Playwrite PE
Designed By
TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playwrite PE · 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 PE ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Thank you for the lovely tea
A Note On The Page
Playwrite PE · 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
Thank you for the lovely tea
Extra Light200
Thank you for the lovely tea
Light300
Thank you for the lovely tea
Regular400
Thank you for the lovely tea
Peru has no national handwriting model. With no curriculum guideline to follow, schools teach whatever they choose: most start children on print capitals and move to joined cursive later, some begin with cursive in first grade, some never teach it, and private schools may import a model from abroad, like the English Sassoon hand used in Spanish-English bilingual schools.
So Playwrite PE, drawn by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione of TypeTogether, had to settle on a single shape out of a lot of local variety. They chose an upright, continuous cursive with medium ascenders and descenders and looped extenders.
Letters to look for
- The capitals are cursive, and F, R and O get fairly complex forms.
- G owes more to American handwriting than to the vertical French cursives.
- The k is built from 2 strokes.
- f drops a straight descender; v and w each tie a small knot.
Like every Playwrite font, it came out of Primarium, a project that documents the handwriting models taught in primary schools around the world. There are 4 weights, Thin to Regular, and a separate Playwrite PE Guides font that adds ruled lines for children practicing.
A practical note. The joins rely on contextual alternates, which Word keeps in its Advanced font settings; turn them on there, and do not press the B or I buttons; the family has no bold or italic and the app will fake them badly.
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 PE
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 396 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-pe-2/playwrite-pe-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite PE', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playwrite PE 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.