Great Vibes + Montserrat

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Grumpy wizards make toxic brew

A standfirst set in Montserrat, 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 — Great Vibes over Montserrat, in the wild.

Great Vibes 400 / Montserrat 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

Formal calligraphy over geometric sans is the standard invitation formula, and this is its cleanest Google Fonts expression: Great Vibes supplies the ornate flourishes, Montserrat's even, wide letterforms supply the small caps-style supporting text — dates, names, venues — with quiet precision. The script's hairlines demand large sizes and generous whitespace, and Montserrat's low-contrast geometry never intrudes on them. Elegant, predictable and hard to get wrong.

More about each face: Great Vibes · Montserrat

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=Great+Vibes:wght@400&family=Montserrat:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Great Vibes', 'Snell Roundhand', 'Segoe Script', cursive;
  font-weight: 400;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Montserrat', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Great_Vibes, Montserrat } from "next/font/google";

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

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