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PAIRING ID: DM--COV // ETHOS: MONOSPACE + HANDWRITING

Balancing DM Mono with Covered By Your Grace

Build a contrast-first system where DM Mono leads and Covered By Your Grace keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

DM Mono

Weight: 700

Body Face

Covered By Your Grace

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. DM Mono brings geometric, modern, coding energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Covered By Your Grace absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its tall, skinny, handwritten 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 DM Mono with Covered By Your Grace

Build a contrast-first system where DM Mono leads and Covered By Your Grace keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. DM Mono brings geometric, modern, coding energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Covered By Your Grace absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its tall, skinny, handwritten 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.

DM Mono thrives as a headline face thanks to its geometric, modern, coding qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Covered By Your Grace excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its tall, skinny, handwritten traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve DM Mono for H1–H3 while Covered By Your Grace powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'DM Mono', monospace;
  --tm-body-family: 'Covered By Your Grace', handwriting;
  --tm-header-weight: 400;
  --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 DM Mono at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Covered By Your Grace with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does DM Mono make sense as the lead font?

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

Where should Covered By Your Grace show up?

Covered By Your Grace is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its tall, skinny, handwritten 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.