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 ZA
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
0.522
stroke weight
18% of cap height
0.177
contrast
Low
0.000
letter width
Normal
1.087
Web embed
Use Playwrite ZA on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playwrite+ZA:wght@100;200;300;400&display=swap');
/* Playwrite ZA */
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite ZA', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Playwrite ZA
- 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 ZA font
Playwrite ZA 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 ZA against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Playwrite ZA 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.