- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- A shared mood: vintage
Playball
About the font
Playball is a free font by Robert Leuschke, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 359 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 40% of the em and the capital height is 71%.
Playball is a display font by Robert Leuschke, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which makes it free to use. It has a single style at weight 400 and is not a variable font. The font contains 785 glyphs and supports the Latin script. According to its source, it was inspired by an athletic look and includes sweeping swashes.
Author
Robert Leuschke
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
785
Character and uses
- Mood
- vintage
- bold
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Playball has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 359 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
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- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Acoli
- Kongo
- Bini
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Makhuwa-Meetto
…and 254 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Not included
- Numero sign — Not included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 554
- x-height
- 40% of the em
- Capital height
- 71% of the em
- Version
- 1.010
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Kerning
kern - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Swashes
swsh - Stylistic sets (2)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Playball
- Designer’s page
- typesetit.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Playball font free to use?
Yes. Playball is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Playball support Cyrillic?
No, Playball supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Playball support?
Playball covers 359 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Playball?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Playball?
Playball was created by Robert Leuschke.
What is Playball good for?
Judging by its design, Playball suits: posters, logos, headings, social media.
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