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PAIRING ID: ALF-CAN // ETHOS: DISPLAY + SERIF

Balancing Alfa Slab One with Cantata One

Anchor the expressive personality of Alfa Slab One with the utilitarian clarity of Cantata One.

Display Face

Alfa Slab One

Weight: 700

Body Face

Cantata One

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Alfa Slab One brings heavy, slab, extreme energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Cantata One absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its high-contrast, didone, luxury texture and dependable rhythm. Together they create a typography stack that scales from high-impact landing pages to dense documentation without retooling your CSS tokens.

Typographic Hierarchy & Scale

H1The Quick Fox
H2The Quick Fox
H3The Quick Fox
PThe quick brown fox jumps over...
Dark Context
Aa

High contrast negative space.

Accent
Gg

Legibility on high-chroma.

Pairing Strategy

Balancing Alfa Slab One with Cantata One

Anchor the expressive personality of Alfa Slab One with the utilitarian clarity of Cantata One.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Alfa Slab One brings heavy, slab, extreme energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Cantata One absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its high-contrast, didone, luxury texture and dependable rhythm. Together they create a typography stack that scales from high-impact landing pages to dense documentation without retooling your CSS tokens.

Alfa Slab One thrives as a headline face thanks to its heavy, slab, extreme qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Cantata One excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its high-contrast, didone, luxury traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Alfa Slab One for H1–H3 while Cantata One powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

  • High-growth SaaS landing pages that require heavy hero statements with trustworthy product copy.
  • Editorial magazines and thought-leadership hubs where Alfa Slab One can dramatize pull quotes while Cantata One keeps 1,500-word essays skimmable.
  • Conversion funnels or onboarding flows that need Cantata One's high-contrast voice to balance Alfa Slab One's attention-grabbing display.

Accessibility Notes

Maintain a minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio for Cantata One body copy and loosen letter-spacing to 0.01em for uppercase Alfa Slab One moments. Pairing different categories demands disciplined color pairing—test both light and dark themes to ensure Cantata One does not bloom at small sizes.

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Alfa Slab One', display;
  --tm-body-family: 'Cantata One', serif;
  --tm-header-weight: 400;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.04em;
  --tm-body-tracking: 0em;
}
Heading scale: clamp(2.75rem, 4.5vw, 5.25rem) for H1, clamp(1.5rem, 2.8vw, 3rem) for H2, and keep paragraph size at 1rem–1.125rem with 1.6 line-height.
Component guidance: Buttons inherit Alfa Slab One at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Cantata One with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Alfa Slab One make sense as the lead font?

Alfa Slab One owns the emotional register of this system. Its heavy, slab, extreme profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Cantata One show up?

Cantata One is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its high-contrast, didone, luxury qualities reduce fatigue on dense layouts.

Does this pairing support complex localization?

Yes—both families are available on Google Fonts with generous glyph coverage. Test cyrillic/latin accents early, but most Latin-based locales and UI patterns are fully supported.