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About Playwrite IS Guides Font
Playwrite Ísland Guides is a single-weight font companion that harmonizes seamlessly with the main family, Playwrite Ísland . 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 latest edition of the national curriculum, published in 2014, requires that at the end of fourth grade, students must “write all the letters, write clearly and understandably.” Handwriting teaching in Iceland happens during grades 1-3 (6-9 years old), and books by the MMS adhere to a progressive system based on simplified modern italic styles. According to this system, students should first be introduced to the lowercase letters of Grunnskrift or the initial model. These are simplified and unconnected letters, slightly slanted and with exit strokes. This should be followed by uppercase letters of the same model. Finally, in the third grade (8-9 years old), students learn Tengiskrift or joined letters. To contribute, see github.com/TypeTogether/Playwrite . Playwrite Ísland 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 print
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Elegant, Flowing, Script Handwritten
- Use Case
- Invitations, Branding
- Ideal For
- wedding stationery, greeting cards, and signatures
- Pairs With
- a simple uppercase sans
Playwrite IS Guides Specifications
| Font Family | Playwrite IS Guides |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | Playwrite IS Guides Regular |
| Version | 1.003 |
| Weight | 400 (Regular) |
| Glyph Count | 1245 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | PlaywriteISGuides-Regular |
| Designer | Veronika Burian, José Scaglione |
| Format | TTF (TrueType) |
| File Size | 355.4 KB |
OpenType Features
Playwrite IS Guides ships with 2 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).
- Contextual alternates
- Stylistic sets (9)
Languages Supported
Playwrite IS Guides supports 311 languages.
How to Install Playwrite IS Guides Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Playwrite IS Guides font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Playwrite IS Guides is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Playwrite IS Guides Font is a script font that shines as a display or heading face. Pair it with a clean sans-serif or serif font for body text — the contrast creates a clear hierarchy while the two styles stay balanced and easy to read.
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Playwrite IS Guides Font
by TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026


















