Bebas Neue + Open Sans

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Bebas Neue 400 / Open Sans 400 — click the text to edit

Why it works

Bebas Neue is all-caps, condensed and single-weight, which means it needs a body partner that supplies everything it lacks: lowercase, warmth and long-form readability. Open Sans delivers exactly that with its humanist skeleton and big apertures. The result is a poster-style hierarchy — towering uppercase headlines over quiet, effortless paragraphs — that works especially well when headlines are short and punchy.

More about each face: Bebas Neue · 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=Bebas+Neue:wght@400&family=Open+Sans: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: 'Open Sans', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Bebas_Neue, Open_Sans } from "next/font/google";

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

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