Archivo + Open Sans

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Archivo 700 / Open Sans 400 — click the text to edit

Why it works

Archivo descends from late-19th-century American grotesques, and at bold its squarish curves and firm horizontals give headlines a planted, institutional weight without any display-face theatrics. Open Sans shares the grotesque-with-humanist-touches recipe, so the two align in skeleton while differing usefully in temperature: Archivo stern above, Open Sans soft and highly legible below. It is a low-risk formula for SaaS and ecommerce pages that want authority from weight and structure rather than novelty.

More about each face: Archivo · Open Sans

Use this pairing

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=Archivo:wght@700&family=Open+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Archivo', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Archivo, Open_Sans } from "next/font/google";

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

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