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EDT ac Pe eee ay Hand (Designer Approved) es best Google font combination fr your projector to make social media banners that wil look smashing. You obviously want it to match your branes identity and be aesthetically pleasing at the same tne itera, you can't send the right message if your audience finds itharder to rad. Or even worse, people wiljut ignore it because it want seem Uke you put much effort The gaod news ie that our goal is tohalp you avoid this kind of ection oe NY ee ‘But before that, let's see a few ticks related to the best font combinations that wil help you ereate amazing visuals because sometimes, by using ust fonts, you can create porfectcisplay banners, aching state-of-the-art kinetic typography, (or you can jump straight tothe part where we show youthe best combos 3 Tips to Help You Choose the Perfect Font Combinations 1. Understand font categories “The font categories you're going to work with ae sf sans serif, andwatten, ana splayiaecorative By understanding their characteristics, you willbe able tocreste beautiful contrasts between diferent font families without ending up with afont combination that makes the text hard to read 2. Pair fonts from the same overarching far ies you don't want to take any risks but don't have a monotonous font paling ether, you ‘an combine two fonts fom the same category~for example, two sets nother method would be to mic two vaviations of the same font bold version ofthe chosen fant witht italic style ora sans serif with its mone alternative, This way, you can get a sophisticated, harmonious font ping The previously mentioned font familes have thelr own styles subcategories. TNs ‘means you have even mare sate choles to make to get a beautiful, contlled contrat The seri family canbe divided into old styl, transitional, neoclassical &didone, sab, clarendon, slptic: “The sane serif family is composed of grotesque, neo-gretesqua, geometric, humanist, ssquere, The scrip family styles ae formal, casual, calligraphic blacklettr &lombardic The display/decoratve fonts can be grunge, psyched, graffi, 3. Pair fonts from different families, but make one shine brighter This simply maans you have to establish a visually Balanced hierarchy. Tryto find a font that you consider tobe the main one combined! with a subtler one. I both of them have tao much personality, you risk entering the opposite extreme of boeing monotonous, and you definitely want to avoid tha. Combine a serif witha sans sei, but dont go overboard with how itfrent they lok. Tryte discovera common ground for what they express. Forexample, don't choosea super classic handiritten font for the title and then @ hyper digitzed-looking ont forthe bodytext. 30 Font Pairings to Use in Your 1.Montserrat Black & Raleway Regular Montserrat isa font designed by Julieta Ulanavsk, Sol Matae, Juan Pablo de Peal, and Jacques Le Bally, who wanted to grasp ina fonts style the traditional Montserat ighborhood of usnos Ares. Because urbanization changes almost everything in city thay wantec to save abit it rsetion ins typetsce. Inthis geometic yet informal and pleasant to the eye sans-serif typeface, you'l ind afrent weights, according to whore you plan to ust, For headlines, Montserrat Black works lke charm Te Montserrat family has two other versions: Alternates and Subrayada, Alternates has all the letters more rounded, while Subrayada (which means underlined in Spanish) works in headlines, a8 resembles display font that catches any viewer's eye. So, you can create a beautiful Montserrat font paring without leaving this font you're looking for something ele and want a perfect Google font piting, mi this classic font withthe Raleway typeface, Raleway sa sans-serif font, initially designed by Mat Melnemey in just one thin ‘weight, and it wil help youcreate the ideal lookin @ Montserrat font paring. The Raloway family expanded into nine weights with the help of Pablo impallar and Rckigo Fuenzalida This font has csplay font ltemative,Raleway Dets, which you can use for bol sossy headlines. you wantto create a gorgeous Montserrat font paring the al gant simply 0 Raleway typeface works ideally hete, They both have strong personalities but don't ‘exclude each other. The instead help each ather shine in perfectly balanced look 2. Lobster & Open Sans Regular The Lobster font was design by Pablo Impellar and it's «delightfully bod support forthe ntemational character set] with numerous variants ofthe same letter that automaticaly offers hundracs of ligatures anc options for any platform that supports thass format ‘mat, making pleasantly readable on print, web, and moi ‘esis its different weights, Open Sans has @ Condensed alternate, which can work 3. Ubuntu Bold & Nanum Gothic The Ubuntu Font Family ie designed bythe Olt 1 Maag.company. I's an OpenType font, keeping some ofthe charact istics of Ubuntu software, Its a sans ser ypaface font family: Ubuntu C red and Ubuntu Mono. nd to ale anther piringto the suceeeefl Gaol font combinations, mic the Ubunty feot with Nanumn Gothic Nan Gothic spat ofthe Nani fonts, which have a set of high-quality Unie fonts ¢ ignec forthe Korean-langug or Latin Script ane 4, Bebas Neue & Source Sans Pro Boba Nowe was designed by Ryoichi Teunekaw with clean, condensed style forits lettrforme, making his font ust perfect fr headlines. 13 bold, uppercase-only splay font that shows confidence just by looking at Tic isthe resson why it also works tke magi in socal media veuals orn YouTube ‘thumbnails, Packt with Soutee Sans Proand gt that kind of equity wo all stive Forin our texts, I culls the strong vibe of Bebas Neve ina positive vay The Source Sans Fro sans sei font designed by Pau D. Hunt I's sateand suitable choice for longer texts. And when you ad the Bebas Neue font pating you'll 5.Arvo & Roboto Regular ‘Avois a geometric slab-ceri font that you can use for both digital and print. It was ‘signed by Anton Kooult,andit has alot of potential to make your design notice Ifyou useitin ts bold format, you can see this daring typeface making any headline perfect. Soto create one af the best Gagle font combination, place together with Robots Roboto was designed by Chistian Robertson, and t's probably one ofthe most versatite fonts out there, The lawless sans sei font is mostly geomet, with open curves that make it s popula ‘Allthe Roboto font’ eterforms are placed witha natural wit, making any text, extremely eacy to read, being suitable for any publication, The Arvo and Roto font pairing may be ane ofthe best fant pirings you could use ©. Monoton & RUDIK Tatkng about great font combinations, here's one Love, Monoton is adsplay Webfont designed by Vernon Adams similar tomatal pross Prisma font. is decorative look ean make ary tte sem retro and madly alluring In er to make it egbe, the Monoton font has tobe used in sizes above 30 polnts Tr werks exceptionally wel fr tiles and any healine that you wish to make radiant and glowy. If you've seen the TV series Euphoria, you know abot the Font they used forthe tile inside the episodes. 1's very similar tothe Manaton font, andi looks great. ‘The highly acorative Moncton fant works realy well with the 2ans serif Rub Ft. bik was designed by Philipp Hubert, Sebastian Fischer, and Mel Sadan with Founded corner, making this font easly eaclable in extensive text and versatile, ping nicely witha great vatiety of other fonts bik font has a monospace alternative, Rubik Mono One, which can be your other choice fora stranghescine. 7. IBM Plex Sans Bold & IBM Plex Sans Condensed 16M Piexisafont family designed by Mike Abbnk and Bold Monday, an independent Dutch type foundry The Plex font famivis described perfectly tes the unique en humankind and machine youn sannch ot he best font paring and need sft that has atl lke but extremely approachable and adaptable, pick any variation from the TBM Plex font You can even pick two of them and create 160 font pairings. Ich Condensed, ath topairthe Plex Sans Bold ints bold style results quite appealing 8. Courgette & Libre Baskerville CCourgete fs an elegant tallesorpttyptace with low-stroke contrast. The font wa Use this ont fr smaller-sized bady teats if theyre not too extensive This makesit ane ofthe best script fonts you could choose for your designs. The delicate look of the Courgette font can be mixed with the Libre Backerile font and create a gorgeous Google font pairing. Based onthe American Type Founder's Baskerville from 1941, Libre Baskenlle, {signed by Impallar Type, isan open-source serif typetace with wide counterfrms that make the reading on-screen ase. This is also what diferentiates Libra Baskerville font rom other serif that are not advisable for longer texts Whenever you need a simple yet styl 16 Google font paring this ea sale choice, 9. Roboto Black & Roboto Mono Light When in doubt, use a Roboto font pairing, and youre surelyin the safe zane with syle, ‘And what canbe safer than pairing two Roboto font styles? Hero's one delightful font paring: Roboto Black for a memorabl Fboto Mone Light forthe bod tox that timeless look ofa typewriter text on paper, easly eadable, hart forgot 10. Abril Fatface & Work Sans Avil Fatface isa Madera sei font designed by Veronika Buran an Jo Scaglione. ‘With abold took yet elegant and soft curves, thi isthe perfectly proportional fon for tyow think this font hae a sophisticated look, you's ight. t's inepited by the itlesin tisng posters from France and sil tnt ean be esiy 2 Wore Sane t keep the round, curvy Designed by Wei Huang, Work Sans font ie slightlyinspred by th early Grotesque fonts, optimized fr both digital and print material ‘These fonts that ga together wil bring an exquisite look to your text, making people reminigce about the early day of advertising 11. Merriweather Black & Lora Regular Merriweather ie serif font designed by Sorkin Type. Os thie font has ight cecoratd letterforms, making them readable in smaller and longer But the place where this fant shines is when sed asa healing. Choose the font black variation ana put the spatlght on your ttle You can also choose Mersiweather Sans I youre a fan of sans seri fonts, Merriveathor Black works eally well with Lora font, which ia dalicate typatace with roots in calligraphy Design by Cyreal, Lora’ eterorms ae balanced, characterized by brushed curves ‘and sot serif, suitable for body text in both dgtal and print versions. 12. Roboto Mono Bold & Spectral Light ‘nother appealing Roboto font paring is when you place it together with the Spectrat Font nits Light format. This time I chose the Roboto Mona Rol vatstion, whichis sil highly sutable fr Increased readability on various sereen davis and print lke, The monospaced addition tothe Reboto family makes any headline look ikea combination of egal with a clacccal-lookng typewriter text, This ie due to the 10" are narrowed to addition of seis on the"! ane‘, while wider glyphs ike fit the monospaced envionment Roboto Mono paid special attention to glyphs that ere used in writing software source 0 Fr example, the dig“ lowercase and capital‘ are easly eifeentiated, a6 are zero and the eter” Contrasts usually attract attention andif you want that for your tee, create a beautiful Robeto font pairing tether mith a Spactrl font init List erm. Designed by Production Type, the Spectral fonts aseiftypetace created to give a beaut, elagant ook tolang texts in any typeof environment If you want opr the Spectral font with another font from the same type family, you can choose Spectral SCfor the headlines. Hil stil create one of the most successful Google font combinations. 13. Oswald Bold & Nunito Semibold (Oswald isa sans seritfont inthe syle of Altemate Gothic font andits even older predecessor, Franklin Gothic The Oswald font was designed by Vernon Adams with continuously added improvements based on user! feedback. The designer mostly narrowed the spacing and keting to make th font more condensed With these changes the font: bald version looks exceptionally well when used in titles, headlines, and short but impactful text. This means you can create suming (Oswald font pairings for your text. This font would look good with Avenir font paling, but since that font e not avatable in the Google fonts library, the closest alternative ois to chooee the Nunito fon, {signed by the same Vernon Adams [Nani ie» sans seri font with roundel terminals that vate casual yt deientat look te a alsblay fon. I chove the sabe version ofthis font it works rally wal, withthe bold version af the Oswald font, crating an overal ively ook fo the tex The other version ofthis fonts Nunito Sans, with straighter tines forts 14, Permanent Marker & ABeeZee dynamic look or your tet here's a you need playful font pairings tre the best Google font combination fr you Permanent Marko is a font designed by Font Diner, aelitlooks exactly ike its name cay: tke you ust wrote your title with a marker, Because i playful it's advisable to use it only in headlines orn shor text, but you can easily pair it with another cheerful font, ABeeZee. ‘look forthe tents that wil make citron attentive, se this you wantto cre playful Ge font paling. 15. Archivo Black & Hind Archive Blacks the font for your headlines, It was even italy designed spectcall I grotesque sans seri typeface that coms from Ormnbus-Type Foundry, ready to {ve lite to any text and to remind us ofthe 19th-century article titles, ‘You wilfd Archivo font with its two variations: Archivo and Archivo Narrow. If vou want to pair the Archivo Black heacine with one ofthese two, you'lget an excellent font combination, you want to piri with font rom another family type the Futura font ping wl work tke a wonder: But thisis nat partof Googe fonts, <0 yo'l have to go with ts closest alternative: the Hind font. The Hind font was designed by the Indian Type Found fr use in User Interface ‘esign. The font was constructed with huraniststyedleterforms, with vertleat strokes that maka a flat and clean distinction between the ltt This font supports Devanagari and Latin scripts andi's a neat font touse for body 16, Gravitas One & Poppins Horas another example ofthe best font pairings you can use for your designs, CGravitas One was cesignad by the Sorkin Type, inspite by the Fat Face ste fonts use for acvertising posters during the Industrial Revolution in Enalana The fonts leterfoums ate designed with ng tension between the bold vertical 1 the thin eter horizontal lines and sometimes strokes, creating an attention-grabbing effec for all your hs tines or highlights Poppinsis a geometric san if ypetace des ye by the Lndan Type Foundry that works perfectly withthe Gravtas One font Poppins rounded eters creat an extremely versatile effect for your text, easly and pleasant ceadable. And the font paring with Gravitas ne is really spaton, 17. Alfa Slab One & Chivo Aa Sab Oneiea fant ign by IM Sole with b oavy lettering. You find this fant only in its blac density sit type appropriate fora title that is meant 0 bes The Alta Slab One font can make an excellent font paling with Chive, anew grotesque Sane Serif designed by the Ommibus-Type Foundry Tiss another font with character, but you use nits far orm, ithas the potential to augment your ex's boldnes rot steal the spotlight rom your Alfa Slab One hesdine. that go well together 18. Architects Daughter & Abel As the fonts name say, the daughter ofan architect inspired it. Deslgned by Kimberly CGoowsin,thishandritng syle font has the power to make you immediatly think of So, ifyou nad tle that males allthe rangers attentive, chooss this pent Intigung font ints bol format. ‘Then, pair with Abel font, and you've got yourself one of the best font combinations Twas designed by MADType an its orignal purpose was to shed aglow on al the newspaper ané poster headlines, but its adaptable nature and angled tines makeit perfect for wa body tet 19. Fjalla One & Merriweather Sans Falla One ie a caplay sans ser fnt designed by the Sorkin Type [ts condensed, bold looks perfectly adapted to any screen and print alike, which means it can workin various sizes. Duete its display characteristics, Fala One's best to be kept for the hesclines Merriweather Sans isthe font to choose for your bedy text in combination with Falla ‘One. This ones also designed bythe Sorkin Type, and i's a perfct choice for body tex, as ita be easily readable even in small size, Merrveather Sane ie a semi-condensed, sans sei font with lightly rounded letters working ae beutiful contrast fr Falla One Marciveatharte so the serif altemative if you want your text te look abit more traditional it you wore searching fr fs 6 that go wal together, here thay ara, 20. Rokkitt Black & Raleway Rott design was inated by Vernon Adams, and it bars the charactavstics ofa [can also be used in more extensive texts but in its normal frat bad s Google font combination ta remember, pack the Rokit foot with Raleway, an elegant sans ser typeface designed by Matt McInerney, and create one fora pleasantly striking font pairing ‘Another great alternatives to use the display Raleway Dots for your headlines paired with the sans serif Ralenay 21. Poiret One Bold & Didact Gothic Hero's a Google font pairing that looks taken straight out ofa great artsy book (1 Designed by Denis Masharo, Poiret Ona a font that canbe used ints bod variation for the headline, an elegant geomet grotesque, stylish, and decorate reminds us of the Art Deco period. would say t's perfect fo the vintage fons lovers out there Pair it with Didsctic Gothic, sans sei font designed by Danial Johnson and Creal to eta simple yet delicate st overall. ue ots increased eg ity this fonts used in This font also an alternative you wanted a ry Gothic font pairing 22. Bangers & Playfair Display ‘Bangers the font to use you need to bring the comic book syle to your text It was ‘esignad by Vernon Adams inspted by the superhero comics, ‘The bole depay features ofthis font can be paird with the Playfair Oiepay, This transitional font design marked the shift to printing technology curing the European Enlightenment an the change in etyle fom wrt letertoms tothe elegant seit font. You may think the contrast between these two fonts 00 big, but if you use Playfair Diepay in bigger size, they work together ike they're telling story, This latter font can be mixed with other rae typography fonts that are spirited, have a ot of charact lor theyre reminiscent of a certain fantasy word that you wish to bring into your ‘And there you have it: one ofthe best Geogle font combinations for all your playful esigns 23. Ultra & Slabo 13px. Tt As the name suggest, Ultra isan ultva-bold sab font that gathers the features rom Egyptian fonts and Clarendon fonts Because ofits bold style and daring presence, the Ultra font works for titng that wil ‘make your audience stop scrolling and pay attention. To make an overall spirited text, you can mix the Ultra heane with labo 13px font. The latter one isa size-cpacific font designed by John Hudson. Despite being sert font, itwas destined tobe used mainly ia the digtal space, as ts sot aliy look works was jst reading an online fashion magazine, andthe font used inthe article was very similar to this one So, it must be one ed font combination, The other version af Slabo fonts the Slabo 27x Se you can dare for ane powerful presence 24. Francois One & Karla Francois One ras ceslgned by Vernon Adams, and itis inepited by various sane seit gothic fonts. But ths one was taken one step further and adapted for use onthe web and leo to lok sharp int bole ipa format Jonny Pinon, the designer of te Kara font, managed to create this highly versatile font that legible avenin its extra 3d italic format. For whatever you want to use be confcent that it is a safe bet and created good font cambinaton, 25. Fugaz One & Lato Fugaz One is an talc, sans serif font with geometric features that also take this font in the decorative area. Ithas a unique way a displaying the lowercase f Winenever you need to spice up any short text or tits, this ont designed by the LatinType will bring all is ynamism into them, ‘sucha song presence need bit of summer breeze, 0 you can palit ith the font Lato—ihich means summer in Polish Iwas designed by Lukast Dzlacric asa sans sei font, It encapsulates warm, rounded letterforms wit ts sturdy prasence in any tot. ‘These to cool fons that go together tke a retro feeling nthe summer wil bring style Into any tex 26. Bevan & Pontano Sans Bovanis another font designed by Vernon Adams, and ts a reinterpretation of @ traditional slab serif cisplay designed by Heinrich stn the 1930s The intial font was ought tathe medetn age, made to lok good on screans by opening up te countertarme ant sling th Bevan can create a beautiful ent paling with Pontano Sans, whichis sans senif font ‘esigned by the same Vernon Adams, This fonts simplicity and lightness wl nplement the Bovan font ike no other, helping your text be easly readable, ‘Also, you can uset for online and oie purpos 27. Nixie One & Prompt Tt you op for aiftarent kind of tte, something thinner lighter, but stil with a great impact, you should go for Nixie One, This gorgeous display font was designed by ‘ovanny Lemond, andi reminds us all ofa traditional typewriter text but with bigger

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