Poppins + Open Sans

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Grumpy wizards make toxic brew

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 — Poppins over Open Sans, in the wild.

Poppins 600 / Open Sans 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

One of the most searched-for pairings on the web, and for sound reasons: Poppins delivers round, optimistic geometry in headings, and Open Sans — a humanist face with open apertures and a huge hinting budget — carries paragraphs without a hint of the crowding Poppins itself suffers at text sizes. Each face covers exactly the other's weakness, which is why the combination has become a default for startups and agencies.

More about each face: Poppins · 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=Poppins:wght@600&family=Open+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Poppins', 'Century Gothic', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 600;
}

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

const heading = Poppins({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: "600",
  variable: "--font-heading",
});

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