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PAIRING ID: DAN-NAN // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + HANDWRITING

Systematizing Dancing Script & Nanum Brush Script

Anchor the expressive personality of Dancing Script with the utilitarian clarity of Nanum Brush Script.

Display Face

Dancing Script

Weight: 700

Body Face

Nanum Brush Script

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Dancing Script brings cursive, informal, spontaneous energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Nanum Brush Script absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its korean, brush, ink 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 Dancing Script & Nanum Brush Script

Anchor the expressive personality of Dancing Script with the utilitarian clarity of Nanum Brush Script.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Dancing Script brings cursive, informal, spontaneous energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Nanum Brush Script absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its korean, brush, ink 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.

Dancing Script thrives as a headline face thanks to its cursive, informal, spontaneous qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Nanum Brush Script excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its korean, brush, ink traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Dancing Script for H1–H3 while Nanum Brush Script powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Dancing Script', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Nanum Brush Script', handwriting;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.04em;
  --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 Dancing Script at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Nanum Brush Script with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Dancing Script make sense as the lead font?

Dancing Script owns the emotional register of this system. Its cursive, informal, spontaneous profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Nanum Brush Script show up?

Nanum Brush Script is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its korean, brush, ink 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.