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PAIRING ID: PT--PAT // ETHOS: SERIF + DISPLAY

Balancing PT Serif with Patua One

Build a contrast-first system where PT Serif leads and Patua One keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

PT Serif

Weight: 700

Body Face

Patua One

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. PT Serif brings transitional, universal, humanist energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Patua One absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its slab, curved, friendly 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 PT Serif with Patua One

Build a contrast-first system where PT Serif leads and Patua One keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. PT Serif brings transitional, universal, humanist energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Patua One absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its slab, curved, friendly 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.

PT Serif thrives as a headline face thanks to its transitional, universal, humanist qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Patua One excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its slab, curved, friendly traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve PT Serif for H1–H3 while Patua One powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'PT Serif', serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Patua One', display;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.01em;
  --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 PT Serif at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Patua One with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does PT Serif make sense as the lead font?

PT Serif owns the emotional register of this system. Its transitional, universal, humanist profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Patua One show up?

Patua One is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its slab, curved, friendly 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.