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PAIRING ID: IMB-YEL // ETHOS: SERIF + HANDWRITING

Balancing Imbue with Yellowtail

Build a contrast-first system where Imbue leads and Yellowtail keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Imbue

Weight: 700

Body Face

Yellowtail

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Imbue brings didone, variable, poster energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Yellowtail absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its brush, script, retro 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 Imbue with Yellowtail

Build a contrast-first system where Imbue leads and Yellowtail keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Imbue brings didone, variable, poster energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Yellowtail absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its brush, script, retro 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.

Imbue thrives as a headline face thanks to its didone, variable, poster qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Yellowtail excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its brush, script, retro traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Imbue for H1–H3 while Yellowtail powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Imbue', serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Yellowtail', handwriting;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.01em;
  --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 Imbue at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Yellowtail with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Imbue make sense as the lead font?

Imbue owns the emotional register of this system. Its didone, variable, poster profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Yellowtail show up?

Yellowtail is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its brush, script, retro 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.