Playwrite PE Guides

handwriting · Designed by TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione

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Playwrite PE Guides is a handwriting-style font designed to reflect the cursive letterforms taught in Peruvian schools. It features flowing, connected strokes with a structured consistency that keeps it readable while still feeling personal and handcrafted. The guides variant includes baseline and writing guidelines, which give it a distinctive ruled-paper aesthetic that emphasizes its educational roots. Its character is warm and approachable without being casual or sloppy, sitting somewhere between formal penmanship and everyday handwriting.

This font works well in educational materials, particularly for children's workbooks, learning apps, or classroom resources where the handwriting style itself needs to model correct letter formation. It also fits naturally in branding for products tied to Latin American culture, artisan goods, or personal stationery where an authentic, human touch is the goal. A third practical use is in social media graphics or greeting card designs where the guided-line visual adds a nostalgic or school-notebook quality that stands out from generic script fonts.

Best suited for: Educational materials, children's workbooks, learning applications, classroom resources, personal stationery, greeting cards, and social media graphics benefiting from authentic handwritten character.

Design considerations: The single regular variant offers consistent letterforms suitable for body text in educational contexts, though limited weight options may constrain typographic hierarchy in complex layouts. The visible baseline and writing guidelines create a distinctive ruled-paper aesthetic that reinforces pedagogical purpose but may feel visually busy when used extensively at larger sizes.

Pairing guidance: Pair Playwrite PE Guides with Playfair Display or Lora for elegant contrast in headlines and formal text, leveraging their serif structure to ground the handwriting's warmth in professional contexts. Alternatively, combine it with Pacifico to amplify the handwritten, approachable tone across both display and body roles for cohesive casual designs.

Pairs well with

Playfair Display Lora Pacifico

Playwrite PE Guides at a glance

Designer

TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1

Added to Google Fonts

December 2024

Last updated

May 2025

Styles

1 (1 weight)

Classification

Handwriting

Character sets

1

Distributed via

Google Fonts

Playwrite PE Guides styles

Weight Name Upright
400 Regular Aa Bb Gg 123

Playwrite PE Guides character map

Uppercase

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Lowercase

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Numbers and punctuation

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ! ? & @ # % $ € £ ( ) [ ] { } . , : ; " ' - / * + =

Which languages does Playwrite PE Guides support?

Playwrite PE Guides includes one character set:

  • Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages

It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.

Can I use Playwrite PE Guides commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Playwrite PE Guides is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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Playwrite PE Guides FAQ

Is Playwrite PE Guides free for commercial use?

Yes. Playwrite PE Guides is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so you can use it in commercial projects, including logos, client work and products you sell.

Which weights does Playwrite PE Guides include?

Playwrite PE Guides comes in a single weight, Regular (400), with no italic style.

Does Playwrite PE Guides support Cyrillic?

No. Playwrite PE Guides supports Latin, but not Cyrillic.

Who designed Playwrite PE Guides?

Playwrite PE Guides was designed by TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione. It was added to Google Fonts in December 2024.