About The Font
Playfair Display is a serif typeface designed by Claus Eggers Sørensen and released in 2011. He is a type designer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His design was heavily influenced by the Enlightenment of the late 18th century. Initially, there are three weights plus small caps, each with italics. The Playfair Display family is a transitional one when it comes to design. You can use it for everything from body text to display titles and short paragraphs of text.
The original font designer took John Baskerville’s designs and Scottish Roman designs into consideration in the font design. As a large display (transitional) design, it works well with Georgia for body text both functionally and in terms of style.
In November 2017, Playfair Display Font was updated to add additional full Latin language support and minor improvements. The Playfair Display SC small-caps font has only been added to the main family of small caps. Mark Simonson later updated it in 2018 for improved language support and small caps support on Mac OS X systems using Apple’s TrueType collection of fonts (TTC). The TTC version has all the ligatures before Mac OS 10.7 (Lion), but they don’t show up on Mac OS X systems before 10.7. Later in August 2019, the designer made the Playfair Display into a variable. This makes it a sibling of the original font, which was made into a variable font.
Playfair is part of Google’s font libraries. This project is open-source, and anyone can contribute.
Contribution URL: https://github.com/clauseggers/Playfair-Display
Usage
Playfair Display is an excellent option for text content that needs to be legible and stylish at the same time. The typeface comes in various weights and styles for personal and professional projects. You can also use it for everything from printing to displaying.
People who use Playfair Display like how it has rounded corners and thin lines, which gives it a modern and stylish look. Due to its modern, geometric appearance, you can use it for various applications. It is well suited for titles and headlines. The x-height is extra wide, and the descenders are short.
The font has a condensed and modern style with a touch of antiquity. The typeface supports the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic languages.
Font information
| Name | Playfair Display |
| Style | Serif |
| Designer | Claus Eggers Sørensen |
| File Format | OTF and TTF. |
| Font Licence | Free for commercial and personal use. |
| Type | Basic |
Font View
To better understand how the characters will appear on your creative projects, you can preview them before downloading the typeface.
Fonts Family
- Playfair Display Regular
- Playfair Display Italic
- Playfair Display Bold
- Playfair Display Bold Italic
- Playfair Display Black
- Playfair Display Black Italic
- Playfair Display SC Regular
- Playfair Display SC Italic
- Playfair Display SC Bold
- Playfair Display SC Bold Italic
- Playfair Display SC Black
- Playfair Display SC Black Italic
Similar Fonts
There are a number of other awesome fonts which are similar to the Playfair Display Font.
- Guardian Egyptian font
- Trivia Serif
- Georgia
- Libre Baskerville
- Acta Display
Font Pairing
You can create high-quality designs with several different Playfair Display font combinations.
Download
You can download the font below for your personal and commercial projects.
Supported Languages
The font support many languages. Its supports Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arapaho, Aromanian, Arrernte, Asturian, Aymara, Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Chichewa (Nyanja), Cimbrian, Corsican, Croatian, Cyrillic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, French Creole (Saint Lucia), Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Genoese, German, Gilbertese (Kiribati), Greenlandic, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hmong, Hopi, Hungarian, Ibanag, Icelandic, Iloko (Ilokano), Indonesian, Interglossa (Glosa), Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jèrriais, Karachay (Cyrillic), Kashubian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgian, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese, Manx, Maori, Megleno-Romanian, Mohawk, Nahuatl, etc.
License Information
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License. You can use them freely in your products & projects – print or digital, commercial or otherwise. It isn’t legal advice. Please consider consulting a lawyer and see the full license for all details.
FAQs
Ans: The Playfair Display font is a serif typeface.
Ans: The type designer, Claus Eggers Sørensen designed the font in 2011.
Ans: Yes, you can safely download The Playfair Display font on your PC and MAC.
Ans: The Playfair Display font itself is a Google Font. You can also search for it in your Google Font libraries.
Ans: As mentioned in the usage section, its most appropriate use is as a title or heading.
Ans: You can use this font on any online platform.
Ans: Yes, it’s an open-license font for personal and commercial use.
Ans: Yes, this font is compatible with the web.
Ans: You could use the “Guardian Egyptian font” as a free alternative.
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