Font pairing
Pick a heading font, pick a body font that goes with it, and see the pair on a poster, an app screen and a logo. Every preview uses a free Google Font, so you can use what you see.
- 13 well-known fontsPreviewed with free Google Fonts
- See the pairOn a poster, an app screen and a logo
- Code to pasteHTML link, CSS and Tailwind v4
- Where it came fromHistory and who uses it, sourced
Heading font
Courier with Source Serif 4
Preview uses Courier Prime, the closest free match.
Some roads only go one way.
The Long Way Home
Two brothers, one borrowed car and a thousand miles of coast between them and the funeral. In cinemas this spring.
Body font
Pairings for Courier Prime, and why they work.
Use it
Both fonts are free under the licences on Google Fonts. Add the link to your page head, then set the families in CSS or in a Tailwind v4 theme.
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Courier+Prime:wght@400;700&family=Source+Serif+4:wght@400;700&display=swap">h1, h2, h3 {
font-family: 'Courier Prime', monospace;
font-weight: 700;
}
body {
font-family: 'Source Serif 4', serif;
}@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Courier+Prime:wght@400;700&family=Source+Serif+4:wght@400;700&display=swap");
@import "tailwindcss";
@theme {
--font-heading: 'Courier Prime', monospace;
--font-body: 'Source Serif 4', serif;
}
/* Then use the font-heading and font-body classes. */About Courier
An IBM typewriter face that screenplays never gave up.
History
- Howard "Bud" Kettler designed Courier for IBM in the mid-1950s. Sources disagree on 1955 or 1956.[1]
- Courier Prime, by Alan Dague-Greene and funded by John August, was released in January 2013 under the SIL Open Font License.[1]
Who uses it
- Screenplays, where 12 point Courier or a close variant is the industry standard[1]
- The US State Department, whose standard was 12 point Courier New until January 2004[1]
Sources
Courier on its own pageAll fonts
Trajan
Roman inscription capitals, and the movie poster font.
Helvetica
The Swiss sans that ended up on subway signs and airline logos.
Arial
Drawn to the same widths as Helvetica, shipped with Windows.
Futura
The 1927 geometric sans of circles and straight lines.
Gotham
Wide geometric capitals taken from New York building signs.
Impact
A 1965 Sheffield display face that became the meme font.
Garamond
Sixteenth century Paris type, revived many times since.
Times New Roman
Made for a London newspaper in 1932, then shipped with Windows.
Didot
High contrast French type, and the look of fashion magazines.
Baskerville
A Birmingham printer’s sharper, lighter serif from the 1750s.
Comic Sans
Drawn in 1994 for the speech bubbles in Microsoft Bob.
Courier
An IBM typewriter face that screenplays never gave up.
Roboto
Google's Android system font since 2011.