FONTLOG: Playfair Display

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  Playfair Display
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  This file provides detailed information on the Playfair 
  Display font software.
  This information should be distributed along with the 
  Playfair Display font and any derivative works.
  
  Playfair Display Font Information
  
  Playfair is a transitional design. From the time of 
  enlightenment in the late 18th century, the broad nib 
  quills were replaced by pointed steel pens. This influenced 
  typographical letterforms to become increasingly detached 
  from the written ones. Developments in printing technology, 
  ink, and paper making, made it possible to print 
  letterforms of high contrast and delicate hairlines.
  
  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 printer and typeface designer John 
  Baskerville, the punchcutter William Martin’s typeface 
  for the ‘Boydell Shakspeare’(sic) edition, and from the 
  ‘Scotch Roman’designs that followed thereafter.
  
  As the name indicates, Playfair Display is well suited for 
  titling and headlines. It has an extra large x-height and 
  short descenders. It can be set with no leading if space is 
  tight, for instance in news headlines, or for stylistic 
  effect in titles. Capitals are extra short, and only very 
  slightly heavier than the lowercase characters. This helps 
  achieve a more even typographical colour when typesetting 
  proper nouns and initialisms. Languages, like German, where 
  nouns are capitalized, particularly benefit from this lower 
  contrast between lower and upper case glyphs. In German, 
  with its many capitalised words, and in other European 
  languages that use many diacritical characters, it is 
  advised to use more leading.
  
  Being a transitional design, stylistically Playfair can 
  accompany Georgia, where Georgia is used for body text.
  
  Playfair includes a full set of small caps, common 
  ligatures, and discretionary ligatures. For Polish, a set 
  of alternate diacritical characters designed with 
  ‘kreska’s are included. All European languages using 
  the latin script are supported. A set of eight arrow 
  devices are also included.
  
  
  ChangeLog
  
  6 Nov 2015 (Christoph Haag)
- created fontforge sources as base to work on GNU/Linux
- added FONTLOG to .sfdir
- Mastered Font from Fontforge SFDIR to 
  UFO,OTF,TTF,EOT,WOFF,SVG
  
  3 Dec 2013 (Claus Eggers Sørensen) Playfair Display v1.004
- Small fixes
  
  26 Oct 2012 (Claus Eggers Sørensen) Playfair Display v1.002
- Final family release
- UFOs are copies of the Glyphs files
  
  
  If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), 
  email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and 
  description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.
  
  N: Christoph Haag
  E: christoph.[.AT.].lafkon.net
  W: www.lafkon.net
  D: Transformer
  
  N: Claus Eggers Sørensen
  E: es.[.AT.].forthehearts.net
  W: www.forthehearts.net
  D: Designer and Mastering


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  Playfair Display Bold
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  see above
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  Playfair Display Black Italic
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  see above
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  Playfair Display Black
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  see above
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  Playfair Display Bold Italic
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  see above
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  Playfair Display Italic
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  see above