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PAIRING ID: CAB-GLO // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + HANDWRITING

Balancing Cabin with Gloria Hallelujah

Build a contrast-first system where Cabin leads and Gloria Hallelujah keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Cabin

Weight: 700

Body Face

Gloria Hallelujah

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Cabin brings humanist, modern, approachable energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Gloria Hallelujah absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its fun, school, marker 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 Cabin with Gloria Hallelujah

Build a contrast-first system where Cabin leads and Gloria Hallelujah keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Cabin brings humanist, modern, approachable energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Gloria Hallelujah absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its fun, school, marker 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.

Cabin thrives as a headline face thanks to its humanist, modern, approachable qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Gloria Hallelujah excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its fun, school, marker traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Cabin for H1–H3 while Gloria Hallelujah powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Cabin', sans-serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Gloria Hallelujah', handwriting;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.01em;
  --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 Cabin at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Gloria Hallelujah with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Cabin make sense as the lead font?

Cabin owns the emotional register of this system. Its humanist, modern, approachable profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Gloria Hallelujah show up?

Gloria Hallelujah is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its fun, school, marker 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.