Albert Sans + Newsreader

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A standfirst set in Newsreader, one size up — where a pairing starts earning trust.

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“Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.”

— Matthew Carter

Fig. 1 — Albert Sans over Newsreader, in the wild.

Albert Sans 700 / Newsreader 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

Albert Sans brings a crisp, slightly retro geometric headline, and Newsreader supplies a warm, optically-tuned serif built for long-form reading. The clean geometric sans against the humanist serif draws a clear line between title and text, and Newsreader's literary calm gives the paragraphs a settled, editorial quality that a geometric body could never match.

More about each face: Albert Sans · Newsreader

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HTML — Google Fonts embed

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Albert+Sans:wght@700&family=Newsreader:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS

h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Albert Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}

Next.js — next/font

import { Albert_Sans, Newsreader } from "next/font/google";

const heading = Albert_Sans({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: "700",
  variable: "--font-heading",
});

const body = Newsreader({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: "400",
  variable: "--font-body",
});

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