Dancing Script + Open Sans

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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 — Dancing Script over Open Sans, in the wild.

Dancing Script 700 / Open Sans 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

Dancing Script's bouncy casual lettering brings a handmade, celebratory feel, and Open Sans keeps everything beneath it legible and unfussy. Because the script ships in real weights, the 700 can hold its own as a genuine heading face at moderate sizes instead of only working as oversized decoration. The neutrality of Open Sans is what keeps the combination from tipping into scrapbook territory — one voice performs, the other narrates.

More about each face: Dancing Script · 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=Dancing+Script:wght@700&family=Open+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Dancing Script', 'Brush Script MT', 'Segoe Script', cursive;
  font-weight: 700;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Dancing_Script, Open_Sans } from "next/font/google";

const heading = Dancing_Script({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: "700",
  variable: "--font-heading",
});

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