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PAIRING ID: HAN-STA // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + DISPLAY

Balancing Handlee with Stardos Stencil

Anchor the expressive personality of Handlee with the utilitarian clarity of Stardos Stencil.

Display Face

Handlee

Weight: 700

Body Face

Stardos Stencil

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Handlee brings marker, neat, handwritten energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Stardos Stencil absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its stencil, army, rugged 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 Handlee with Stardos Stencil

Anchor the expressive personality of Handlee with the utilitarian clarity of Stardos Stencil.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Handlee brings marker, neat, handwritten energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Stardos Stencil absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its stencil, army, rugged 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.

Handlee thrives as a headline face thanks to its marker, neat, handwritten qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Stardos Stencil excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its stencil, army, rugged traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Handlee for H1–H3 while Stardos Stencil 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 Handlee can dramatize pull quotes while Stardos Stencil keeps 1,500-word essays skimmable.
  • Conversion funnels or onboarding flows that need Stardos Stencil's stencil voice to balance Handlee's attention-grabbing display.

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Handlee', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Stardos Stencil', display;
  --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 Handlee at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Stardos Stencil with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Handlee make sense as the lead font?

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

Where should Stardos Stencil show up?

Stardos Stencil is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its stencil, army, rugged 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.