Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Red Hat Display pairs great with Red Hat Text, Inter and Avenir. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Red Hat Display? The honest first answer is that it already came with one, which makes this a different pairing problem from most: the face was drawn as half of a matched pair, and every choice below is either the other half or a deliberate decision to leave the system.
… [Read More]Trajan pairs great with Lato, Gotham + Requiem and Avenir. All 5 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Trajan? The honest answer is: almost nothing, and that is by design. Trajan is one of the small handful of typefaces built to stand completely alone — on a movie poster, a wine label, a courthouse plaque — and any search for a true companion face runs into that fact almost immediately.
… [Read More]Bitter pairs great with Montserrat, Open Sans and Work Sans. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Bitter? Start by asking what kind of slab it actually is: not a poster face with shouting rectangular serifs, but a screen-tuned text slab whose square terminals were drawn to hold color in a paragraph — which is exactly the job a partner font has to leave alone or take over.
… [Read More]Minion pairs great with Montserrat, Gill Sans and Avenir. All 14 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Minion? It is one of the most popular serif typefaces used in books, and it has been doing that job since 1990.
… [Read More]Space Grotesk pairs great with Space Mono, Inter and Jost. All 15 pairings are shown below in real rendered specimens, with the reason each one works.
What fonts go with Space Grotesk? The answer depends on whether you treat it as a neutral grotesque or as a display face, and it is emphatically the second. Space Grotesk carries too many peculiar details to stay quiet underneath anything, so a partner’s job is to hold everything Space Grotesk cannot.
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