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!
4 weights · variable · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Playwrite US Trad
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
Low
0.521
stroke weight
21% of cap height
0.211
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Normal
1.106
Web embed
Use Playwrite US Trad on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playwrite+US+Trad:wght@100;200;300;400&display=swap');
/* Playwrite US Trad */
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite US Trad', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Playwrite US Trad
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 29, 2024
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Playwrite US Trad font
Playwrite US Trad is a handwriting typeface designed by TypeTogether and Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, first released to Google Fonts on May 2024. It ships with 4 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 low x-height at 52% 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 US Trad against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Playwrite US Trad 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.