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Playpen Sans

The library lists Playpen Sans together with four more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements. It is one of only five families in the library that cover Emoji. Among the 297 handwriting faces, it has the second-largest number of script subsets.

Outlines drawn from the PlaypenSans file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the handwriting faces.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Playpen Sans	Median of 297 handwriting faces
Ascender (top of d)	832	720
Cap height (top of H)	782	733
x-height (top of x)	546	445
Descender (foot of p)	−284	−326
x-height ÷ cap height	0.70	0.60
Average lowercase width	534	418
Ink coverage, a–z	43.7%	44.3%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Playpen Sans	Added
Playpen Sans Arabic	adds Arabic	2025
Playpen Sans Deva	adds Devanagari	2025
Playpen Sans Hebrew	adds Hebrew	2025
Playpen Sans Thai	adds Thai	2025

Where it sitsEvery handwriting family is a dot

X-height across the 287 handwriting faces with ascenders

151669

Just below: Coming Soon, Give You Glory; just above: Lumanosimo, Pangolin; level with: Playpen Sans Arabic, Playpen Sans Deva, Playpen Sans Hebrew

Average lowercase width across the 297 handwriting faces

211720

Just below: Briem Hand, Walter Turncoat; just above: Playwrite NZ Basic, Gveret Levin; level with: Playpen Sans Arabic, Playpen Sans Deva, Playpen Sans Hebrew

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 800, with no italic; eight of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	100 to 800	545 families

Scripts8 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 3,082 glyphs and 1,051 mapped Unicode characters; 16 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, ordinals, standard ligatures, contextual alternates, case-sensitive forms and three stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Kavivanarshorter x-height, narrower Courgetteshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the handwriting class

Adaminashorter x-height, wider Libre Caslon Textshorter x-height, wider B612taller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Playpen Sans

Same designer

TypeTogether is credited on 54 other families in the library, from Abril Fatface (2011) to Playwrite NZ Basic (2026); the closest of them in x-height and width is Playwrite NZ Basic. Laura Meseguer is also credited on Questrial. Veronika Burian is credited on 49 other families in the library, from Playwrite CO (2023) to Playwrite NZ Basic (2026); the closest of them in x-height and width is Playwrite NZ Basic. José Scaglione is credited on 49 other families in the library, from Playwrite CO (2023) to Playwrite NZ Basic (2026); the closest of them in x-height and width is Playwrite NZ Basic. Kostas Bartsokas is also credited on Commissioner and Oi.