TYPEMATCHSEO
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PAIRING ID: PAS-MAD // ETHOS: DISPLAY + SANS-SERIF

Balancing Passion One with Mada

Anchor the expressive personality of Passion One with the utilitarian clarity of Mada.

Display Face

Passion One

Weight: 700

Body Face

Mada

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Passion One brings bold, headline, impact energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Mada absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its arabic, modern, low-contrast 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 Passion One with Mada

Anchor the expressive personality of Passion One with the utilitarian clarity of Mada.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Passion One brings bold, headline, impact energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Mada absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its arabic, modern, low-contrast 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.

Passion One thrives as a headline face thanks to its bold, headline, impact qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Mada excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its arabic, modern, low-contrast traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Passion One for H1–H3 while Mada powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Passion One make sense as the lead font?

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

Where should Mada show up?

Mada is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its arabic, modern, low-contrast 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.