What Fonts Go With Urbanist?

ZayZoon chose Urbanist in its rebrand as a variable font with a wider range of thicknesses than its old fonts. The company also says Urbanist can’t do all the heavy lifting alone.

So it introduced Vollkorn and Inter as companions. The devdays media kit is more direct: Urbanist for headings and display, Inter for body and UI. TodayMade also paired Urbanist with Inter in the emails for its Ship Angel project.

Inter is a variable font family designed for computer screens. Its neutral shapes make long interface text compact and steady under Urbanist’s rounder headings.

This is the most documented pairing on the list.

Fonts In Use documents the ARC Raiders video game with Urbanist, Barlow, Prompt, ITC Avant Garde Gothic and JetBrains Mono. In the game, Barlow Light, Regular and Bold are heavily used for body text.

Barlow is a slightly rounded, low-contrast grotesk. It draws on the visual style of the California public: car plates, highway signs, busses and trains. Barlow is narrower than Urbanist, so text packs tighter under the round headings.

Use bold Urbanist for titles and Barlow for menus, labels and paragraphs.

The Golden Software brand and style guide sets H1 to H5 in Urbanist.

Its body text is Red Hat Display Regular, between 13pt and 17pt. Red Hat Display belongs to a family created for Red Hat with type designer Jeremy Mickel.

That family launched in 2019 as part of the Open Brand Project.

Both faces are geometric, so the split has to come from weight and size. Bold Urbanist headings over regular Red Hat Display text keep the roles clear.

The Enlivex brand kit names Urbanist as its primary font.

Its secondary font is Manrope. Manrope is an open-source modern sans-serif font family, designed by Mikhail Sharanda in 2018. Its slightly narrower, more mechanical shapes sit well under Urbanist’s round geometry.

Use Urbanist for titles and Manrope for body and interface text.

Vollkorn is the serif in the same ZayZoon system. ZayZoon says serif fonts lend credibility, stability and a human touch.

Vollkorn was the first typeface design by Friedrich Althausen, first published in 2005. Its dark, sturdy serifs are the opposite of Urbanist’s even, open strokes.

That gives the page a warm reading voice beside a modern brand voice.

Use Vollkorn for longer reading and quotes, and Urbanist for headings and buttons.

In ARC Raiders, Urbanist and Prompt share the heading role, although Urbanist is used more regularly. Prompt is a loopless Thai and sans Latin typeface.

Its Latin is simple and geometric. The Prompt project is led by Cadson Demak, a type foundry in Thailand. Because the two are close in spirit, give one of them the main titles and the other the smaller headings.

Keep a clear weight step between them so the page still has one leader.

ARC Raiders also uses JetBrains Mono as extra decorative flavor, mainly in the HUD. JetBrains Mono keeps its characters standard in width, but the height of the lowercase is maximized.

That tall lowercase sits well next to Urbanist’s open, round letters.

Use the mono for data, codes, labels and small status text. Urbanist keeps the headings, so the monospace reads as a technical accent.

ARC Raiders uses ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold for its logo.

So in this pairing, Avant Garde takes the title and Urbanist takes the rest.

Adobe Fonts credits Herb Lubalin among the designers of ITC Avant Garde Gothic, from Monotype. Urbanist is often compared to it, so this is a family-resemblance pairing. The contrast must come from weight: a heavy Avant Garde title over lighter Urbanist text.

The Riteflow Framer template lists DM Sans as its primary font and Urbanist as its secondary font. Colophon Foundry designed DM Sans.

DM Sans is a low-contrast geometric sans serif design, intended for use at smaller text sizes. That makes it a natural text partner for Urbanist’s display lines. Use DM Sans for running text and Urbanist for headlines, with a clear size step between them.

MaxiBestOf records the Jackie Visuals website with EB Garamond and Urbanist.

EB Garamond is a free Garamond released by Georg Duffner in 2011. Its Renaissance proportions and fine detail give text a bookish rhythm.

Against it, Urbanist reads as the clean, modern interface layer. Use Urbanist for navigation and short headings, and EB Garamond for longer copy or elegant titles.

The Lara Elsie Design blog pairs Literata Regular with Urbanist. The post says the clean and simple sans serif allows Literata to take centre stage as a headline. So in this pairing, Literata takes the heading.

Literata was designed by TypeTogether. It was originally created as the brand typeface for Google Play Books. Its bookish serifs give the title weight, and Urbanist keeps the text clean.

Stimulus Advertising pairs Sacramento with Urbanist. It lets Sacramento shine as a heading and uses Urbanist as body text. Sacramento is a monoline, semi-connected script inspired by hand-lettering brochure work of the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Astigmatic is the designer listed by Google Fonts. A flowing script title over a clean geometric text face is a classic contrast.

Keep Sacramento large and short, and let Urbanist do all the reading work.

MaxiBestOf records the Surella website with Bowlby One SC and Urbanist. Bowlby One SC is a utilitarian, All Caps and Small Caps display font.

Vernon Adams is its designer. Google Fonts calls it perfect for big bold headlines that need a slightly roughened look.

So Bowlby One SC takes the heading here. Its heavy caps shout, and Urbanist answers with calm, light text below.