Playfair Display
Playfair Display is a high-contrast transitional serif inspired by late 18th-century letterpress types, built for large sizes.
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About Playfair Display
Playfair Display is a high-contrast transitional serif inspired by late 18th-century letterpress types, built for large sizes.
Use it for editorial headlines, fashion and restaurant layouts, and pair it with a plain sans for body copy.
Where can you use Playfair Display?
Typical uses include editorial headlines, logos, invitations. Test it at the sizes you actually plan to publish: display styles lose detail in small interface text, and text styles can look flat in a large headline.
Before you use it commercially, open the licence that comes with the file. Free download does not always mean free commercial use, and web embedding is sometimes licensed separately. Our font licensing guide explains the common licence types in plain language.
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FAQ
Playfair Display is a high-contrast transitional serif inspired by late 18th-century letterpress types, built for large sizes.
Playfair Display is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows free personal and commercial use, embedding and modification. Read the licence file in the download before redistributing it.
On Windows, right-click the font file and choose Install, or drag it into Settings > Personalisation > Fonts. On macOS, double-click the file and press Install Font in Font Book. On Android and iOS you need a font-installer or design app. Restart the application you are working in so Playfair Display appears in its font menu.
Close alternatives in the same category include Amiri Font, Baskerville Font, Cambria Font. The related fonts grid on this page is generated from the same category, so it updates as the directory grows.