Typography & Graphic Design Blog
EB Garamond pairs great with Inter, Oswald and Cabin. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 6 published typography sources.
What fonts go with EB Garamond? It is the free, open-source Garamond revival, and that single fact — free — shapes almost every good pairing decision you can make with it.
… [Read More]Bebas Neue pairs great with Inter, Montserrat and Roboto. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 6 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Bebas Neue? The condensed grotesque has no lowercase at all, so every pairing decision starts from the same fact: Bebas Neue can only ever be the headline, and something else has to do the reading.
… [Read More]Archivo pairs great with Lora, Roboto and Times New Roman. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 21 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Archivo? The useful answer starts with a correction: Archivo is not the condensed face most people picture. Archivo Narrow and Archivo Black are siblings, not the same font, and the plain-width Archivo is a different pairing problem — a sober workhorse grotesque that will sit under a partner as readily as it sits over one.
… [Read More]Courier New pairs great with Cantarell, Source Sans Pro and Monaco. All 15 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 Courier New? Start with what the name admits: this is not the original. Courier New is Monotype’s redraw of a 1950s IBM typewriter face, rebuilt as a TrueType font so Windows could show typed-looking text at any size.
… [Read More]Barlow pairs great with Raleway, Big Caslon and Epilogue. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 13 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Barlow? Start with where the shapes came from. No fashion studio, no Swiss foundry: Jeremy Tribby built the face out of the lettering Californians read every day — the stamped plates on cars, the panels over the freeway, the numerals on a bus or a commuter train — and took the sharpness off it until the whole thing worked at every size a public system asks for.
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