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PAIRING ID: CAU-SPA // ETHOS: SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Balancing Caudex with Space Grotesk

Build a contrast-first system where Caudex leads and Space Grotesk keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Caudex

Weight: 700

Body Face

Space Grotesk

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Caudex brings medieval, modern, book energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Space Grotesk absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its quirky, monospaced-feel, brutalist 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 Caudex with Space Grotesk

Build a contrast-first system where Caudex leads and Space Grotesk keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Caudex brings medieval, modern, book energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Space Grotesk absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its quirky, monospaced-feel, brutalist 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.

Caudex thrives as a headline face thanks to its medieval, modern, book qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Space Grotesk excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its quirky, monospaced-feel, brutalist traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Caudex for H1–H3 while Space Grotesk powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Caudex make sense as the lead font?

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

Where should Space Grotesk show up?

Space Grotesk is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its quirky, monospaced-feel, brutalist 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.