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PAIRING ID: SYN-FRE // ETHOS: SANS-SERIF + DISPLAY

Balancing Syne with Fredericka the Great

Build a contrast-first system where Syne leads and Fredericka the Great keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Syne

Weight: 700

Body Face

Fredericka the Great

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Syne brings art-house, extreme, unique energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Fredericka the Great absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its sketch, shadow, hand-drawn 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 Syne with Fredericka the Great

Build a contrast-first system where Syne leads and Fredericka the Great keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Syne brings art-house, extreme, unique energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Fredericka the Great absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its sketch, shadow, hand-drawn 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.

Syne thrives as a headline face thanks to its art-house, extreme, unique qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Fredericka the Great excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its sketch, shadow, hand-drawn traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Syne for H1–H3 while Fredericka the Great powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

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

Accessibility Notes

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

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

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

FAQs

Why does Syne make sense as the lead font?

Syne owns the emotional register of this system. Its art-house, extreme, unique profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Fredericka the Great show up?

Fredericka the Great is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its sketch, shadow, hand-drawn 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.