Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Oxygen pairs great with Maven Pro, Oswald and Quicksand. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Oxygen? Start with where it came from. Oxygen was not drawn for a magazine or a poster. It was drawn for a desktop, and that origin explains both what it does well and what a partner has to add.
… [Read More]Orbitron pairs great with Rajdhani, Inter and Roboto Slab. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Orbitron? Short answer: something that can read. Orbitron is the spaceship-hull font, the loading-screen font, the one every sci-fi pitch deck reaches for first. It is brilliant at that job and pretty tiring at every other one, so the partner you pick ends up doing most of the actual communicating.
… [Read More]Maven Pro pairs great with Oxygen, Patua One and Lato. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Maven Pro? It is one of those free fonts you have probably seen many times without knowing its name. Friendly, a little techy, softly squared. It can set a headline and it can set a paragraph, which makes the pairing question more open than usual. You get to decide which job Maven Pro does, and the partner takes the other one.
… [Read More]Lobster pairs great with Oswald, Yanone Kaffeesatz and Cabin. All 11 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Lobster? Treat it as a nameplate, not a paragraph: a heavy connected script whose ligatures and bounce only hold at display size, so every partner has to supply the reading Lobster will not do.
… [Read More]Lexend pairs great with Kalam, Zilla Slab and Lora. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Lexend? Lexend is unusual because it was built to solve a reading problem, not to express a style. That changes the pairing question. You are not looking for a partner that adds personality to a plain sans. You are looking for one that keeps the page as easy to read as Lexend itself.
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