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PAIRING ID: COR-SAN // ETHOS: SERIF + SERIF

Systematizing Cormorant Garamond & Sanchez

Build a mono-category system where Cormorant Garamond leads and Sanchez keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Cormorant Garamond

Weight: 700

Body Face

Sanchez

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Cormorant Garamond brings luxurious, sharp, expressive energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Sanchez absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its slab, square, rockwell-like 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

Systematizing Cormorant Garamond & Sanchez

Build a mono-category system where Cormorant Garamond leads and Sanchez keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Cormorant Garamond brings luxurious, sharp, expressive energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Sanchez absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its slab, square, rockwell-like 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.

Cormorant Garamond thrives as a headline face thanks to its luxurious, sharp, expressive qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Sanchez excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its slab, square, rockwell-like traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Cormorant Garamond for H1–H3 while Sanchez powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Cormorant Garamond', serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Sanchez', serif;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.01em;
  --tm-body-tracking: -0.005em;
}
Heading scale: clamp(2.75rem, 3.6vw, 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 Cormorant Garamond at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Sanchez with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Cormorant Garamond make sense as the lead font?

Cormorant Garamond owns the emotional register of this system. Its luxurious, sharp, expressive profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Sanchez show up?

Sanchez is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its slab, square, rockwell-like 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.