Font pairing generator
Generate beautiful heading + body combinations from Google Fonts. Lock the font you like, shuffle the other, and copy ready-to-use CSS.
💡 High-contrast Playfair headlines over a calm humanist sans: the classic editorial serif-and-sans formula.
Get the CSS
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair+Display:wght@700&family=Source+Sans+3:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
<style>
h1, h2, h3 { font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; }
body { font-family: "Source Sans 3", sans-serif; }
</style>AI font pairing
PRODescribe your brand, audience or project and get four tailored pairings with the reasoning behind each.
100 curated pairings
Playfair Display
Source Sans 3 — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
High-contrast Playfair headlines over a calm humanist sans: the classic editorial serif-and-sans formula.
Playfair Display
Lato — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Lato's semi-rounded letters soften Playfair's sharp contrast for a polished but approachable page.
Montserrat
Merriweather — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
A wide geometric headline above a sturdy serif built for screens: strong hierarchy, comfortable long reads.
Oswald
Open Sans — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Condensed Oswald fits punchy headlines into tight spaces while neutral Open Sans keeps body text effortless.
Roboto Slab
Roboto — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
One family, two voices: shared proportions keep it coherent while slab serifs give headings extra weight.
Abril Fatface
Lato — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
A fat-face didone that demands attention; Lato steps back and keeps paragraphs light.
DM Serif Display
DM Sans — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Designed as companions: a high-contrast display serif and a low-contrast geometric sans from the DM family.
Fraunces
Inter — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Fraunces adds soft, old-style warmth to headlines; Inter's neutral shapes keep interfaces crisp.
Cormorant Garamond
Proza Libre — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Delicate, high-contrast Garamond headlines with a warm sans tuned to render crisply on screens.
Space Mono
Space Grotesk — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Same DNA: the monospaced original for headlines, its proportional grotesque spin-off for readable text.
JetBrains Mono
Inter — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Developer-tool aesthetic: a crisp coding font for titles, Inter for everything that needs to be read quickly.
IBM Plex Serif
IBM Plex Sans — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
IBM's superfamily shares metrics and details, so serif headlines and sans text feel engineered together.
How to use it
- 1Press Generate (or the space bar) to get a new pairing.
- 2Lock the heading or body font you like and keep shuffling the other.
- 3Type your own text to preview, then copy the CSS or the Google Fonts link.
Good pairings balance contrast and harmony: a characterful heading with a calm, readable body font, similar proportions and a shared mood. Our generator scores every combination with rules designers use — classification, width, contrast and x-height — so every shuffle is a sensible starting point.
All fonts are from Google Fonts and released under the SIL Open Font License, so they're free for personal and commercial projects.
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