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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!
3 weights · italic · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Playfair Display SC
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
High
0.859
stroke weight
21% of cap height
0.207
contrast
High
0.817
letter width
Expanded
1.188
Web embed
Use Playfair Display SC on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair+Display+SC:wght@400;700;900;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Playfair Display SC */
body {
font-family: 'Playfair Display SC', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Playfair Display SC
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Claus Eggers Sørensen
- Added to Google Fonts
- October 26, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Playfair Display SC font
Playfair Display SC is a serif typeface designed by Claus Eggers Sørensen, first released to Google Fonts on October 2012. It ships with 3 weights · italic 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 high x-height at 86% of the cap height, expanded 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 Display SC against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Playfair Display SC 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.