Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Dancing Script pairs great with Arvo, Josefin Slab and Cabin. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Dancing Script? Start by treating it as a signature, not a text face: a connected informal hand whose joins and bounce are the whole point, which means every partner has to do the reading Dancing Script will not do.
… [Read More]Gilroy pairs great with Helvetica, Times New Roman and Noto Sans. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Gilroy? Start by asking what kind of sans it actually is: rounder and friendlier than a strict grotesque, but built from the same compass-and-straightedge logic as a geometric face, which is exactly the tension a partner font needs to resolve.
… [Read More]Fjalla One pairs great with Open Sans, Archivo Narrow and Libre Baskerville. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Fjalla One? The honest answer starts with a constraint rather than a taste question: Fjalla One ships in exactly one style, weight 400, with no italic and no variable axes. Whatever you pair it with is not a supporting act. It is the entire text system.
… [Read More]Segoe UI pairs great with Cambria, Georgia and Noto Sans. All 12 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Segoe UI? Start with the fact that it was never designed to be interesting. Steve Matteson drew it as Microsoft’s interface typeface, the plain, readable voice behind every button, label, and menu on Windows since Vista, and it has been quietly running the operating system’s screens since 2007.
… [Read More]Noto Serif pairs great with Noto Sans, Open Sans and Lora. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Noto Serif? The honest first answer is the face it was drawn next to — Noto Sans — but live sites and pairing lists do not stop there, and the useful question is which sans, or which display voice, should take the job Noto Serif is too even and too text-tuned to do alone.
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