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Bebas Neue + Montserrat

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A standfirst set in Montserrat, 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 — Bebas Neue over Montserrat, in the wild.

Bebas Neue 400 / Montserrat 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

This pairing plays narrow against wide: Bebas Neue's tightly-packed condensed capitals against Montserrat's round, geometric lowercase built from Buenos Aires street lettering. Because both are display-minded urban sans-serifs, the tone stays consistent — confident and graphic — while the dramatic width contrast keeps headline and body from ever blurring together. Keep Montserrat at 400 and give it room; its wide forms want generous measure.

More about each face: Bebas Neue · Montserrat

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

body {
  font-family: 'Montserrat', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Bebas_Neue, Montserrat } from "next/font/google";

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

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