Playwrite AR
Designed By
TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playwrite AR · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Playwrite AR ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Querida abuela, te extraño mucho
A Note On The Page
Playwrite AR · 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.
4 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
Querida abuela, te extraño mucho
Extra Light200
Querida abuela, te extraño mucho
Light300
Querida abuela, te extraño mucho
Regular400
Querida abuela, te extraño mucho
To finish a q in Playwrite AR you lift the pen and add a crossbar, the way children in Argentina are taught to. The o carries a small knot, and the ascenders and descender loops run long.
Argentine handwriting for primary schools, like much of South America’s, comes from the tradition of the French Normal schools. It is a round, continuous cursive with upright letters, capitals that connect only partly to what follows, and curved entry strokes on the small letters. Children learn print capitals first, then print lowercase in 1st grade, and move to joined cursive in 1st or 2nd grade, even though the curriculum cares more about composition and comprehension than about handwriting as such.
Veronika Burian and José Scaglione’s studio TypeTogether built the font from that model as part of Playwrite, a series that draws on the Primarium research into school handwriting around the world. The connected writing comes from OpenType features, so an app that leaves them switched off will show the letters unjoined.
4 weights, Thin to Regular. A sibling, Playwrite AR Guides, adds guidelines as a visual aid for young writers.
Characters & Figures
486 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Playwrite AR
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 383 KB ↓- Version
- 1.003
- 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/playwrite-ar-2/playwrite-ar-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite AR', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playwrite AR 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.