Playwrite PT
Designed By
TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playwrite PT · 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 PT ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Saudades from the riverside café
A Note On The Page
Playwrite PT · 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
Saudades from the riverside café
Extra Light200
Saudades from the riverside café
Light300
Saudades from the riverside café
Regular400
Saudades from the riverside café
Start with the f. Its descender loop is mirrored, and it is 1 of a handful of small habits in Playwrite PT that come straight from the way Portuguese children are taught to write. The o, v, w and z tie little knots where the stroke doubles back, the z has a flat top, and m, n, v and w all begin on a curved entry stroke, so a word arrives already moving.
It is part of Playwrite, TypeTogether’s school font series by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, which grew out of Primarium, a project recording the handwriting models taught in primary schools country by country. Portuguese schools get to choose their own method as long as they meet the national curriculum goals. Most start 5 and 6 year olds on letra impressa, print letters beginning with the capitals, and then move them on to escrita vertical, a fully joined upright cursive. Playwrite PT is that second stage, continuous and vertical, with looped ascenders and descenders of medium length.
The capitals are where it gets decorative. You will not mistake its Q for anyone else’s, and the S stands on a vertical stem.
What the download gives you:
- 4 weights, Thin 100 up to Regular 400
- 9 stylistic sets, with contextual alternates doing the joins
- support for over 150 Latin-based languages, Vietnamese among them
Those joins depend on contextual alternates, so in Word open the Advanced tab of the font dialog and turn them on, or the letters will sit apart. Leave the B and I buttons alone too. There is no bold or italic in the family, and what the software fakes looks poor.
For classrooms there is a sibling, Playwrite PT Guides, made as a visual aid for children. Outside school we would use the main font for cards and short notes, and keep Thin for 28 px and up.
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 PT
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 388 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-pt-2/playwrite-pt-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite PT', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playwrite PT 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.