Download Playfair Display Font Free – Elegant Serif Typeface for Web & Print

Playfair Display is an elegant serif typeface inspired by the high-contrast letterforms of the late 18th century. Designed for headlines and display use, it features dramatic thick-thin transitions, sharp serifs, and a refined, classical aesthetic. Its sophisticated character makes it ideal for luxury branding, editorial design, and any project seeking timeless typographic grace.

Playfair is well suited for general purpose typesetting. Playfair can be interpolated in three dimensions: Width, Weight and Optical Size.

The optical size axis is the most extreme of the axes. Along that axis you can seamlessly change the letterforms from the extremely small Agate (5pt) to the extremely big Needlepoint (1200pt). The Agate has a very low contrast between the thickest and thinnest parts of its strokes, in fact the contrast is even slightly negative, meaning the the horisontal strokes are heavier than the vertical strokes. At the other end the Needlepoint is as high contrast as practically possible. The thinnest strokes are but a single unit wide, meaning that if you were to typeset in 1000 points using a Needlepoint weight, the resulting thinnest strokes would be one point wide. The weight axis adds a second dimension by allowing you to seamlessly change from a light regular to a dark black.

An update in June 2023 slightly modifies the width axis, giving the text a narrower appearance.

In February 2025, a glyphset update improves the language support by adding African.

To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/Playfair.