La Fontaine
seriftransitional serif
A serif typeface from Playtype with a literary character, suited to editorial and long-form text work.
About
La Fontaine carries a classical, literary sensibility consistent with its namesake, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine. The page copy is sparse, offering little technical detail, but the tone suggests a refined text serif intended for editorial contexts. Playtype's broader catalogue tends toward considered, Scandinavian design, which situates this as a serious text face rather than a display novelty.
Classification
The name and the quote suggesting literary, classical sensibility point toward a refined serif tradition; without more detail, a transitional serif classification is the most defensible given the Playtype catalogue context.
Weights
Regular
Languages
Latin
Tags
serifliteraryclassicaleditorialtext