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PAIRING ID: NOR-BAD // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + HANDWRITING

Systematizing Norican & Bad Script

Anchor the expressive personality of Norican with the utilitarian clarity of Bad Script.

Display Face

Norican

Weight: 700

Body Face

Bad Script

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Norican brings calligraphy, vintage, script energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Bad Script absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its casual, messy, handwritten 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 Norican & Bad Script

Anchor the expressive personality of Norican with the utilitarian clarity of Bad Script.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Norican brings calligraphy, vintage, script energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Bad Script absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its casual, messy, handwritten 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.

Norican thrives as a headline face thanks to its calligraphy, vintage, script qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Bad Script excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its casual, messy, handwritten traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Norican for H1–H3 while Bad Script powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Norican', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Bad Script', handwriting;
  --tm-header-weight: 400;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.04em;
  --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 Norican at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Bad Script with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Norican make sense as the lead font?

Norican owns the emotional register of this system. Its calligraphy, vintage, script profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Bad Script show up?

Bad Script is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its casual, messy, handwritten 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.