TYPEMATCHSEO

TYPEMATCH.

V2.1

700
400
PAIRING ID: SIG-PET // ETHOS: DISPLAY + SERIF

Balancing Sigmar One with Petrona

Anchor the expressive personality of Sigmar One with the utilitarian clarity of Petrona.

Display Face

Sigmar One

Weight: 700

Body Face

Petrona

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Sigmar One brings fun, bold, heavy energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Petrona absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its ink-traps, personality, cookery 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 Sigmar One with Petrona

Anchor the expressive personality of Sigmar One with the utilitarian clarity of Petrona.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Sigmar One brings fun, bold, heavy energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Petrona absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its ink-traps, personality, cookery 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.

Sigmar One thrives as a headline face thanks to its fun, bold, heavy qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Petrona excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its ink-traps, personality, cookery traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Sigmar One for H1–H3 while Petrona powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Sigmar One', display;
  --tm-body-family: 'Petrona', 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 Sigmar One at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Petrona with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Sigmar One make sense as the lead font?

Sigmar One owns the emotional register of this system. Its fun, bold, heavy profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Petrona show up?

Petrona is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its ink-traps, personality, cookery 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.