Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Cooper Black pairs great with Work Sans, Libre Franklin and Helvetica. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Cooper Black? Oswald Cooper’s 1922 ultra-bold slab exists to shout — the lowercase is there, but below display size the bulging curves clot, so every partner’s job is to do the reading Cooper Black cannot.
… [Read More]Brush Script pairs great with Futura, Helvetica and Impact. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Brush Script? The face is all gesture — slanted, wet-looking, impatient — so its partners have to be the ones that hold still.
… [Read More]Chivo pairs great with Playfair Display, Lora and PT Serif. All 13 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Chivo? Chivo is a neo-grotesque, which means it is deliberately plain: even strokes, upright stress, no calligraphic trace. A partner therefore has to bring the one thing Chivo refuses to, whether that is stroke contrast, warmth, a serif, or a monospaced grid.
… [Read More]Gotham pairs great with Source Serif 4, PT Serif and Times New Roman. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Gotham? Hoefler & Co’s geometric sans was drawn from New York street lettering and became one of the most recognisable retail typefaces of the past twenty-five years — recognisable enough that the harder question is usually what body text can sit underneath it without feeling like an afterthought.
… [Read More]American Typewriter pairs great with ITC Benguiat, Helvetica and Futura. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with American Typewriter? The face looks like a machine product but behaves like a friendly humanist, and its partners have to answer the question the ball terminals keep asking: is this nostalgia, or is this warmth?
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