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PAIRING ID: SPA-TEN // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + SANS-SERIF

Systematizing Space Grotesk & Tenor Sans

Build a mono-category system where Space Grotesk leads and Tenor Sans keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Space Grotesk

Weight: 700

Body Face

Tenor Sans

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Space Grotesk brings quirky, monospaced-feel, brutalist energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Tenor Sans absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its humanist, display, fashion 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 Space Grotesk & Tenor Sans

Build a mono-category system where Space Grotesk leads and Tenor Sans keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Space Grotesk brings quirky, monospaced-feel, brutalist energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Tenor Sans absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its humanist, display, fashion 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.

Space Grotesk thrives as a headline face thanks to its quirky, monospaced-feel, brutalist qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Tenor Sans excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its humanist, display, fashion traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Space Grotesk for H1–H3 while Tenor Sans powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Space Grotesk', sans-serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Tenor Sans', sans-serif;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.01em;
  --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 Space Grotesk at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Tenor Sans with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Space Grotesk make sense as the lead font?

Space Grotesk owns the emotional register of this system. Its quirky, monospaced-feel, brutalist profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Tenor Sans show up?

Tenor Sans is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its humanist, display, fashion 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.