Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Urbanist pairs great with Inter, Barlow and Red Hat Display. All 13 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Urbanist, the low-contrast geometric sans by Corey Hu? The best partners give Urbanist’s round, even letters a job to share. Some take the headline, some take the reading, and a few add a technical edge.
… [Read More]Figtree pairs great with Georgia, Open Sans and Noto Serif. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Figtree, the friendly geometric sans made for web and mobile apps? The short answer is: almost anything with a clear job of its own. Figtree is so calm that most partners only need to bring one thing it does not have.
… [Read More]Outfit pairs great with Spectral, Fraunces and Poppins. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Outfit, the friendly geometric sans from outfit.io? It is a geometric sans with a lot of personality in its small details. So the right partner depends on the job you give Outfit, and on what it cannot do by itself.
… [Read More]Jost pairs great with Cormorant Garamond, Space Grotesk and Literata. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Jost, the free geometric sans with Futura in its blood? The short answer: almost anything with more personality than Jost has. Jost is a geometric workhorse, and it is happiest when a partner brings the drama.
… [Read More]Andale Mono pairs great with DIN, Inter and Univers. All 11 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Andale Mono? Start with what it is: a monospaced sans, where every letter takes the same width. That one fact decides almost every pairing.
… [Read More]Douglas Bonneville has been a graphic designer since 1992 and has written about type here since 2009. BonFX is a blog about typography and design, and the books that came out of it.
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