Red Hat Display + 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 — Red Hat Display over Onest, in the wild.
Red Hat Display 700 / Onest 400 — click any section and type your own copy.
Why it works
Two sans-serifs kept apart by contrast of construction: Red Hat Display's squared geometric curves and single-story a give headings an engineered, open-source confidence, while Onest's quieter neo-grotesque recedes into calm, readable paragraphs. They share a low-contrast, upright rhythm so the page feels cohesive, but the heading is clearly the one doing the talking.
More about each face: Red Hat Display · Onest
Use this pairing
<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=Red+Hat+Display:wght@700&family=Onest:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">h1, h2, h3 {
font-family: 'Red Hat Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
}
body {
font-family: 'Onest', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
}import { Red_Hat_Display, Onest } from "next/font/google";
const heading = Red_Hat_Display({
subsets: ["latin"],
weight: "700",
variable: "--font-heading",
});
const body = Onest({
subsets: ["latin"],
weight: "400",
variable: "--font-body",
});