EB Garamond + Inter

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EB Garamond 600 / Inter 400 — click the text to edit

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

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=EB+Garamond:wght@600&family=Inter:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
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;
}
Next.js — next/font
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",
});
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