Playfair Display font

Serif by Claus Eggers Sørensen. 6 weights (variable, 400 to 900) with matching italics.

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About Playfair Display

Playfair Display is a high-contrast serif by Claus Eggers Sorensen in the transitional style, with thin hairlines and thick stems. It is meant for large sizes, where those contrasts look sharp. It is a variable font from 400 to 900 with italics. Use it for headlines, magazine-style layouts and wedding or fashion pages, paired with a plain sans for text.

Playfair Display facts

Designer
Claus Eggers Sørensen
Category
Serif
Styles
6 weights (variable, 400 to 900) with matching italics
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Added to Google Fonts
November 16, 2011
Supported scripts
Cyrillic, Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
Variable axes
Weight 400 to 900

Playfair Display pairs well with

Playfair Display also appears as a companion on:

Use Playfair Display on your site

Add the link tags inside the head of your page, then set the font in your CSS.

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400..900;1,400..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif;

These are Google Fonts, made by the designers named on each page and published free under an open licence. Zaps lists them, and downloads come from Google Fonts. Playfair Display was designed by Claus Eggers Sørensen.

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