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PAIRING ID: DOS-MAR // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Systematizing Dosis & Marvel

Build a mono-category system where Dosis leads and Marvel keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Dosis

Weight: 700

Body Face

Marvel

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Dosis brings rounded, friendly, soft energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Marvel absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its modern, narrow, clean 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 Dosis & Marvel

Build a mono-category system where Dosis leads and Marvel keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Dosis brings rounded, friendly, soft energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Marvel absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its modern, narrow, clean 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.

Dosis thrives as a headline face thanks to its rounded, friendly, soft qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Marvel excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its modern, narrow, clean traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Dosis for H1–H3 while Marvel powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Dosis make sense as the lead font?

Dosis owns the emotional register of this system. Its rounded, friendly, soft profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Marvel show up?

Marvel is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its modern, narrow, clean 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.