This is the README for the playfair package, version 2020-07-31. This package provides the PlayFairDisplay family of fonts, designed by Claus Eggers Sørensen 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" 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. To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system download the file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/playfair.tds.zip, where the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirror.ctan.org. Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree, likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map files by enabling the Map file PlayfairDisplay.map To use, add \usepackage{PlayfairDisplay} to the preamble of your document. This will activate PlayfairDisplay as the main (serifed) text font. Option black chooses the black weight instead of the bold weight. Options scaled= or scale= may be used to scale the PlayfairDisplay fonts. Other options are oldstyle,osf old-style figures lining,lf lining figures The defaults are lining and proportional. Commands \playfair and \playfairblack select the PlayfairDisplay and PlayfairDisplay-Black families, respectively. Commands \playfairOsF, \playfairLF and \sufigures are for localized use of non-default figures. The original fonts are available at http://www.google.com/webfonts and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, (version 1.1); the text may be found in the doc directory. The type1 fonts and support files were generated by autoinst and are renamed in compliance with the Reserved Font Name provision of the OFL licanse. The rest of the package is licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)