Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Verdana pairs great with Georgia, Tahoma and Trebuchet MS. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 10 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Verdana? Start with the one that was designed alongside it. Verdana was never meant to stand alone: Matthew Carter drew it in 1996 as one half of a pair, and the other half has been sitting on every computer ever since.
… [Read More]Trajan pairs great with Lato, Gotham + Requiem and Avenir. All 5 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 6 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Trajan? The honest answer is: almost nothing, and that is by design. Trajan is one of the small handful of typefaces built to stand completely alone — on a movie poster, a wine label, a courthouse plaque — and any search for a true companion face runs into that fact almost immediately.
… [Read More]Minion pairs great with Montserrat, Gill Sans and Avenir. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 13 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Minion? It is the old-style serif that quietly typesets more books, theses, and institutional documents than almost any other digital typeface, and it has been doing that job since 1990.
… [Read More]Myriad pairs great with Sabon, Adobe Garamond and Helvetica Neue. All 6 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 18 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Myriad? Start with the fact that almost nobody is asking anymore. Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly’s 1992 humanist sans spent a decade as the default voice of Adobe and Apple, and it still shows up in packaging, campus signage, and legacy brand systems everywhere — but the pairing conversation among type blogs and foundries moved on to newer faces years ago, which makes finding good partners for it a different kind of research problem.
… [Read More]Sabon pairs great with Poppins, Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica Neue. All 7 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 10 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Sabon? The honest answer starts with an admission: this is not a font that design blogs argue over. Sabon is a licensed book and print workhorse, and the pairing sites that generate instant answers for typefaces like Helvetica or Futura have almost nothing written down about it. So the real evidence here comes from a different, quieter place — a handful of production sites, one Wikipedia-cited university design guideline, and one live institutional brand guide that all actually had to choose something to sit beside Sabon and commit that choice to paper. That is a shorter list than most font-pairing guides work from, but every entry on it is real, not guessed.
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