Playfair
New Traditional Transitional
Playfair Display A typeface designed by Claus Eggers Sørensen
Published in 2005 – 2015 SIL International
Designer Yingying Yue
Contents
3 About the Playfair 5 Styles & Weights 7 Letters 11 Punctuation Marks 13 Numbers 15 Ligatures 17 About the Designer 19 More Information
About Playfair
New Traditional Transitional
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layfair is a transitional typeface. It is influenced by Enlightement in the late 18th century and modern typeface designers, such as John Baskerville and William Martin.
It’s both new and traditional. Although it’s a classic serif typeface, it work with vibrant colors well. Of course, it can still deliver a steady feeling. Playfair is designed for titles and headlines. It has large x-height, short desenders and small caps. It also has high contrast storkes and creative swashes, which is very eye-catching in titles. Playfair has two styles and three weights that can compose various combinations. Moreover, Georgia will be the best body type working with Playfair.
2012 May 24 Start
2012 May 26 Regular & Italic
2012 March 15 Latin Script
2012 November 4 Cyrillic Script
2012 September 26 Available on Adobe
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REGULAR / BOLD/ BLACK
S F Y P 8 ; / Styles & Weight /
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I TAL IC / B OL D I TAL IC / B L AC K I TAL IC
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Letters Punctuations Numbers
Elegant Balanced Flourished
g
A large decoratice finial
High contrasted strokes Oblong loop
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CAPS
A B C D E F G H I J K Extremely thin stroke
L M N O P Q R S T U Flourish swash
V W X Y Z / Letters /
Lowercases
a b c d f g h i j l m n o q r s t v w x y
Short descender
e k p u z
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Unique Connection
& Calligraphic stroke
/ Punctuations /
Decorative Swash
Punctuations
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thin strokes
ornate strokes
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Special serif
12345 Unique Connection
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High contrasted strokes
67890 Special serif
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Ligatures
fi ffi fh ffh fj ffj ff fk fi ffi fh ffh fj ffj ff fk fi ffi fh ffh fj ffj ff fi ffi fh ffh fj ffj ff fi ffi fh ffh fj ffj ff fi ffi fh ffh fj ffj ff
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About the Designer
Claus Eggers Sørensen
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laus Eggers Sørensen is a typeface designer. He received a BDes from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and a Master of Arts in Typeface Design at the
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, the University of Reading. He has a background in graphic design and commercial art direction. Though of Danish nationality, he is currently living and working in Amsterdam. In 2011, Claus placed Playfair Display with Google Web Fonts. In 2014, Claus designed Inknut Antiqua, a free angular text typeface family for low resolution screens.
“
Fuck you semi-colon. - Claus Eggers Sørensen
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Operating System: Mac OS Software: Adobe Indesign CC 2017 Copyright: 2017 The Playfair Display Project Authors with Reserved Font Name "Playfair Display". This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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Download
Playfair on Google Fonts for FREE For more about Claus Eggers Sørensen, please visit forthehearts.net
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GRA 437 Prof. Claudia Strong SIL International S.I. Newhouse of Public Communication