Fonts similar to Playfair Display

The 100 fonts like Playfair Display, measured

Playfair Display has more stroke contrast than most fonts like it: 77 of the 99 have less stroke contrast and 14 more. What they keep most is Playfair Display’s width: 29 are within 3% of it, Baskervville the closest of them. 98 are serifs like Playfair Display, and 2 display faces come close too, Viaoda Libre the closest of them. They part from Playfair Display most often in t (53 of the 100), 7 (27) and 3 (26).

• WidthPlayfair Display: 51% of the em

  40 narrower

  Bacasime Antique 81 · 14% narrower

  Gambarino 81 · 5% narrower

  29 within 3%

  Baskervville 81 · 2% narrower

  Baskervville SC 77 · 2% narrower

  31 wider

  Noto Serif Display 75 · 8% wider

  Literata 68 · 9% wider

• x-heightPlayfair Display: 52% of the em

  66 shorter

  Bacasime Antique 81 · x-height 19% shorter

  Baskervville 81 · x-height 15% shorter

  27 within 3%

  Gambarino 81 · x-height 2.9% taller

  Literata 68 · x-height 1.5% shorter

  7 taller

  Noto Serif Display 75 · x-height 4% taller

  Kaisei Decol 63 · x-height 5% taller

• InkPlayfair Display: 37% ink

  25 lighter

  Gilda Display 77 · 10% lighter

  Noto Serif Display 75 · 11% lighter

  21 within 6%

  Bacasime Antique 81 · 3.8% lighter

  Baskervville 81 · 3.3% lighter

  54 heavier

  Gambarino 81 · 10% heavier

  Castoro 72 · 26% heavier

• ContrastPlayfair Display: 4.85 : 1

  77 less contrast

  Baskervville 81 · less stroke contrast

  Gambarino 81 · less stroke contrast

  8 within 12%

  Bacasime Antique 81

  DM Serif Text 66

  14 more contrast

  Noto Serif Display 75 · more stroke contrast

  Boska 70 · more stroke contrast

• StylesPlayfair Display: 6 weights with italics

  8 in more weights

  Noto Serif Display 75 · 9 weights

  Literata 68 · 8 weights

• LettersWhere they differ most

  1. t53 of 100
  2. 727 of 100
  3. 326 of 100