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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
7 weights · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Playfair
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.726
stroke weight
11% of cap height
0.113
contrast
High
0.640
letter width
Normal
0.950
Web embed
Use Playfair on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair:wght@300;400;500;600;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Playfair */
body {
font-family: 'Playfair', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Playfair
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Claus Eggers Sørensen
- Added to Google Fonts
- April 12, 2023
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Playfair font
Playfair is a serif typeface designed by Claus Eggers Sørensen, first released to Google Fonts on April 2023. It ships with 7 weights · italic · variable and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 73% of the cap height, normal letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Playfair against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Playfair is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.