Bebas Neue + Open Sans
Grumpy wizards make toxic brew
A standfirst set in Open Sans, 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 Open Sans, in the wild.
Bebas Neue 400 / Open Sans 400 — click any section and type your own copy.
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
<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">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;
}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",
});