TYPEMATCHSEO
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TYPEMATCH.

V2.1

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PAIRING ID: CAV-CIN // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + SERIF

Balancing Caveat with Cinzel

Anchor the expressive personality of Caveat with the utilitarian clarity of Cinzel.

Display Face

Caveat

Weight: 700

Body Face

Cinzel

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Caveat brings handwritten, natural, variable energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Cinzel absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its roman, classical, epic 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 Caveat with Cinzel

Anchor the expressive personality of Caveat with the utilitarian clarity of Cinzel.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Caveat brings handwritten, natural, variable energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Cinzel absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its roman, classical, epic 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.

Caveat thrives as a headline face thanks to its handwritten, natural, variable qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Cinzel excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its roman, classical, epic traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Caveat for H1–H3 while Cinzel powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Caveat make sense as the lead font?

Caveat owns the emotional register of this system. Its handwritten, natural, variable profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Cinzel show up?

Cinzel is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its roman, classical, epic 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.