Playwrite Canada Guides is a single-weight font companion that harmonizes seamlessly with the main family, Playwrite Canada . It includes guidelines on the baseline, x-height, ascenders, and descenders. These guides provide a visual aid for primary school children that helps young learners grasp the proportions of letterforms and assists them in drawing letters with confidence and accuracy. The traditional method of handwriting instruction in Canada is called MacLean’s Method of Writing , and was developed by educator Henry Boyver MacLean in the mid-20th century. Building upon letter shapes devised by Austin Norman Palmer in the United States , MacLean introduced several changes to suit the needs of school instruction, such as modifications to teaching methods and the addition of motor preparation exercises. Even though MacLean’s books have not been used in Canada for several years, his letter shapes survive in schoolbooks published by regional governments and private publishing houses. They are widely used in the majority of Canadian primary schools. To contribute, see github.com/TypeTogether/Playwrite . Playwrite Canada Guides characteristics Guidelines are present in all characters except for those used for letter/word spacing. To create a versatile tool for teachers when designing practice sheets that feature guidelines without corresponding letters, the underscore is used as a key character. In Playwrite Guides fonts the underscore prints only the guidelines, and matches