Author's note

Butterflips font by Gabrielle Gaither is a free animal dingbat typeface filled with richly detailed butterfly silhouettes. Each glyph feels like a tiny ink illustration, with speckled wings, bold shadows, and delicate outlines that look almost hand-stamped on the page. Use a single butterfly as a focal icon, or line up several for a fluttering border that feels airy yet crisp in black and white.

Using Butterflips, you can instantly dress up greeting cards, scrapbooks, kids’ party invitations, eco-friendly packaging, nature posters, and social media quotes. This free font also shines on coloring pages or tattoo mockups where clean, distinct shapes matter. Try pairing these butterflies with a soft handwritten script and plenty of white space, sizing the dingbats slightly larger than your text so the artwork really takes flight.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Created by Gabrielle Gaither (c) copyright 1998 $2 non-commercial shareware to P.O. Box 1121 Springfield, VA 22151-0121 http:\\members.xoom.com\gaitherg
Font family
butterflips
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 butterflips
Full font name
butterflips
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 12/3/98
Postscript font name
Butterflips
Trademark notice
http:\\members.xoom.com\gaitherg

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1998-12-03
Revision1
Glyph count31
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI