Playbill font family
Designed by Robert Harling in 1938
The figures are based on those of the so-called woodtypes, a style made popular through use on wanted posters in westerns. Adrian Frutiger's Westside is a similar font.
Playbill is as rough and ready as the Wild West of which it is reminiscent and its robust figures are a particularly good choice for headlines. Its style is that of the Italienne typefaces due to serifs which are thicker than the strokes.
Playbill Regular
language support of the font.
Windows menu name: Playbill Std
PostScript name: , PlaybillStd
PostScript full name: , Playbill Std