placement between the collarbone and the upper arm. The vivid black ink will hold up very well as it ages.

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This tattoo adds a lightly etched artistic script to three musical notes. It uses a delicate cursive style with a light application that may not hold up firmly over time. The wearer may need to re-touch the script so it matches the music.

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