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PAIRING ID: GRU-INT // ETHOS: DISPLAY + SANS-SERIF

Balancing Gruppo with Inter Tight

Anchor the expressive personality of Gruppo with the utilitarian clarity of Inter Tight.

Display Face

Gruppo

Weight: 700

Body Face

Inter Tight

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Gruppo brings thin, techno, modern energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Inter Tight absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its compact, geometric, neutral 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 Gruppo with Inter Tight

Anchor the expressive personality of Gruppo with the utilitarian clarity of Inter Tight.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Gruppo brings thin, techno, modern energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Inter Tight absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its compact, geometric, neutral 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.

Gruppo thrives as a headline face thanks to its thin, techno, modern qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Inter Tight excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its compact, geometric, neutral traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Gruppo for H1–H3 while Inter Tight powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Gruppo', display;
  --tm-body-family: 'Inter Tight', sans-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 Gruppo at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Inter Tight with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Gruppo make sense as the lead font?

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

Where should Inter Tight show up?

Inter Tight is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its compact, geometric, neutral 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.