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!
1 weight · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Playwrite NZ Basic Guides
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
0.996
stroke weight
27% of cap height
0.274
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Normal
1.022
Web embed
Use Playwrite NZ Basic Guides on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playwrite+NZ+Basic+Guides&display=swap');
/* Playwrite NZ Basic Guides */
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite NZ Basic Guides', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Playwrite NZ Basic Guides
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Playwrite NZ Basic Guides.
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Details
- Family
- Playwrite NZ Basic Guides
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
- Added to Google Fonts
- January 27, 2026
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Playwrite NZ Basic Guides font
Playwrite NZ Basic Guides is a handwriting typeface designed by TypeTogether and Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, first released to Google Fonts on January 2026. It ships with 1 weight 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 100% 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 Playwrite NZ Basic Guides against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Playwrite NZ Basic Guides 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.