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+This is the README for the playfair package, version 2014-03-14.
+
+This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support
+for 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.
+
+LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or who wish
+to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option.
+
+Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> 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.
+
+Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1 and TS1.
+
+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 versions
+were created using fontforge. The support files were created using
+autoinst and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project
+Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt
+at cs.queensu.ca)