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PAIRING ID: RAD-EL- // ETHOS: SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Balancing Radley with El Messiri

Build a contrast-first system where Radley leads and El Messiri keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Radley

Weight: 700

Body Face

El Messiri

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Radley brings woodcut, hand-carved, display energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. El Messiri absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its arabic, modern, curved 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 Radley with El Messiri

Build a contrast-first system where Radley leads and El Messiri keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Radley brings woodcut, hand-carved, display energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. El Messiri absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its arabic, modern, curved 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.

Radley thrives as a headline face thanks to its woodcut, hand-carved, display qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
El Messiri excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its arabic, modern, curved traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Radley for H1–H3 while El Messiri powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Radley make sense as the lead font?

Radley owns the emotional register of this system. Its woodcut, hand-carved, display profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should El Messiri show up?

El Messiri is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its arabic, modern, curved 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.