Playfair is a transitional design. In the European Enlightenment in the late 18th century, broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens as the popular writing tool of the day. Together with developments in printing technology, ink, and paper making, it became to print letterforms of high contrast and delicate hairlines that were increasingly detached from the written letterforms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This design lends itself to this period, and while it is not a revival of any particular design, it takes influence from the designs of John Baskerville and from \u2018Scotch Roman\u2019 designs<\/p>
<\/p>The Playfair project is led by Claus Eggers S\u00f8rensen, a type designer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. <\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Catamaran is a Unicode-compliant Latin and Tamil text type family designed for the digital age. The Tamil is monolinear and was designed alongside the sans serif Latin and Devanagari family\u00a0Palanquin<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It currently comprises of 9 text weights, making it a versatile family that strikes a balance between typographic conventions and that bit of sparkle. (A catamaran is a multihulled vessel consisting of two parallel hulls of equal size. The catamaran concept is a relative newcomer for Western boat designers, been used since time immemorial among the Dravidian people, in South India.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n