Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Barlow Condensed pairs great with Open Sans, Roboto and Inter. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 17 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Barlow Condensed? Begin with width. Its narrow proportions give long headlines room inside tight layouts, but a partner usually needs to take over sustained reading. The most convincing combinations make that division visible.
… [Read More]Kabel pairs great with Cooper Black, Futura and Helvetica. All 9 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 26 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Kabel? Start with the fact that it was almost never meant to carry a paragraph. Rudolf Koch drew this geometric sans in 1927 for the Klingspor foundry, and across a century of real-world use it keeps landing in the same role: the headline, never the body.
… [Read More]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. Every pairing below is checked against 9 published typography sources.
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. Every pairing below is checked against 8 published typography sources.
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. Every pairing below is checked against 17 published typography sources.
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.
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