Fraunces + Onest
Grumpy wizards make toxic brew
A standfirst set in Onest, 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 — Fraunces over Onest, in the wild.
Fraunces 600 / Onest 400 — click any section and type your own copy.
Why it works
Fraunces lends its soft, wonky Old Style character to the headline, and Onest keeps the paragraph in a calm, low-contrast neo-grotesque that stays out of the way. The era tension — a nostalgic display serif over a thoroughly modern UI sans — is exactly the warm-but-legible formula behind so much current branding, with Onest quietly doing the reading work Fraunces isn't built for.
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=Fraunces:wght@600&family=Onest:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">h1, h2, h3 {
font-family: 'Fraunces', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
font-weight: 600;
}
body {
font-family: 'Onest', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
}import { Fraunces, Onest } from "next/font/google";
const heading = Fraunces({
subsets: ["latin"],
weight: "600",
variable: "--font-heading",
});
const body = Onest({
subsets: ["latin"],
weight: "400",
variable: "--font-body",
});