Fontduet

Be Vietnam Pro + Newsreader

editorialfriendlyclassic

Grumpy wizards make toxic brew

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

The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, mixing jugs of quiet vodka while the jury watches. Click anywhere in this preview and type your own text to try the pairing.

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

— Matthew Carter

Fig. 1 — Be Vietnam Pro over Newsreader, in the wild.

Be Vietnam Pro 700 / Newsreader 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

Be Vietnam Pro's narrow, upright humanist sans gives a friendly, efficient headline, and Newsreader carries the body with a warm, optically-sized serif built for long reading. The sans supplies a modern, approachable voice up top while the serif does the patient work below, a change of register that keeps a content site both welcoming and easy to read at length.

More about each face: Be Vietnam Pro · Newsreader

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=Be+Vietnam+Pro:wght@700&family=Newsreader:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Be Vietnam Pro', '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 { Be_Vietnam_Pro, Newsreader } from "next/font/google";

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

const body = Newsreader({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: "400",
  variable: "--font-body",
});
From the same deskKeychord— keyboard shortcuts for every app

Related pairings