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PAIRING ID: LIB-SOL // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + SERIF

Balancing Libre Franklin with Solway

Build a contrast-first system where Libre Franklin leads and Solway keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Libre Franklin

Weight: 700

Body Face

Solway

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Libre Franklin brings neutral, classic, robust energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Solway absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its nature, lifestyle, slab 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 Libre Franklin with Solway

Build a contrast-first system where Libre Franklin leads and Solway keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Libre Franklin brings neutral, classic, robust energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Solway absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its nature, lifestyle, slab 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.

Libre Franklin thrives as a headline face thanks to its neutral, classic, robust qualities. Use weights 800–1000 for crisp editorial lockups.
Solway excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its nature, lifestyle, slab traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Libre Franklin for H1–H3 while Solway powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Libre Franklin', sans-serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Solway', serif;
  --tm-header-weight: 800;
  --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 Libre Franklin at 800 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Solway with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Libre Franklin make sense as the lead font?

Libre Franklin owns the emotional register of this system. Its neutral, classic, robust profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Solway show up?

Solway is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its nature, lifestyle, slab 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.