Playwrite: A Typeface Engine for Primary School Cursive Fonts Inspired by Argentine Curriculum

Categories Handwritten , Script
Tags Cursive   Handwriting   Variable  
Designer : TypeTogether
License: Free for commercial use OFL
Files: 7 Size: 551 KB
Views: 16 Downloads: 2
WebSite: https://github.com/TypeTogether
Playwrite is a typeface engine designed to create primary school cursive fonts, particularly inspired by the Argentine curriculum. Although Argentina's primary education emphasizes writing comprehension and composition over handwriting, students begin learning joined upright cursive as early as first or second grade. They progress from print uppercase to lowercase letters in the first grade, culminating in cursive writing. This cursive style, prevalent in many South American countries, traces its roots back to French Normal schools. Characterized by its roundness and continuity, this style features distinct elements like elongated ascenders and descender loops, partially connected uppercase letters, curved entry strokes at x-height, a looped 'o', and a crossbar in 'q' requiring a pen lift.

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Playwrite AR
Playwrite Argentina
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Primary school curricula In Argentina focuses on writing mostly from a comprehension and composition standpoint, rather than from the perspective of handwriting. Even so, primary school students learn how to write with joined upright cursive letters from first or second grade. In the initial level, students learn print uppercase letters, followed by print lowercase letters in the first grade, and finally, cursive writing.

Playwrite Argentina characteristics
As it happens in many South American countries, handwriting for primary education is rooted in the tradition of French Normal schools. It is a round, continuous cursive style, and some of its most recognizable features are the long ascenders and descender loops, semi-connected uppercase letters, curved entry strokes on x-height, the knot in the letter 'o', and a crossbar in 'q' that requires a pen lift.

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# File name Size Download
1 OFL.txt 4 KB Download
2 PlaywriteAR[wght].ttf 327 KB Download
3 PlaywriteAR-ExtraLight.ttf 223 KB Download
4 PlaywriteAR-Light.ttf 223 KB Download
5 PlaywriteAR-Regular.ttf 222 KB Download
6 PlaywriteAR-Thin.ttf 222 KB Download
7 text.txt 947 bytes Download