Cormorant Garamond + Fira Sans

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

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

— Matthew Carter

Fig. 1 — Cormorant Garamond over Fira Sans, in the wild.

Cormorant Garamond 600 / Fira Sans 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

Cormorant Garamond's delicate, high-contrast strokes and long extenders are pure display romance — gorgeous at 40 pixels, fragile below 20 — so it needs a body partner engineered for utility. Fira Sans, designed for Mozilla's Firefox OS at small screen sizes, is precisely that: sturdy, open and unglamorous. The pairing exaggerates the display-versus-text division of labor, letting the Garamond be as ornate as it likes while reading stays effortless.

More about each face: Cormorant Garamond · Fira 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=Cormorant+Garamond:wght@600&family=Fira+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond', Garamond, 'Times New Roman', serif;
  font-weight: 600;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Fira Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Cormorant_Garamond, Fira_Sans } from "next/font/google";

const heading = Cormorant_Garamond({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: "600",
  variable: "--font-heading",
});

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