payment: NONE

license: OFL
category: serif
subsets: menu,latin,latin-ext

family: Playfair Display

designer: Claus Eggers Sørensen

approved: true
description: <p>Playfair is a transitional design. \
  From the time of enlightenment in the late 18th \
  century, the broad nib quills were replaced by \
  pointed steel pens. This influenced typographical \
  letterforms to become increasingly detached from \
  the written ones. Developments in printing \
  technology, ink and paper making, made it \
  possible to print letterforms of high contrast \
  and delicate hairlines.</p> \
  <p>This design lends itself to this period, \
  and while it is not a revival of any particular \
  design, it takes influence from the designs \
  of printer and typeface designer John \
  Baskerville, the punchcutter William Martin’s \
  typeface for the ‘Boydell Shakspeare’ (sic) \
  edition, and from the ‘Scotch Roman’ designs \
  that followed thereafter.</p> \
  <p>As the name indicates, Playfair Display \
  is well suited for titling and headlines. It \
  has an extra large x-height and short descenders. \
  It can be set with no leading if space is tight, \
  for instance in news headlines, or for stylistic \
  effect in titles. Capitals are extra short, and \
  only very slightly heavier than the lowercase \
  characters. This helps achieve a more even \
  typographical colour when typesetting proper \
  nouns and initialisms. Languages, like German, \
  where nouns are capitalized, particularly \
  benefit from this lower contrast between lower \
  and upper case glyphs. In German, with it's \
  many capitalized words, and other European \
  languages that use many diacritical characters, \
  it is advised to use more leading.</p> \
  <p>Being a transitional design, stylistically \
  Playfair can accompany Georgia, where Georgia \
  is used for body text.</p> \
  <p>Playfair includes a full set of small \
  caps, common ligatures, and discretionary \
  ligatures. For Polish, a set of alternate \
  diacritical characters designed with \
  ‘kreska’s are included. All European languages \
  using the latin script are supported. →A set \
  of eight arrow devices are also included←.</p>

font.PlayfairDisplay-Regular.ttf.style: normal
font.PlayfairDisplay-SemiBold.ttf.style: normal
font.PlayfairDisplay-Bold.ttf.style: normal
font.PlayfairDisplay-Black.ttf.style: normal

font.PlayfairDisplay-Italic.ttf.style: italic
font.PlayfairDisplay-SemiBoldItalic.ttf.style: italic
font.PlayfairDisplay-BoldItalic.ttf.style: italic
font.PlayfairDisplay-BlackItalic.ttf.style: italic

# 2010-11-03 DC This needs more checking/refining
font.PlayfairDisplay-Regular.ttf.weight: 400
font.PlayfairDisplay-SemiBold.ttf.weight: 600
font.PlayfairDisplay-Bold.ttf.weight: 700
font.PlayfairDisplay-Black.ttf.weight: 900

font.PlayfairDisplay-Italic.ttf.weight: 400
font.PlayfairDisplay-SemiBoldItalic.ttf.weight: 600
font.PlayfairDisplay-BoldItalic.ttf.weight: 700
font.PlayfairDisplay-BlackItalic.ttf.weight: 900

# cd ~/src/font-optimizer; \
# ./subset.pl -v --licensesubst="SIL OFL 1.1" \
#  --exclude="c2sc,smcp,ordn,sups,sinf,subs,dlig,frac" \
#  --chars="Playfair Display" \
# ~/googlefontdirectory/playfairdisplay/PlayfairDisplay-Regular.{ttf,menu}; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/playfairdisplay/; \
# ~/googlefontdirectory/tools/chars/showchars.py \
#  PlayfairDisplay-Regular.menu; \

# rm *.nam *.log *.latin *.latin-ext *.cyrillic+latin *.cyrillic-ext+latin *.greek+latin *.greek-ext+latin; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/; \
# for family in playfairdisplay; do \
#    for font in `ls -1 $family/*ttf | cut -d. -f1`; do \
#        for subset in \
#            latin latin-ext; do \
#            echo subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip --namelist --script \
#                --subset=$subset $font.ttf $font.$subset; \
#            python tools/subset/subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip \
#                --namelist --script --subset=$subset \
#                $font.ttf $font.$subset > $font.$subset.log; \
#        done; \
#    done; \
# done; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/playfairdisplay/; \
