Fraunces + Manrope

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Fraunces 700 / Manrope 400 — click the text to edit

Why it works

Fraunces brings soft, Windsor-inspired wonk to headlines — gooey terminals, chunky serifs, real personality — and Manrope answers with cool geometric restraint. The pairing works because the contrast runs on two axes at once: serif against sans and expressive against rational, so the body copy never competes with the display face. It is the signature look of current DTC and indie-brand design.

More about each face: Fraunces · Manrope

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=Fraunces:wght@700&family=Manrope:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Fraunces', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Manrope', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Fraunces, Manrope } from "next/font/google";

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

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