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PAIRING ID: STA-SHA // ETHOS: DISPLAY + MONOSPACE

Balancing Stardos Stencil with Share Tech Mono

Anchor the expressive personality of Stardos Stencil with the utilitarian clarity of Share Tech Mono.

Display Face

Stardos Stencil

Weight: 700

Body Face

Share Tech Mono

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Stardos Stencil brings stencil, army, rugged energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Share Tech Mono absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its tech, ui, retro 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 Stardos Stencil with Share Tech Mono

Anchor the expressive personality of Stardos Stencil with the utilitarian clarity of Share Tech Mono.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Stardos Stencil brings stencil, army, rugged energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Share Tech Mono absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its tech, ui, retro 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.

Stardos Stencil thrives as a headline face thanks to its stencil, army, rugged qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Share Tech Mono excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its tech, ui, retro traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Stardos Stencil for H1–H3 while Share Tech Mono powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Stardos Stencil', display;
  --tm-body-family: 'Share Tech Mono', monospace;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --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 Stardos Stencil at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Share Tech Mono with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Stardos Stencil make sense as the lead font?

Stardos Stencil owns the emotional register of this system. Its stencil, army, rugged profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Share Tech Mono show up?

Share Tech Mono is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its tech, ui, retro 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.