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PAIRING ID: NAN-LIB // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + SERIF

Balancing Nanum Brush Script with Libre Baskerville

Anchor the expressive personality of Nanum Brush Script with the utilitarian clarity of Libre Baskerville.

Display Face

Nanum Brush Script

Weight: 700

Body Face

Libre Baskerville

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Nanum Brush Script brings korean, brush, ink energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Libre Baskerville absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its tall, readable, classic 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
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High contrast negative space.

Accent
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Legibility on high-chroma.

Pairing Strategy

Balancing Nanum Brush Script with Libre Baskerville

Anchor the expressive personality of Nanum Brush Script with the utilitarian clarity of Libre Baskerville.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Nanum Brush Script brings korean, brush, ink energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Libre Baskerville absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its tall, readable, classic 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.

Nanum Brush Script thrives as a headline face thanks to its korean, brush, ink qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Libre Baskerville excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its tall, readable, classic traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Nanum Brush Script for H1–H3 while Libre Baskerville powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Nanum Brush Script', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Libre Baskerville', 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 Nanum Brush Script at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Libre Baskerville with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Nanum Brush Script make sense as the lead font?

Nanum Brush Script owns the emotional register of this system. Its korean, brush, ink profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Libre Baskerville show up?

Libre Baskerville is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its tall, readable, classic 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.