Custom Typeface for Oxford University Press

One source design, three regional subfamilies for early handwriting education

Oxford University Press commissioned TypeTogether to create a custom adaptation of Playwrite, TypeTogether's open-source handwriting typeface, for global phonics and early-years education programmes. The brief required letterforms meeting educational standards, integrated writing lines, dotted tracing variants, and directional arrow guides for teachers. Through iterative testing, the project expanded from a single source design into three subfamilies—two UK pre-cursive styles and a print-like US style—each spanning five weights plus line-integrated and dotted styles. The typeface is currently in active classroom use worldwide, with a large-scale writing curriculum rollout planned for 2027.

Set in Playwrite