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PAIRING ID: GRE-KRE // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + SERIF

Balancing Great Vibes with Kreon

Anchor the expressive personality of Great Vibes with the utilitarian clarity of Kreon.

Display Face

Great Vibes

Weight: 700

Body Face

Kreon

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Great Vibes brings calligraphy, elegant, wedding energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Kreon absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its slab, mechanical, news 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 Great Vibes with Kreon

Anchor the expressive personality of Great Vibes with the utilitarian clarity of Kreon.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Great Vibes brings calligraphy, elegant, wedding energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Kreon absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its slab, mechanical, news 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.

Great Vibes thrives as a headline face thanks to its calligraphy, elegant, wedding qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Kreon excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its slab, mechanical, news traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Great Vibes for H1–H3 while Kreon powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Great Vibes', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Kreon', serif;
  --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 Great Vibes at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Kreon with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Great Vibes make sense as the lead font?

Great Vibes owns the emotional register of this system. Its calligraphy, elegant, wedding profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Kreon show up?

Kreon is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its slab, mechanical, news 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.