Playfair
Display Specimen
Playfair Display Type Specimen for Playfair Display Editor and Designer: Rachel Schwartz Spring 2018
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Table Contents
08 Key Points 09 About Playfair
11 Ligatures 12 About Claus 13 Fonts 15 Anatomy 17 Numbers & Symbols 19 Licensing 22 Colophon
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Striking
Eccentric Innovative Meticulous
Creative Sophisticated
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high contrast delicate hairlines transitional design
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Playfair Display is an elegant and showstopping typeface, also commonly referred to as a transitional design. Playfair was designed in 2011 by Danish designer, Claus Eggers Sørensen. While this typeface is uniquely it’s own, Eggers Sørensen was heavily influenced by the works of late 18th century designers John Baskerville, and William Martin. 6
AAA Playfair Display is perfect for headlines and titles. With extra large x-heights, and short descenders, Playfair Display can easily be set with no leading. This makes this typeface ideal for stylistic freedom in setting titles and writing news headlines. Playfair Display also consists of extra short capitals that are only slightly heavier than the lowercase letters.
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� � � ��� �� � Playfair Display includes a full set of small-caps, common ligatures, and discretionary ligatures. Including a set of eight arrow devices.
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Claus Eggers Sørensen Originally born in Denmark, Claus Eggers Sørensen currently resides in The Netherlands working simaltaneously as a graphic designer and as a commercial art director. His first degree was a BDes from the The Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He is so smart, so he decided to continue learning as much as he could and went back to school. He got his MA at The University of Reading, The Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. 9
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weights ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz !@#$%^&*() 16 pt. Regular
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz !@#$%^&*() 16 pt. Italic
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz !@#$%^&*() 15 pt. Bold 10
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styles ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz !@#$%^&*() 15 pt. Bold Italic
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz !@#$%^&*() 15 pt. Black
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz !@#$%^&*() 14 pt. Black Italic
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ovular counter
charmingly curved tail
H thin crossbar bublous ball terminal
anatomy
F rounded tittle
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bracketed beak
i delicate hairline
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Numbers
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01234 56789 ~!@#$%&*() _-+={}[]|\'";:? /><,. 15
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Playfair Display is published under the Open Font License 1.1. This license stipulates that anyone can use this typeface, if they please, free of charge. An Open Font License is amazing for any designer due to the fact that this type of license allows users to extend & modify the typeface to their liking. This typeface is available on Google Fonts, as well as fontsquirrel.com.
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This Playfair Display specimen was designed for Claudia Strong's GRA 437- Typographic Design class. This specimen was created for Spring 2018 at Syracuse University. The specimen was created using Adobe InDesign CC 2017 on a Macbook Pro (OS X Yosemite 10.10.5). The only typeface used throughout the entire specimen was Playfair Display designed by Claus Eggers Sørensen. This specimen was created after, maybe, two or three concept switches, and a week full of staying up long enough to hear the birds chirp.
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