Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Avenir pairs great with Garamond, Georgia and Baskerville. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Avenir? Adrian Frutiger’s geometric sans is warm where Futura is severe and disciplined where humanist sans-serifs get chatty — a balance that makes it unusually easy to live with and unusually easy to pair badly.
… [Read More]Garamond pairs great with Helvetica, Gill Sans and Montserrat. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Garamond? The name belongs to a sixteenth-century French punchcutter, but on a font menu today it belongs to a dozen different revivals, some drawn a century apart from each other and none of them identical.
… [Read More]DM Sans pairs great with DM Mono, Adobe Garamond and DM Serif Text. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with DM Sans? Treat it as a small-size geometric sans first. Colophon drew it for text, not for a poster, so the partner usually supplies either a serif reading texture or a more emphatic display line while DM Sans holds the interface, the caption, and the paragraph that has to stay even on a phone.
… [Read More]Work Sans pairs great with Playfair Display, Merriweather and Bitter. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Work Sans? This functional grotesque brings workhorse reliability that demands companions capable of leveraging its practical character while providing meaningful visual contrast.
… [Read More]Times New Roman pairs great with Helvetica, Georgia and Poppins. All 11 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Times New Roman? It is one of the most popular typefaces of all time and, for exactly that reason, the hardest one to make look intentional: a transitional serif everyone has seen a thousand times, mostly by default rather than by choice.
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