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Powered by AI, Monotype’s new Font Pairing engine is a formidable creative tool that makes the font selection process quicker and easier than ever while expanding your design options with countless inspiring font pairs.

Using data on how creatives using Monotype Fonts employed this tool, we selected the four font pairs that you loved the most, adding them to your projects and saving them to your favorites at the highest rates.

Clear + Sincere in Helvetica Now Display Bold with body text in Century Old Style Regular.

Serious + Approachable in Dante Regular and Mundo Sans Regular.

Let’s examine these four pairings in depth to understand what makes them so appealing to creatives.

Helvetica for headlines and Century for body text, emphasizing clarity and readability.

Helvetica & Century.

使用するフォントを決める際、必ずしも最も派手でユニークなフォントペアを選ぶ必要はありません。華やかで斬新なビジュアルが求められる場面ももちろんありますが、プロジェクトの主な目的が「伝わること」である場合にはどうでしょうか。

たとえば、患者と外科医をつなぐ病院の情報資料や、住民が問題を報告できる部署を案内する市役所の資料を作成する場合を考えてみてください。このようなケースでは、明確なレイアウトと、HelveticaとCenturyのような、明瞭で読みやすいフォントの組み合わせを選ぶことが重要です。

Monotypeのクリエイティブ責任者Graham Sturetは、Helvetica を「明瞭さとシンプルさを求める無数のブランドにとって頼りになる書体であり、無駄のないコミュニケーションアプローチを体現している」と評しています。一方、Centuryはオールドスタイルのセリフ体で、「柔らかく丸みを帯びたセリフと適度なストロークのコントラストが、親しみやすさと洗練された印象を与える」のが特徴です。

判別性の高いフォントを選ぶだけでなく、それぞれのフォントが明確かつ一貫した目的を持たせることで、視覚的な階層を明瞭に保ちましょう。見出しにはHelveticaのようなサンセリフ体を、本文にはCenturyのようなセリフ体を使うことを検討してみてください。

Grahamはこの組み合わせについて次のように語っています。「Helveticaの均一なストロークとミニマルなアプローチは、Century Old Styleが持つより人間的な特徴に対し、鮮明でモダンな対比を生み出します。セリフ体の繊細なカーブとストローク幅のわずかな変化が深みと質感を加え、Helveticaのストレートなデザインにとって理想的なパートナーとなっています」。これ以上完璧な組み合わせを想像するのは難しいでしょう。

Kairos Sans & Chronicle Display.

Despite their completely opposite personalities, this pairing comes together beautifully, says Graham Sturt: “The pairing of Kairos Sans and Chronicle Display is all about balancing strength with grace. Kairos Sans’s geometric precision is offset by the flowing, intricate forms of Chronicle Display, resulting in a harmonious contrast that feels both bold and sophisticated.”

In fact, it might not be entirely accurate to say that Kairos Sans and Chronicle Display make a great pairing despite their contrasts. Instead, their contrasts contribute to their successful partnership, with every aspect of each font balanced by a distinctive counterpoint in the other. Graham put it perfectly when he noted, “Where Kairos Sans provides clarity and structure, Chronicle Display adds a layer of depth and ornamentation.” This contrast creates near-endless opportunities for experimentation that lead to new and unexpected compositions.

It doesn’t hurt that even on their own, both Kairos Sans and Chronicle Display are endlessly expressive, offering an enormous range of weights, widths, postures, and optical sizes. Together, though, their creative possibilities are exponentially greater.

Elegant font pairing of Dante and Mundo Sans showcasing a balance of classic serif and modern sans-serif styles for refined, versatile design.

Dante & Mundo Sans.

Seeking stylistic harmony in your typeface pairing? Look no further than Dante and Mundo Sans.

As Monotype’s Creative Type Director Terrance Weinzierl comments, “Both are tasteful and smart without being lavish. The stroke contrast and modulation, the thicks and thins, look sophisticated, honest, and rich.” Although one is a sans and one is a serif, they’re both humanist typefaces abstracted from calligraphy, and they’re both easy on the eyes.

But what about their differences? Let’s use an analogy: the classic Dante evokes

materials like paper and stone, while the more modern Mundo brings glass and metal to mind.

Examples of applications that would work well for this font pairing include print publications, using Mundo Sans for headlines and Dante for text, with the opposite typographic palette (i.e., Dante large and Mundo small) for the digital version. For branding, we envision this pairing working perfectly for restaurants and hospitality, luxury, fashion, home goods, and health/beauty packaging.

P.S. Did you know that Mundo Sans already has a built-in serif companion, one that’s even more harmonious than Dante? Consider including Mundo Serif in your typographic palette as well—with these three fonts, you’ll have even more stylistic range, including the option to create more complex hierarchies.

The Walbaum and Turnkey font pairing showcases the elegance of opposites in perfect visual balance.

Walbaum & Turnkey.

This dynamic pair embodies the expression “opposites attract.” Walbaum is a warmly rendered Neoclassical serif, while Turnkey is a Neo-grotesque that leans into its geometric features. Terrance Weinzierl summed it up best when he commented, “If Walbaum is the dashing sports car, Turnkey is the self-made, denim-wearing driver.”

Although these two fonts are near-opposites, their shared details—especially Turnkey’s quirky elements—create the bond in this pairing. Their stroke contrast differs (Walbaum’s is high, Turnkey’s is low), but the two fonts’ proportions are compatible. In addition, Turnkey’s ink traps (empty spaces included at certain stroke intersections to prevent ink from bleeding, especially for small text) are a formal connection to Walbaum’s serifs—they create similarly rectangular shapes in negative and positive space, respectively.

Turnkey also offers soft styles with rounded edges that complement Walbaum’s subtle rounding to create notes of harmony in a chorus of contrast. And Turnkey’s curvy and exuberant characters (like its “k” and “R”) help it keep up with Walbaum’s panache.

Depending on which of the two fonts you feature as the dominant typeface, you have considerable leeway to turn up or tone down this pairing’s “visual volume and vibration,” as Terrance puts it.

Unexpected pairings like this one—akin to finding two needles in a haystack—represent the kinds of unique combinations that our Font Pairing tool uncovers.

Rugged, sophisticated type with Kairos Sans and Chronicle Display.

A person joyfully leaps into the air against a dramatic sunset backdrop, embodying a sense of freedom and exhilaration.

Try our Font Pairing tool for yourself.

The power of AI makes it easy to discover pairings that might not have otherwise occurred to you. Use our Font Pairing tool to not only save valuable time and energy, but also to take your design game to the next level.

To learn more about our Font Pairing tool, watch our on-demand webinar led by Creative Type Director Terrance Weinzierl and Monotype Fonts expert Jay Loo. If you have more questions, check out our detailed Help Center guide to the Font Pairing tool.