Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Calibri pairs great with Cambria, Georgia and Candara. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 17 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Calibri? Microsoft’s Office default for seventeen years is a face most people never chose and never quite noticed — a quiet humanist sans built for the screen, gently rounded at every stem corner, that only stepped aside for Aptos in 2024.
… [Read More]Ubuntu pairs great with Open Sans, Lora and Roboto. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 40 published typography sources.
What fonts go with Ubuntu? The question is harder than it looks, because Ubuntu is not the neutral system sans people assume it is. It was engineered for screen clarity, but it carries a set of distinctive construction quirks that a partner font either has to answer or has to get out of the way of.
… [Read More]Avenir pairs great with Garamond, Georgia and Baskerville. 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 Avenir? Adrian Frutiger’s geometric sans is warm where Futura is severe and disciplined where humanist sans-serifs get chatty — a balance that makes it unusually easy to live with and unusually easy to pair badly.
… [Read More]Garamond pairs great with Helvetica, Gill Sans and Montserrat. 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 Garamond? The name belongs to a sixteenth-century French punchcutter, but on a font menu today it belongs to a dozen different revivals, some drawn a century apart from each other and none of them identical.
… [Read More]DM Sans pairs great with DM Mono, Adobe Garamond and DM Serif Text. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works. Every pairing below is checked against 14 published typography sources.
What fonts go with DM Sans? Treat it as a small-size geometric sans first. Colophon drew it for text, not for a poster, so the partner usually supplies either a serif reading texture or a more emphatic display line while DM Sans holds the interface, the caption, and the paragraph that has to stay even on a phone.
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