Playwrite AU SA
Designed By
TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playwrite AU SA · 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 SA ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Lunch is in the blue tin
A Note On The Page
Playwrite AU SA · 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
Lunch is in the blue tin
Extra Light200
Lunch is in the blue tin
Light300
Lunch is in the blue tin
Regular400
Lunch is in the blue tin
The capital I in Playwrite AU SA has serifs, small bars at top and bottom, which most school hands leave off. The k is made with 2 strokes. The q ends in a short flick to the right. These are the letters a South Australian teacher would recognize, because this font draws the cursive taught in that state.
All Australian states teach a modern cursive, and all of them trace it to 1990, when the Australian Education Council recommended a single model based on Tom Gourdie’s Simple Modern Hand, so a child who moved interstate would not have to relearn writing. The 5 main models have drifted since.
South Australia’s version is slanted and only semi-connected. The capitals look like print, there are no loops on the ascenders or descenders, and letters with a descender do not join the next letter, which keeps the hand moving quickly. G is open with no crossbar, the f stands apart with a straight tail, and r and z take their italic shapes.
Veronika Burian and José Scaglione drew it at TypeTogether for the Playwrite school series, 4 weights from Thin to Regular with no bold. There is a companion with ruled guides, Playwrite AU SA Guides, for practice sheets.
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 AU SA
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-sa-2/playwrite-au-sa-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite AU SA', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playwrite AU SA 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.