Handwriting · Tart Workshop
Butterfly Kids
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CSSfont-family: 'Butterfly Kids', cursive; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Butterfly Kids is a free handwriting font by Tart Workshop, on Google Fonts since 2012. Among the 331 handwriting faces on FontKind, Butterfly Kids has an x-height shorter than 83%, is narrower than 78% and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 86%. Its thickest strokes are 1.0 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Princess Sofia
Butterfly Kids on one light table with its two closest fonts, Princess Sofia (93 out of 100) and Are You Serious (85). Princess Sofia is 55% heavier and 16% wider, with an x-height 26% taller; Are You Serious is 42% heavier and 8% wider, with an x-height 8% taller.
Butterfly Kids and Princess Sofia laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with Butterfly KidsPrincess Sofia…
Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.
02 / Letters
The Butterfly Kids alphabet
Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400
Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.
- &
- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Sizes
Butterfly Kids at every size
1 weight (400) · six sizes, in your words
- 12 px
- 16 px
- 24 px
- 36 px
- 48 px
- 72 px
04 / Facts
Who made Butterfly Kids, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Tart Workshop
- Kind
- Handwriting
- Styles
- 1 weight (400)
- On Google Fonts since
- 2012
- Character sets
- latin, latin-ext
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Can I use it?
- Commercial use
- Yes.
- Logos
- Yes.
- Websites and apps
- Yes. Self-hosted or loaded from Google Fonts.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes, under another name. Not as “Butterfly Kids”: the licence reserves the name.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Butterfly Kids is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.
Already in your apps?
- Google Docs
- Most likely. Under More fonts, in Sheets and Slides too. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- No. Install it from Google Fonts first. Microsoft’s list
- Figma
- Yes. Built in, nothing to install. Figma’s help
- Canva
- Not verified. Search its font menu for Butterfly Kids, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Butterfly Kids under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages, read on 28 September 2026.
05 / Measurements
Butterfly Kids, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 31.9% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 75.7% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.42lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 32.2% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 34%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.00 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among handwriting faces
Ranked against all 331 handwriting faces on FontKind
x-heightSmaller than 83% of handwriting faces
WidthNarrower than 78% of handwriting faces
InkLighter than 86% of handwriting faces
ContrastMore even than 73% of handwriting faces
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Butterfly Kids
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Princess Sofia9355% heavier · x-height 26% taller · 16% wider
- Are You Serious8542% heavier · 8% wider · x-height 8% taller
- Sunshiney8153% heavier · x-height 17% taller · 14% wider
- Erratic Cursive7623% wider · x-height 4% taller
- Ruge Boogie74x-height 27% taller · 18% heavier
- Babylonica71more stroke contrast · x-height 23% shorter · 11% narrower
All 100 fonts similar to Butterfly Kids →Compare side by side →Get Butterfly Kids on Google Fonts
07 / Swap
Swap Butterfly Kids without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- Sacramento55text 1.3% wider · x-height 4.1% shorter
- Clicker Script34text 2.3% wider · x-height 3.4% taller
Fallback while it loads
Until Butterfly Kids loads, this sets Arial in its place at 66% of its size, so running text keeps Butterfly Kids’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Butterfly Kids Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 66.04%;
ascent-override: 135.60%;
descent-override: 44.96%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
font-family: 'Butterfly Kids', 'Butterfly Kids Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Butterfly Kids
Answered from its licence, Google Fonts and each app’s own font list
Is Butterfly Kids free for commercial use?
Yes. Butterfly Kids is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included; a changed version may not be called “Butterfly Kids”.
How do I download and install Butterfly Kids?
FontKind doesn’t host Butterfly Kids’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file. It holds a single font file. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open, Word included.
Is Butterfly Kids in Microsoft Word?
Not until you install it: Butterfly Kids isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. For someone who hasn’t installed it, turn on Embed fonts in the file in Word’s save options: its licence allows that.
Is Butterfly Kids in Google Docs?
Most likely. Search for Butterfly Kids under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.
Is Butterfly Kids in Figma?
Yes: Butterfly Kids is in Figma’s font menu, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.
How many weights does Butterfly Kids have?
Butterfly Kids comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
Who designed Butterfly Kids?
Butterfly Kids was designed by Tart Workshop. It has been on Google Fonts since February 2012. Tart Workshop also made Crafty Girls, Chelsea Market, Fredericka the Great and two more on FontKind.
What fonts are similar to Butterfly Kids?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Princess Sofia (93), Are You Serious (85) and Sunshiney (81), out of 100. Next to Butterfly Kids, Princess Sofia is 55% heavier and 16% wider, with an x-height 26% taller. See all 100 fonts like Butterfly Kids.