The Best Font Pairings for Your Next Project

Why Font Pairings Are Necessary

Fonts play a huge role in design. You can use eye-catching graphics, gorgeous color combinations, and other stuff in your design, but in the end, you will need text elements to convey your message.

Whether the texts you use are effective or not depends on the fonts you use. Excessive use of different fonts in the same design makes it cluttered and busy. Also, using only a single font throughout a design hinders creativity.

So, it is best to use font pairings, one of which will be used less frequently (heading, subtitle, etc.), and the other will be used for all the other texts (body, article, etc.). You may use a different font for important words to draw attention.

How to Choose Font Pairs

Try to use serif with sans-serif: In most cases, a serif font in headings and sans-serif in body text work really well. If you are a beginner, go with this rule!
Weight matters: Try to use a light/normal-weighted font with a bolder one. This creates a balance in the design.
Brand?: Not all fonts are the same; different fonts provoke different emotions and yield different results. So make sure you are picking the right type of fonts according to your brand.

In this article, I have compiled some font pairings I found useful in my various projects. I hope it will help you too.

All of the fonts mentioned here are Google Fonts.

Barlow and IBM Plex Sans

Accent font: Satisfy

Heading font: Barlow

Body font: IBM Plex Sans

Lexend and Prata

Heading font: Lexend

Body font: Prata

Fraunces and Montserrat

Heading font: Fraunces

Body font: Montserrat

Syne

Syne alone is enough!

Heading and body font: Syne

Inter and Roboto

Heading font: Inter

Body font: Roboto

Teko and Source Sans Pro

Heading font: Teko

Body font: Source Sans 3*

Note: Looks like Source Sans Pro is not available on Google fonts right now, so I have linked to Source Sans 3 instead.

Update 1: Fixed typo in the title. Ooops!

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