Playwrite AU NSW
Designed By
TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playwrite AU NSW · 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 AU NSW ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Excursion forms due by Friday
A Note On The Page
Playwrite AU NSW · 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
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Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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In 1990 Australia tried to get every school writing the same way. The Australian Education Council recommended a model based on the Simple Modern Hand of Tom Gourdie, a Scottish calligrapher, so that a student who changed states would not land in a classroom with a different alphabet on the wall. It half worked. Each state still teaches its own version, called script locally, and the 5 main models have since moved apart in the details.
Playwrite AU NSW is the New South Wales one.
It is a fast hand, slanted, with print capitals and plain loopless ascenders and descenders, and only partly joined, since a letter with a descender does not connect to the next. The open G without a crossbar and the unusual Y are shared with South Australia’s model. What sets NSW apart is in the lowercase: b and p with closed bowls, a disconnected f with a straight tail, r and z in their italic forms.
TypeTogether made it, with Veronika Burian and José Scaglione as designers, in 4 weights from Thin to Regular. In Word, switch on contextual alternates under Font, Advanced, or the joins will be missing. We would use it big, for newsletter headings and classroom labels, with a plain sans doing the reading text.
Characters & Figures
486 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Playwrite AU NSW
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 412 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-au-nsw-2/playwrite-au-nsw-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite AU NSW', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playwrite AU NSW 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.