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PAIRING ID: FAU-ZIL // ETHOS: SERIF + SERIF

Systematizing Faustina & Zilla Slab

Build a mono-category system where Faustina leads and Zilla Slab keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Faustina

Weight: 700

Body Face

Zilla Slab

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Faustina brings omnibus, press, editorial energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Zilla Slab absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its slab, industrial, coding 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 Faustina & Zilla Slab

Build a mono-category system where Faustina leads and Zilla Slab keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Faustina brings omnibus, press, editorial energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Zilla Slab absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its slab, industrial, coding 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.

Faustina thrives as a headline face thanks to its omnibus, press, editorial qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Zilla Slab excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its slab, industrial, coding traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Faustina for H1–H3 while Zilla Slab powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Faustina make sense as the lead font?

Faustina owns the emotional register of this system. Its omnibus, press, editorial profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Zilla Slab show up?

Zilla Slab is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its slab, industrial, coding 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.