TYPEMATCHSEO
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PAIRING ID: OUT-SIG // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Systematizing Outfit & Signika

Build a mono-category system where Outfit leads and Signika keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Outfit

Weight: 700

Body Face

Signika

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Outfit brings geometric, brand, bold energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Signika absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its gentle, signage, clear 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 Outfit & Signika

Build a mono-category system where Outfit leads and Signika keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Outfit brings geometric, brand, bold energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Signika absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its gentle, signage, clear 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.

Outfit thrives as a headline face thanks to its geometric, brand, bold qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Signika excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its gentle, signage, clear traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Outfit for H1–H3 while Signika powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Outfit make sense as the lead font?

Outfit owns the emotional register of this system. Its geometric, brand, bold profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Signika show up?

Signika is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its gentle, signage, clear 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.