Specimen
Handgloves
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!
8 weights · variable · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Playpen Sans
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
0.698
stroke weight
18% of cap height
0.177
contrast
Low
0.045
letter width
Normal
1.017
Web embed
Use Playpen Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playpen+Sans:wght@100;200;300;400&display=swap');
/* Playpen Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Playpen Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Playpen Sans
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Playpen Sans.
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Details
- Family
- Playpen Sans
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- TypeTogether, Laura Meseguer, Veronika Burian
- Added to Google Fonts
- September 6, 2023
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, emoji, greek, latin, latin-ext, math, vietnamese
About the Playpen Sans font
Playpen Sans is a handwriting typeface designed by TypeTogether and Laura Meseguer and Veronika Burian, first released to Google Fonts on September 2023. It ships with 8 weights · 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 70% of the cap height, normal letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Playpen Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Playpen Sans 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.