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Agenda pairs great with Adobe Garamond, Sabon and Utopia. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Agenda, the sleek humanist sans from the nineties? Agenda is a working typeface. It shows up in brand guides far more often than in design blogs.
So the best answers come from real organizations that chose a partner for it.
… [Read More]Fraunces pairs great with Poppins, Overpass and Aileron. All 13 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Fraunces, the soft serif everyone seems to love right now? Start with the font itself, because Fraunces is not a quiet serif.
It is soft and full of personality, with a wonky streak. That personality decides almost every pairing below.
… [Read More]Marcellus pairs great with DM Sans, Inter and Manrope. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Marcellus, the flared serif with Roman roots? The short answer is a clean sans serif that lets its capitals speak.
… [Read More]Zilla Slab pairs great with Inter, Source Sans Pro and Lato. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Zilla Slab, the friendly slab serif from Mozilla? The short answer is a calm sans serif, and Mozilla said so first.
… [Read More]Utopia pairs great with Miller, Letter Gothic and Futura. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Utopia? Start with the job it was hired for: a sturdy transitional serif with optical sizes ranging from Caption through Display, and a range of use that Adobe says runs from corporate communications and advertising to book and newspaper publishing.
… [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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