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PAIRING ID: SOL-QUI // ETHOS: SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Balancing Solway with Quicksand

Build a contrast-first system where Solway leads and Quicksand keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Solway

Weight: 700

Body Face

Quicksand

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Solway brings nature, lifestyle, slab energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Quicksand absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its rounded, geometric, light 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 Solway with Quicksand

Build a contrast-first system where Solway leads and Quicksand keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Solway brings nature, lifestyle, slab energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Quicksand absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its rounded, geometric, light 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.

Solway thrives as a headline face thanks to its nature, lifestyle, slab qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Quicksand excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its rounded, geometric, light traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Solway for H1–H3 while Quicksand powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Solway make sense as the lead font?

Solway owns the emotional register of this system. Its nature, lifestyle, slab profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Quicksand show up?

Quicksand is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its rounded, geometric, light 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.