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PAIRING ID: CAT-ANT // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + SERIF

Balancing Catamaran with Antic Didone

Build a contrast-first system where Catamaran leads and Antic Didone keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Catamaran

Weight: 700

Body Face

Antic Didone

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Catamaran brings tamil, geometric, soft energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Antic Didone absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its didone, display, headline 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 Catamaran with Antic Didone

Build a contrast-first system where Catamaran leads and Antic Didone keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Catamaran brings tamil, geometric, soft energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Antic Didone absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its didone, display, headline 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.

Catamaran thrives as a headline face thanks to its tamil, geometric, soft qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Antic Didone excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its didone, display, headline traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Catamaran for H1–H3 while Antic Didone powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Catamaran', sans-serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Antic Didone', serif;
  --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 Catamaran at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Antic Didone with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Catamaran make sense as the lead font?

Catamaran owns the emotional register of this system. Its tamil, geometric, soft profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Antic Didone show up?

Antic Didone is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its didone, display, headline 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.