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Playfair is a transitional design.
In the European Enlightenment in the late 18th century, broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens as the popular writing tool of the day.
-Together with developments in printing technology, ink, and paper making, it became to print letterforms of high contrast and delicate hairlines that were increasingly detached from the written letterforms.
+Together with developments in printing technology, ink, and paper making, it became fashionable to print letterforms of high contrast and delicate hairlines that were increasingly detached from the written letterforms.
+This design lends itself to this period, and while it is not a revival of any particular design, it takes influence from the designs of John Baskerville and from ‘Scotch Roman’ designs.
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-This design lends itself to this period, and while it is not a revival of any particular design, it takes influence from the designs of John Baskerville and from ‘Scotch Roman’ designs.
-Being a Display (large size) design in the transitional genre, functionally and stylistically it can accompany Georgia for body text.
+This typeface was initially published in 2011, and had a major update in 2017.
+Being a Display (large size) design in the transitional genre, functionally and stylistically it can accompany Georgia or <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gelasio">Gelasio</a> for body text.
+It was succeeded in 2023 by the complete <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Playfair">Playfair</a> design, which as a variable font includes body text designs in the optical size axis.
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-This is the Small Cap sibling family to the main <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Playfair+Display">Playfair Display</a> family.
+This is the Small Cap sibling family to the main <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Playfair+Display">Playfair Display</a> family.
The main family downloaded font files include a full set of small caps, common ligatures, and discretionary ligatures.
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-<p>Updated November 2017 with many small improvements and additional language support.</p>
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The Playfair project is led by Claus Eggers Sørensen, a type designer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/clauseggers/Playfair-Display">github.com/clauseggers/Playfair-Display</a>