- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Playfair
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Playfair is a free font by Claus Eggers Sørensen, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 914 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 41% of the em and the capital height is 57%.
Playfair is a display font that supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts, including the extra Cyrillic letters needed for Kazakh. The family has 14 styles with weights from 300 to 900 and is a variable font. It contains 2316 glyphs in total. The font is free to use under the OFL-1.1 license.
Author
Claus Eggers Sørensen
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
2316
Character and uses
- Mood
- vintage
- friendly
- Design
- slab serif
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Playfair has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 914 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Hakka Chinese
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Yoruba
- Igbo
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- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Tunisian Arabic
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Kanuri
- Catalan
- Mossi
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Ewe
- Mandingo
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Lingala
- Central Atlas Tamazight
- Tiv
- Kabyle
- Bikol
- Fon
…and 803 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 — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1110
- x-height
- 41% of the em
- Capital height
- 57% of the em
- Version
- 2.203
- 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 - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Small capitals
smcp - Capitals to small capitals
c2sc - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (4)
- Character variants (1)
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/Playfair
- Designer’s page
- forthehearts.net
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Playfair font free to use?
Yes. Playfair is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Playfair support Cyrillic?
Yes, Playfair includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Playfair support?
Playfair covers 914 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.
Is Playfair a variable font?
Yes. Playfair is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Playfair?
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 Playfair?
Playfair was created by Claus Eggers Sørensen.
What is Playfair good for?
Judging by its design, Playfair suits: headings, magazines and editorial, body text, posters.
Pairs well with Playfair
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