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PAIRING ID: GOC-VT3 // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + MONOSPACE

Balancing Gochi Hand with VT323

Anchor the expressive personality of Gochi Hand with the utilitarian clarity of VT323.

Display Face

Gochi Hand

Weight: 700

Body Face

VT323

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Gochi Hand brings marker, childish, fun energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. VT323 absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its pixel, retro, terminal 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 Gochi Hand with VT323

Anchor the expressive personality of Gochi Hand with the utilitarian clarity of VT323.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Gochi Hand brings marker, childish, fun energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. VT323 absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its pixel, retro, terminal 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.

Gochi Hand thrives as a headline face thanks to its marker, childish, fun qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
VT323 excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its pixel, retro, terminal traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Gochi Hand for H1–H3 while VT323 powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

  • High-growth SaaS landing pages that require marker hero statements with trustworthy product copy.
  • Editorial magazines and thought-leadership hubs where Gochi Hand can dramatize pull quotes while VT323 keeps 1,500-word essays skimmable.
  • Conversion funnels or onboarding flows that need VT323's pixel voice to balance Gochi Hand's attention-grabbing display.

Accessibility Notes

Maintain a minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio for VT323 body copy and loosen letter-spacing to 0.01em for uppercase Gochi Hand moments. Pairing different categories demands disciplined color pairing—test both light and dark themes to ensure VT323 does not bloom at small sizes.

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Gochi Hand', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'VT323', monospace;
  --tm-header-weight: 400;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.04em;
  --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 Gochi Hand at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on VT323 with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Gochi Hand make sense as the lead font?

Gochi Hand owns the emotional register of this system. Its marker, childish, fun profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should VT323 show up?

VT323 is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its pixel, retro, terminal 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.