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PAIRING ID: ROC-SOU // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + SERIF

Balancing Rock Salt with Source Serif 4

Anchor the expressive personality of Rock Salt with the utilitarian clarity of Source Serif 4.

Display Face

Rock Salt

Weight: 700

Body Face

Source Serif 4

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Rock Salt brings marker, felt-tip, messy energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Source Serif 4 absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its adobe, text, companion 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 Rock Salt with Source Serif 4

Anchor the expressive personality of Rock Salt with the utilitarian clarity of Source Serif 4.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Rock Salt brings marker, felt-tip, messy energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Source Serif 4 absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its adobe, text, companion 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.

Rock Salt thrives as a headline face thanks to its marker, felt-tip, messy qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Source Serif 4 excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its adobe, text, companion traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Rock Salt for H1–H3 while Source Serif 4 powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

  • High-growth SaaS landing pages that require marker hero statements with trustworthy product copy.
  • Editorial magazines and thought-leadership hubs where Rock Salt can dramatize pull quotes while Source Serif 4 keeps 1,500-word essays skimmable.
  • Conversion funnels or onboarding flows that need Source Serif 4's adobe voice to balance Rock Salt's attention-grabbing display.

Accessibility Notes

Maintain a minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio for Source Serif 4 body copy and loosen letter-spacing to 0.01em for uppercase Rock Salt moments. Pairing different categories demands disciplined color pairing—test both light and dark themes to ensure Source Serif 4 does not bloom at small sizes.

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Rock Salt', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Source Serif 4', serif;
  --tm-header-weight: 400;
  --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 Rock Salt at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Source Serif 4 with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Rock Salt make sense as the lead font?

Rock Salt owns the emotional register of this system. Its marker, felt-tip, messy profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Source Serif 4 show up?

Source Serif 4 is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its adobe, text, companion 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.