Libre Baskerville + Montserrat

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Libre Baskerville 700 / Montserrat 400 — click the text to edit

Why it works

Baskerville is the archetypal transitional serif — rational, high-contrast, quietly authoritative — and Libre Baskerville's web-tuned proportions let that authority survive on screen. Montserrat's geometric lowercase provides a clean modern counterpoint in the body, its generous width echoing the serif's wide stance so the two align optically. The 250-year gap between their design traditions is exactly what makes the hierarchy feel intentional.

More about each face: Libre Baskerville · 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=Libre+Baskerville:wght@700&family=Montserrat:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Baskerville, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

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

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

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