Domine + Open Sans

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A standfirst set in Open 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 — Domine over Open Sans, in the wild.

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

Why it works

Domine was drawn specifically for on-screen body sizes, so as a heading face its newspaper-serif sturdiness comes across dense and authoritative rather than delicate. Open Sans, one of the most rendering-proof faces on the web, keeps paragraphs frictionless beneath it. The result is a dependable editorial hierarchy — serif authority up top, neutral clarity below — that suits news-style blogs and content-heavy marketing pages.

More about each face: Domine · 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=Domine:wght@700&family=Open+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Domine', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

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

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

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