# Playball font

> A slanted script with sweeping swash capitals, drawn by Robert Leuschke with a sports-lettering look in mind.

Playball is a script typeface by Robert Leuschke whose slanted, joined letters and swash capitals were inspired by athletic lettering. Playball comes in one Regular style with 780 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and it is not a variable font. Playball is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits team names, banners and logos.

## Facts

- Classification: [Script](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/script)
- Designed by: Robert Leuschke
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 780
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-02
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Playball
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/playball
- Tagged for: Headlines, Logos, Casual, Social media

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2011 The Playball Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/play-ball)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Playball free for commercial use?

Yes. Playball is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Playball?

Playball was designed by Robert Leuschke; the font file gives his name as Robert E. Leuschke. The copyright notice names The Playball Project Authors.

### How many weights does Playball have?

Playball has one weight, Regular 400, with no italic. It is not a variable font.

### What is Playball used for?

Playball was inspired by athletic lettering, so it is used for team names, sports banners, logos and short headings. It is not suited to paragraphs.

### Which languages does Playball support?

Playball includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Vietnamese.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/playball (trendhub)