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What fonts go with Segoe UI? Start with the fact that it was never designed to be interesting. Steve Matteson drew it as Microsoft’s interface typeface, the plain, readable voice behind every button, label, and menu on Windows since Vista, and it has been quietly running the operating system’s screens for almost two decades.

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What fonts go with Noto Serif? The honest first answer is the face it was drawn next to — Noto Sans — but live sites and pairing lists do not stop there, and the useful question is which sans, or which display voice, should take the job Noto Serif is too even and too text-tuned to do alone.

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What fonts go with Bembo? Few typefaces make the question feel this historically loaded. Bembo is Monotype’s 1929 revival of a roman that Francesco Griffo cut in 1495 for Aldus Manutius’s printing of Cardinal Pietro Bembo’s essay “De Aetna,” which means any pairing decision here is really a decision about how to sit a five-hundred-year-old letterform next to something newer.

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What fonts go with Abril Fatface? TypeTogether’s Didone display face pushes stroke contrast about as far as it can go before the hairlines disappear, which makes it one of the most dramatic headline faces on Google Fonts — and one of the least forgiving once you try to set it any smaller.

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What fonts go with Cinzel? Natanael Gama’s free typeface inspired by first-century Roman inscriptional capitals is built almost entirely for uppercase use — wide, evenly proportioned letterforms chiselled rather than penned, drawn to be carved into stone rather than read in a paragraph.

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