Lobster + Open Sans

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A standfirst set in Open Sans, 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 — Lobster over Open Sans, in the wild.

Lobster 400 / Open Sans 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

The classic food-truck pairing: Lobster's thick retro script sets a hand-painted-sign tone, and Open Sans provides the plainest possible counterweight so the script reads as a deliberate accent rather than a theme. The gap in personality is the point — any body face with character of its own would fight the script. Keep Lobster strictly to logos, section titles and short headlines; it has one voice and it uses it loudly.

More about each face: Lobster · Open Sans

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=Lobster:wght@400&family=Open+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Lobster', 'Brush Script MT', 'Segoe Script', cursive;
  font-weight: 400;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Lobster, Open_Sans } from "next/font/google";

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

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