---
name: Playfair Display
date_added: 2018-10-15
category: Display
styles: 6
italic: true
smallcap: true
weights: [{ weight: 400, name: 'Regular' },
          { weight: 700, name: 'Bold' },
          { weight: 900, name: 'Black' }]
latest_release: { version: 'v1.202', date: '5 Nov 2017' }
project_url: https://github.com/clauseggers/Playfair-Display
g_fonts_url: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Playfair+Display
creator: { name: 'Claus Eggers Sørensen', url: 'https://forthehearts.net/' }
description: Playfair Display is a transitional serif well-suited to headlines and titles. It has a very large x-height, short descenders, and extra short capitals. It offers a wide variety of typographic flavor with three weights, a beautiful italic and small caps, and a number of OpenType features.
---

{% assign text = site.data.text %}

<div class='type-detail-table examples-smallcap-italic gr7 gc6'>
  <div class='meta dark top'>
    <p class='name'>Italic smallcap headlines</p>
    <p class='code'>font-feature-settings: 'smcp';</p>
  </div>
  <div class='examples flow-column small-caps'>
    <div>
      <h1 class='w400 ms7 italic' contenteditable='true'>{{ text.headlines[0] }}</h1>
      <p class='character-label'>400</p>
    </div>
    <div>
      <h1 class='w700 ms7 italic' contenteditable='true'>{{ text.headlines[1] }}</h1>
      <p class='character-label'>700</p>
    </div>
    <div>
      <h1 class='w900 ms7 italic' contenteditable='true'>{{ text.headlines[2] }}</h1>
      <p class='character-label'>900</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

<div class='type-detail-table gr4 gc6'>
  <div class='meta dark top'>
    <p class='name'>Standard Ligatures</p>
    <p class='code'>font-feature-settings: 'liga', 'clig';</p>
  </div>
  <div class='examples flow-row'>
    <div><span class='fade'>fb</span> <span class='liga'>fb</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>fb</span> <span class='liga'><em>fb</em></span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>ff</span> <span class='liga'>ff</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>ff</span> <span class='liga italic'>ff</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>ffi</span> <span class='liga'>ffi</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>ffi</span> <span class='liga italic'>ffi</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>ffj</span> <span class='liga'>ffj</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>ffj</span> <span class='liga italic'>ffj</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>fh</span> <span class='liga'>fh</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>fh</span> <span class='liga italic'>fh</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>fi</span> <span class='liga'>fi</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>fi</span> <span class='liga italic'>fi</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>fj</span> <span class='liga'>fj</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>fj</span> <span class='liga italic'>fj</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>fk</span> <span class='liga'>fk</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>fk</span> <span class='liga italic'>fk</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>fl</span> <span class='liga'>fl</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>fl</span> <span class='liga italic'>fl</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>ffl</span> <span class='liga'>ffl</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>ffl</span> <span class='liga italic'>ffl</span></div>
  </div>
</div>

<div class='type-detail-table gr3 gc6'>
  <div class='meta dark top'>
    <p class='name'>Discretionary Ligatures</p>
    <p class='code'>font-feature-settings: 'dlig';</p>
  </div>
  <div class='examples flow-row'>
    <div><span class='fade'>ct</span> <span class='dlig'>ct</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>ct</span> <span class='dlig italic'>ct</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>st</span> <span class='dlig'>st</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>st</span> <span class='dlig italic'>st</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>Th</span> <span class='dlig'>Th</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade italic'>Th</span> <span class='dlig italic'>Th</span></div>
  </div>
</div>

<div class='type-detail-table examples-figures gr6 gc6'>
  <div class='meta dark top'>
    <p class='name'>Figures</p>
  </div>
  <div class='examples flow-column flow-center'>
    <div>
      <h1 class='oldstyle-proportional'>1234567890</h1>
      <p class='character-label'>Proportional Oldstyle (default): 'pnum', 'onum'</p>
    </div>
    <div>
      <h1 class='lining-proportional'>1234567890</h1>
      <p class='character-label'>Proportional Lining: 'pnum', 'lnum'</p>
    </div>
    <div>
      <h1 class='fractions'>1/2 3/4 5/6 7/8 90/123</h1>
      <p class='character-label'>Fractions: 'frac';</p>
    </div>
    <div>
      <h1><span class='fade'>A</span><span class='subscript'>1234567890</span></h1>
      <p class='character-label'>Subscripts: 'subs'</p>
    </div>
    <div>
      <h1><span class='fade'>A</span><span class='superscript'>1234567890</span></h1>
      <p class='character-label'>Superscripts: 'sups'</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

<div class='type-detail-table gr2 gc6'>
  <div class='meta dark top'>
    <p class='name'>Ordinals</p>
    <p class='code'>font-feature-settings: 'ordn';</p>
  </div>
  <div class='examples ordinals flow-row'>
    <div><span class='fade'>3a</span> <span class='ordinals'>3a</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>4o</span> <span class='ordinals'>4o</span></div>
    <div><span class='fade'>No.</span> <span class='ordinals'>No.</span></div>
  </div>
</div>

<div class='type-detail-table gr3 gc6'>
  <div class='meta dark top flex-row'>
    <p class='name'>Special Characters</p> <a href='glyphs/' class='glyph-explorer'>Explore all characters</a>
  </div>
  <div class='examples flow-row'>
    <div><span>&uarr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;uarr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&nearr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;nearr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&rarr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;rarr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&searr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;searr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&darr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;darr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&swarr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;swarr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&larr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;larr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&nwarr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;nwarr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&harr;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;harr;</p></div>
    <div><span>&para;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;para;</p></div>
    <div><span>&sect;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;sect;</p></div>
    <div><span>&dagger;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;dagger;</p></div>
    <div><span>&Dagger;</span> <p class='code'>&amp;Dagger;</p></div>
  </div>
</div>