Playball

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Playball Regular

About Playball

Playball is a script typeface with a strong forward slant and lowercase letters that link into one another. Its strokes are fuller and less contrasted than those of a formal pointed-pen script, which makes words look brushed, quick and energetic. The capitals begin with long horizontal entry swashes, clearly visible on A, P, T and F in the specimen. Robert Leuschke took an athletic look as the starting point, and the official notes point to the swashes as the way to get a sports feel on banners. The font has a single Regular style and 780 glyphs, noticeably more than its 554 mapped characters, covering Western and Central European Latin plus Vietnamese. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and has no bold, italic or variable axes.

Where Playball works

Team names and jerseys

The design started from an athletic look, and the swash capitals echo the lettering used across a team shirt.

Banners for games and tournaments

A slanted, joined word with a long entry swash fills a wide banner in one stroke-like shape.

Diner, bar and club logos

Full, low-contrast strokes hold up when a short name is cut as a sign or stitched as a patch.

Headings on sports and fan pages

One or two words in Playball set a sporting tone above text in a plain family.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Playball

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Playball on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Playball";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Playball-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Playball", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Playball with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playball&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Single style

Playball has only a Regular file. There is no bold, italic or variable axis.

Capitals are swashed

Lines set entirely in capitals crowd together in the specimen because the entry swashes overlap; the capitals are meant to open a lowercase word.

Romanian is not in the checked list

The letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Vietnamese are complete, but Romanian is missing from the languages verified for this font.

FAQs

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