Bebas Neue + Work Sans

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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.

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

Why it works

Bebas Neue is all-caps condensed poster type — one weight, no lowercase, pure vertical emphasis — so it does exactly one job: short, loud headlines. Work Sans handles everything Bebas cannot: it has a real lowercase, open counters and text-size optimization, and its plain grotesque bones do not compete with the display face's drama. The contrast between towering compressed capitals and a calm mid-width paragraph creates hierarchy on its own, letting minimal layouts skip rules, boxes and other scaffolding.

More about each face: Bebas Neue · Work 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=Work+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: 'Work Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Bebas_Neue, Work_Sans } from "next/font/google";

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

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