• 24 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Butterfly Text Art

Tap a butterfly to copy every line of it; the first sits on a sign you can type on.

Butterfly Text Art

\ / (\|/) (/|\) .-------'-------. | YOUR WORDS | '-------.-------' |Butterfly on a sign7 lines, 18 wideReady to copy

24 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 2

One line 4

Small, 2 to 4 lines 8

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

Large, 10 lines and up 2

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How it works

Butterfly text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 24 pieces, wings open in plain, dotted and eye-spot patterns, on a flower, over grass, circling, and as a strip from caterpillar to butterfly.

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How these butterflies are built

Two slashes are the feelers, and a bar or a capital Y is the body. Wings are parentheses and slashes: the smallest with feelers, Little butterfly, plain, is three rows, five characters wide. A lowercase o is a dot on a wing and (@) an eye spot.

Two you can write on

Butterfly on a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, and Butterfly corner frame takes the same between four one-line butterflies. Pad a shorter word with spaces so the frame stays closed.

  • Where spaces fold, use Squash-proof: seven pieces, three of them taller than one line. Why spaces fold.
  • Butterflies made of single letters from other alphabets are on butterfly symbols.

Questions and answers

How do you make a butterfly out of text?

Type a curly bracket, a lowercase i and the opposite bracket: }i{ is a butterfly on one line. For a taller one, copy Squash-proof butterfly, two rows of five characters with no space in them.

What is the biggest butterfly here?

Large butterfly, eye spots: 12 lines by 31 columns, with a ringed spot and a dot on each upper wing. It needs a monospaced font and a box at least 31 characters wide.

Which butterflies fit on one line?

Four: the three-character butterfly, a trio, one with a dotted trail behind it and one flying to a flower. The longest is 21 characters.

All 24 pieces

Your own words 2

  • Butterfly corner frame A dotted frame with a one-line butterfly at each corner. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or up to 19 if the padding goes. 5 lines, 25 wide.
  • Butterfly on a sign It rests wings open on top of a board on a post. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 15 with the padding. 7 lines, 18 wide.

One line 4

  • Butterfly on one line Curly brackets either side of a lowercase i. 1 line, 3 wide.
  • Butterfly to a flower One line: a butterfly, four dots of flight, and a flower on its stem. 1 line, 20 wide.
  • Butterfly trail, one line A butterfly with the dotted path it flew along behind it. 1 line, 21 wide.
  • Butterfly trio, one line Three in a row, the bodies drawn with an i, a bar and an exclamation mark. 1 line, 11 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 8

  • Butterfly, dotted trail A butterfly at the end of the looping path it has flown, drawn in dots. 4 lines, 23 wide.
  • Caterpillar to butterfly Three stages left to right: a caterpillar, a chrysalis hanging from its thread, and the butterfly. 4 lines, 34 wide.
  • Little butterfly, dotted The plain one with a dot in each upper wing. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Little butterfly, plain Feelers on top, then two rows of wings around a bar for the body. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Little eye-spot butterfly Upper wings that are each one ringed eye spot, over a pair of narrow lower wings. 3 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof big butterfly Four rows with an eye spot in each upper wing, the blanks filled with periods and apostrophes. 4 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof butterflies Two of the same side by side, joined by a period on each row. 2 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof butterfly Two rows of wings and nothing else: no blank anywhere in it. 2 lines, 5 wide.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

  • Butterflies in flight Three small butterflies and three one-line ones scattered across six rows. 6 lines, 23 wide.
  • Butterflies in three sizes Three in a row standing on one line: two rows tall, three rows tall and six rows tall. 6 lines, 31 wide.
  • Butterfly over the grass One butterfly in the air over a strip of grass with four tufts. 6 lines, 29 wide.
  • Butterfly with wing tails Wings open, with each lower wing drawn out into a tail that points straight down. 8 lines, 17 wide.
  • Dotted butterfly, medium Wings open, with three dots in each upper wing and one in each lower wing. 6 lines, 19 wide.
  • Eye-spot butterfly, medium Wings open, with one ringed eye spot in the corner of each upper wing. 7 lines, 21 wide.
  • Open-winged butterfly Seen from above with nothing on the wings: two broad upper wings, two small lower ones. 6 lines, 17 wide.
  • Two butterflies circling Two butterflies flying around each other, each trailing a quarter circle of dots. 7 lines, 15 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 2

  • Butterfly on a flower A small butterfly on top of a round flower with a stem and two leaves. 10 lines, 9 wide.
  • Large butterfly, eye spots The biggest here: eye spots and dots on the upper wings, a dot on each lower wing, and long feelers. 12 lines, 31 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site. One draft, a butterfly seen from the side with its wings folded, was thrown away because it did not read as a butterfly. Most of the pieces share one construction of this site's own: two slashes for the feelers, a bar or a Y for the body, and wings built from parentheses, slashes and periods. The two smallest squash-proof pieces leave the feelers off, and the one-line butterflies are two curly brackets around an i, a bar or an exclamation mark. The butterflies written with single letters of other scripts are on the butterfly symbols page and none is repeated here. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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