Playpen Sans
Designed By
TypeTogether, Laura Meseguer, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione, Kostas Bartsokas, Vera Evstafieva, Tom Grace, Yorlmar Campos
8 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playpen Sans · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
8 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Playpen Sans ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A Note On The Page
Playpen Sans · Regular
A short letter, set in the family.
Thursday afternoon
Dear Alex,
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.
See you there.
8 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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Medium500
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Semi Bold600
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Bold700
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Extra Bold800
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The a in Playpen Sans will not look the same twice in a row. TypeTogether drew 7 versions of each character and built a shuffler into the font that picks among them as you type, so no shape repeats close to itself and a line reads as if somebody wrote it. Most casual fonts run out of alternates long before that, or swap them in clumsily.
The team behind it spent more than 2 years researching how primary schools teach handwriting, work published as Primarium, and the credits are long: Laura Meseguer, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione, Kostas Bartsokas, Vera Evstafieva, Tom Grace and Yorlmar Campos. They made it for people who are not designers.
Greek and Cyrillic are written as if by the same hand as the Latin. Coverage runs to more than 700 Latin-script languages, 619 of them from Sub-Saharan Africa, plus 54 that use Cyrillic, and sister fonts carry the idea into Arabic, Devanagari, Hebrew and Thai.
Details to look for: a double-story a, i, l and y with either straight or curved endings, optional shapes for f, G, I and M. There are 26 emoji as well, a pencil and a dinosaur and a unicorn among them, drawn to match the weights.
8 weights, Thin to ExtraBold. A comic or a classroom worksheet is where it belongs.
Characters & Figures
1,051 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Playpen Sans
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 2.8 MB ↓- Version
- 2.000
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/playpen-sans-2/playpen-sans-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playpen Sans', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playpen Sans Heading · Inter Body
Thursday, Half Past Four
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.