TYPEMATCHSEO

TYPEMATCH.

V2.1

700
400
PAIRING ID: SAT-DAM // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + HANDWRITING

Systematizing Satisfy & Damion

Anchor the expressive personality of Satisfy with the utilitarian clarity of Damion.

Display Face

Satisfy

Weight: 700

Body Face

Damion

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Satisfy brings brush, script, classic energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Damion absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its casual, script, vintage 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

Systematizing Satisfy & Damion

Anchor the expressive personality of Satisfy with the utilitarian clarity of Damion.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Satisfy brings brush, script, classic energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Damion absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its casual, script, vintage 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.

Satisfy thrives as a headline face thanks to its brush, script, classic qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Damion excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its casual, script, vintage traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Satisfy for H1–H3 while Damion powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Satisfy', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Damion', handwriting;
  --tm-header-weight: 400;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.04em;
  --tm-body-tracking: -0.005em;
}
Heading scale: clamp(2.75rem, 3.6vw, 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 Satisfy at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Damion with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Satisfy make sense as the lead font?

Satisfy owns the emotional register of this system. Its brush, script, classic profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Damion show up?

Damion is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its casual, script, vintage 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.