EB Garamond + Inter
Grumpy wizards make toxic brew
A standfirst set in Inter, 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 — EB Garamond over Inter, in the wild.
EB Garamond 600 / Inter 400 — click any section and type your own copy.
Why it works
A deliberate collision of eras that has become a quiet trend in literary and personal sites: EB Garamond's 16th-century proportions — low x-height, long extenders, fine calligraphic detail — give headlines an antiquarian elegance, while Inter's screen-native pragmatism handles the reading. The x-height gap that would ruin them as body/body partners works in their favor here, exaggerating the scale contrast between display and text so the hierarchy needs no extra styling.
More about each face: EB Garamond · Inter
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=EB+Garamond:wght@600&family=Inter:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">h1, h2, h3 {
font-family: 'EB Garamond', Garamond, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
font-weight: 600;
}
body {
font-family: 'Inter', -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
}import { EB_Garamond, Inter } from "next/font/google";
const heading = EB_Garamond({
subsets: ["latin"],
weight: "600",
variable: "--font-heading",
});
const body = Inter({
subsets: ["latin"],
weight: "400",
variable: "--font-body",
});