Playfair
About Playfair
The variable version of Playfair by Claus Eggers Sørensen is a major evolution of the acclaimed display serif, now exposing optical size, width, and weight axes simultaneously — making it one of the most technically sophisticated editorial serifs in the open-source ecosystem. The high stroke contrast and small-cap-influenced proportions reference eighteenth-century typefaces by Caslon and Baskerville, while the variable design allows a single font file to serve both delicate caption text and bold display headlines. Cyrillic and Vietnamese coverage gives it range for multilingual luxury and editorial publishing.
Character Map
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Weight Waterfall (7)
How to Use
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair:wght@300;500;600;700;800;900;400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair:wght@300;500;600;700;800;900;400&display=swap');font-family: 'Playfair', serif;brew install --cask font-playfairOn this page
Details
- Category
- Serif
- Weights
- 7
- Italic
- ✓
- Korean
- ✗
- Designer
- Claus Eggers Sørensen
- License
- OFL
- Version
- Popularity
- #223
- Downloads
- 655
License Usage
| Web use | Allowed |
| Allowed | |
| Video / Broadcast | Allowed |
| Packaging | Allowed |
| App embedding | Allowed |
| Brand / Logo | Allowed |
| Modification | Allowed |
OFL — Free for personal & commercial use
Language Support
Best For
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Playfair font free for commercial use?
Yes — Playfair is an open-source font, free to use in personal and commercial projects.
What type of typeface is Playfair?
Playfair is a Serif typeface. It is offered as a variable font.
What does Playfair support?
Playfair primarily supports text.