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Playfair Display

Playfair Display is a serif font in 6 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are about as wide as the typical serif font. Last updated 11 September 2025.

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Playfair Display Regular
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Editing a PDF that uses Playfair Display

Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Playfair Display from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Playfair Display itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.

Measured metrics

Average lowercase letter width509.2 units per 1000 em
Average capital letter width642.3 units per 1000 em
Word space249 units per 1000 em
Digitsproportional (digit widths differ)
Spacingproportional
Width of i compared with m33%
Printable ASCII characters covered94 of 94
CategorySerif

Weights and styles

Languages beyond basic Latin

Open fonts closest to Playfair Display

Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.

  1. Alice Regularsimilar widths (27.4 units)
  2. Alike Regularloosely similar widths (32.1 units)
  3. Vollkorn Regularloosely similar widths (32.1 units)
  4. Enriqueta Regularloosely similar widths (32.2 units)
  5. Alike Angular Regularloosely similar widths (32.3 units)
  6. Shanti Regularloosely similar widths (32.7 units)
  7. Philosopher Regularloosely similar widths (32.8 units)
  8. El Messiri Regularloosely similar widths (32.8 units)

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Questions people ask

+Can I edit a PDF that uses Playfair Display?

Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Playfair Display itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.

+Is Playfair Display free to use?

Playfair Display is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.

+Which font is closest to Playfair Display?

By measured letter widths, Alice is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 27.4 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.

+Which languages does Playfair Display support?

It includes these character sets: Cyrillic, Latin, Central European, Vietnamese.

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