Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Antique Olive pairs great with Helvetica, Univers and Gill Sans. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Antique Olive? Almost none of the obvious ones, because this is a sans that behaves like a display face at every size — enormous x-height, stunted descenders, and stroke weight piled onto the tops and bottoms of the curves instead of the sides.
… [Read More]Alfa Slab One pairs great with Open Sans, Roboto and Gentium Book Basic. All 10 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Alfa Slab One? Start with what the font refuses to do. Alfa Slab One is a single, very black weight with no italic and no lighter sibling, so it cannot carry a paragraph and it cannot build a hierarchy by itself. Whatever you put next to it has to do all of the quiet work.
… [Read More]Abel pairs great with Roboto, Oswald and Titillium Web. All 12 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Abel? The useful answer starts with an admission about the font itself: Abel ships in exactly one weight, with no italic and no bold, which means it cannot build a hierarchy on its own. Whatever you pair with it is not a decorative companion. It is the half of the system that does the work Abel structurally cannot do.
… [Read More]Exo pairs great with Roboto, Open Sans and Manrope. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Exo? The useful question underneath it is what Exo is actually doing: it is a geometric sans whose curves have been flattened along their sides and whose stroke ends are cut at angles, which reads as engineered rather than drawn, and a partner font either agrees with that reading or deliberately softens it.
… [Read More]Satisfy pairs great with Lora, Roboto and Open Sans. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Satisfy? Start from what it is not: Satisfy is not a text face, has no second weight, and cannot carry more than a line or two before the joins and the bounce of a brush hand wear the reader out. Every good partner for it is therefore a font that does the reading job Satisfy declines to do.
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