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PAIRING ID: SHA-NAN // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + MONOSPACE

Balancing Shadows Into Light with Nanum Gothic Coding

Anchor the expressive personality of Shadows Into Light with the utilitarian clarity of Nanum Gothic Coding.

Display Face

Shadows Into Light

Weight: 700

Body Face

Nanum Gothic Coding

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Shadows Into Light brings neat, handwritten, school energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Nanum Gothic Coding absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its korean, coding, mono 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 Shadows Into Light with Nanum Gothic Coding

Anchor the expressive personality of Shadows Into Light with the utilitarian clarity of Nanum Gothic Coding.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Shadows Into Light brings neat, handwritten, school energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Nanum Gothic Coding absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its korean, coding, mono 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.

Shadows Into Light thrives as a headline face thanks to its neat, handwritten, school qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Nanum Gothic Coding excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its korean, coding, mono traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Shadows Into Light for H1–H3 while Nanum Gothic Coding powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Shadows Into Light', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Nanum Gothic Coding', monospace;
  --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 Shadows Into Light at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Nanum Gothic Coding with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Shadows Into Light make sense as the lead font?

Shadows Into Light owns the emotional register of this system. Its neat, handwritten, school profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Nanum Gothic Coding show up?

Nanum Gothic Coding is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its korean, coding, mono 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.