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let us play with Playfair Display
First presented at ISDI: Atlasskilltech University
Spring Semester ‘23; DES4.51009 Design Studio-2
Copyright © Urja Shah 2023
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“Playfair Display is a classical typeface with a modern feeling that will give designs the elegance they need. ” -Mana Habibian, 2018.
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black italic has a heavy impact and hence is used in high scale titles
regular italic has a script effect as a serif font, used in subscripts or logos
bold italic is used in logos, hoardings, titles
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bold is used in normal documents as title/subtitles and even in logos
regular font is often used as the body of the text in 24px
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Playfair Display is a serif typeface, hence it goes well with other linear + sans-serif fonts such as Gotham, Lato, Roboto, Neue Helvetica Light, etc. Quite often, the headlines are written in Playfair and the text supporting it is a sans-serif font that matches the same.
Playfair medium and Gotham Thin make an ideal pair.
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