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PAIRING ID: SIG-LEM // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + DISPLAY

Balancing Signika with Lemonada

Build a contrast-first system where Signika leads and Lemonada keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Signika

Weight: 700

Body Face

Lemonada

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Signika brings gentle, signage, clear energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Lemonada absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its arabic, modern, playful 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 Signika with Lemonada

Build a contrast-first system where Signika leads and Lemonada keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Signika brings gentle, signage, clear energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Lemonada absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its arabic, modern, playful 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.

Signika thrives as a headline face thanks to its gentle, signage, clear qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Lemonada excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its arabic, modern, playful traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Signika for H1–H3 while Lemonada powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Signika', sans-serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Lemonada', display;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --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 Signika at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Lemonada with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Signika make sense as the lead font?

Signika owns the emotional register of this system. Its gentle, signage, clear profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Lemonada show up?

Lemonada is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its arabic, modern, playful 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.