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PAIRING ID: PUB-IND // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + HANDWRITING

Balancing Public Sans with Indie Flower

Build a contrast-first system where Public Sans leads and Indie Flower keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Public Sans

Weight: 700

Body Face

Indie Flower

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Public Sans brings neutral, governmental, clean energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Indie Flower absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its carefree, handwritten, open 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 Public Sans with Indie Flower

Build a contrast-first system where Public Sans leads and Indie Flower keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Public Sans brings neutral, governmental, clean energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Indie Flower absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its carefree, handwritten, open 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.

Public Sans thrives as a headline face thanks to its neutral, governmental, clean qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Indie Flower excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its carefree, handwritten, open traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Public Sans for H1–H3 while Indie Flower powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Public Sans make sense as the lead font?

Public Sans owns the emotional register of this system. Its neutral, governmental, clean profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Indie Flower show up?

Indie Flower is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its carefree, handwritten, open 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.