From: Dave Crossland Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 18:00:45 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Update playfairdisplaysc/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F7148%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fgoogle%2Ffonts.git Update playfairdisplaysc/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html --- diff --git a/ofl/playfairdisplaysc/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html b/ofl/playfairdisplaysc/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html index 5539bda891..735405c2c1 100644 --- a/ofl/playfairdisplaysc/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html +++ b/ofl/playfairdisplaysc/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html @@ -1,17 +1,18 @@

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.

-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 Gelasio for body text. +It was succeeded in 2023 by the complete Playfair design, which as a variable font includes body text designs in the optical size axis.

-This is the Small Cap sibling family to the main Playfair Display family. +This is the Small Cap sibling family to the main Playfair Display family. The main family downloaded font files include a full set of small caps, common ligatures, and discretionary ligatures.

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Updated November 2017 with many small improvements and additional language support.

The Playfair project is led by Claus Eggers Sørensen, a type designer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. To contribute, see github.com/clauseggers/Playfair-Display