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PAIRING ID: LEX-KAR // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Systematizing Lexend & Karla

Build a mono-category system where Lexend leads and Karla keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Lexend

Weight: 700

Body Face

Karla

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Lexend brings accessible, readable, educational energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Karla absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its grotesque, humanist, quirky 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

Systematizing Lexend & Karla

Build a mono-category system where Lexend leads and Karla keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Lexend brings accessible, readable, educational energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Karla absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its grotesque, humanist, quirky 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.

Lexend thrives as a headline face thanks to its accessible, readable, educational qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Karla excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its grotesque, humanist, quirky traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Lexend for H1–H3 while Karla powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Lexend', sans-serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Karla', sans-serif;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.01em;
  --tm-body-tracking: -0.005em;
}
Heading scale: clamp(2.75rem, 3.6vw, 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 Lexend at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Karla with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Lexend make sense as the lead font?

Lexend owns the emotional register of this system. Its accessible, readable, educational profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Karla show up?

Karla is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its grotesque, humanist, quirky 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.