TYPEMATCHSEO
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TYPEMATCH.

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PAIRING ID: ORB-YAN // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Systematizing Orbitron & Yantramanav

Build a mono-category system where Orbitron leads and Yantramanav keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Orbitron

Weight: 700

Body Face

Yantramanav

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Orbitron brings sci-fi, futuristic, space energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Yantramanav absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its devanagari, condensed, technical 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 Orbitron & Yantramanav

Build a mono-category system where Orbitron leads and Yantramanav keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Orbitron brings sci-fi, futuristic, space energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Yantramanav absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its devanagari, condensed, technical 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.

Orbitron thrives as a headline face thanks to its sci-fi, futuristic, space qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Yantramanav excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its devanagari, condensed, technical traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Orbitron for H1–H3 while Yantramanav powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Orbitron', sans-serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Yantramanav', 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 Orbitron at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Yantramanav with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Orbitron make sense as the lead font?

Orbitron owns the emotional register of this system. Its sci-fi, futuristic, space profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Yantramanav show up?

Yantramanav is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its devanagari, condensed, technical 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.