Prata + 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 — Prata over Onest, in the wild.

Prata 400 / Onest 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

Prata's high-contrast Didone makes a poised, fashion-magazine headline, and Onest answers with a quiet, low-contrast sans that keeps the body clean and neutral. The gap between Prata's dramatic thick-and-thin strokes and Onest's even, humble strokes is what powers the hierarchy, giving a boutique or lookbook a refined masthead over effortlessly readable copy.

More about each face: Prata · Onest

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=Prata:wght@400&family=Onest:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Prata', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Onest', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Prata, Onest } from "next/font/google";

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

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

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