Playpen Sans Deva
Designed By
TypeTogether, Pooja Saxena, Gunjan Panchal, Laura Meseguer, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
8 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playpen Sans Deva · 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 Deva ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Great work today, see you Monday
A Note On The Page
Playpen Sans Deva · 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
Great work today, see you Monday
Extra Light200
Great work today, see you Monday
Light300
Great work today, see you Monday
Regular400
Great work today, see you Monday
Medium500
Great work today, see you Monday
Semi Bold600
Great work today, see you Monday
Bold700
Great work today, see you Monday
Extra Bold800
Great work today, see you Monday
Type the same letter 3 times in Playpen Sans Deva and the copies will not all match. Each character has alternates, and a built-in shuffler swaps them in as you type, so no shape repeats too closely and a line reads like something written by hand. You do nothing to make it happen.
The Devanagari was worked out by drawing letters and combinations by hand over and over, then keeping the most natural shapes. Small gaps are left in the headline, the bar along the top of the letters, and some joins are deliberately imperfect, with the odd overlap. Pooja Saxena and Gunjan Panchal are credited alongside Laura Meseguer, Veronika Burian and José Scaglione of TypeTogether, and the work came after more than 2 years of research into handwriting education through the Primarium project.
It covers 3 Devanagari languages and over 332 written in Latin. Weights go from Thin to Extra Bold, 8 in all, and there is a small set of “reward” emoji drawn to match. Sister fonts handle Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, and Greek and Cyrillic with Pan-African Latin.
For a storybook in Devanagari or a birthday card, it is very hard to beat. We would not use it for anything that needs to look official.
Characters & Figures
538 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Playpen Sans Deva
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 2.7 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-deva/playpen-sans-deva.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playpen Sans Deva', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playpen Sans Deva 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.