Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Lexend Deca pairs great with Zilla Slab, Gill Sans and Roboto Slab. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Lexend Deca? The useful answer starts from an unusual fact about the face: it was not drawn to look like anything. It was drawn to be measured, and the partner you choose either protects that measurement or wastes it.
… [Read More]Arvo pairs great with Lato, Open Sans and Roboto. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Arvo? The useful first question is which job you are giving it, because the evidence splits cleanly in two: design guides almost always cast Arvo as the slab headline over a quiet sans, while the archive of real published work just as often shows it underneath somebody else’s display logotype, doing the sturdy reading work.
… [Read More]Crimson Text pairs great with Futura, Open Sans and Roboto. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Crimson Text? Ask first what the face is for. It is a book serif built for paragraphs, not for posters, so the partner’s job is almost never to match it — it is to do everything Crimson Text deliberately refuses to do.
… [Read More]Pacifico pairs great with Roboto, Lato and Open Sans. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Pacifico? The honest answer starts with a constraint rather than a list: Pacifico is a brush script that cannot set a paragraph or hold a caption. A second decorative face usually competes with it, although the archive records one documented exception at the end of this list. Every partner below exists to do the work Pacifico refuses to do.
… [Read More]Verdana pairs great with Georgia, Tahoma and Trebuchet MS. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Verdana? Start with the one that was designed alongside it. Verdana was never meant to stand alone: Matthew Carter drew it in 1996 as one half of a pair, and the other half has been sitting on every computer ever since.
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