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PAIRING ID: SAN-ROS // ETHOS: SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Balancing Sanchez with Rosario

Build a contrast-first system where Sanchez leads and Rosario keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Sanchez

Weight: 700

Body Face

Rosario

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Sanchez brings slab, square, rockwell-like energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Rosario absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its classic, semi-serif, elegant 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 Sanchez with Rosario

Build a contrast-first system where Sanchez leads and Rosario keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Sanchez brings slab, square, rockwell-like energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Rosario absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its classic, semi-serif, elegant 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.

Sanchez thrives as a headline face thanks to its slab, square, rockwell-like qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Rosario excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its classic, semi-serif, elegant traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Sanchez for H1–H3 while Rosario powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Sanchez make sense as the lead font?

Sanchez owns the emotional register of this system. Its slab, square, rockwell-like profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Rosario show up?

Rosario is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its classic, semi-serif, elegant 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.