Playwrite US Modern
Designed By
TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playwrite US Modern · 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 US Modern ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Practice makes it neat
A Note On The Page
Playwrite US Modern · 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
Practice makes it neat
Extra Light200
Practice makes it neat
Light300
Practice makes it neat
Regular400
Practice makes it neat
There is no national handwriting model in the United States. Private companies fill the gap, each with its own approach, and the handwriting expert Kate Gladstone has said it is hard to know for certain which models are taught most. Zaner-Bloser and D’Nealian, both traditional in style, are among the most widespread, along with Handwriting Without Tears.
Playwrite US Modern follows the other branch. Modern cursive programs such as Getty-Dubay and Barchowsky Fluent Hand are gaining ground fast, with children and also with adults who want to improve their handwriting.
The letters here are fully upright and only semi-connected. Ascenders and descenders are loopless and of medium length, and the capitals are simplified print, with a serif on the I and an M whose center is raised. An odd touch: m, n and r start with a curved entry stroke, a small complication in an otherwise lean hand.
TypeTogether, with Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, built it within Playwrite, the school fonts based on Primarium’s research. It comes in Thin, ExtraLight, Light and Regular and covers more than 150 Latin-based languages. There is a ruled sibling, Playwrite US Modern Guides, for practice sheets. We would hand it to an adult learner before a child, since its plain shapes make a sensible model for tidying up a grown-up scrawl.
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 US Modern
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 387 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-us-modern-2/playwrite-us-modern-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite US Modern', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playwrite US Modern 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.