Space Grotesk + Work Sans
Grumpy wizards make toxic brew
A standfirst set in Work 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 — Space Grotesk over Work Sans, in the wild.
Space Grotesk 700 / Work Sans 400 — click any section and type your own copy.
Why it works
Space Grotesk keeps the quirky, monospace-derived details of Space Mono — angular terminals, a distinctive lowercase g — that make headlines feel engineered rather than styled. Work Sans, a restrained grotesque tuned for on-screen text sizes, absorbs those quirks into a calm reading texture. Since both descend from the same grotesque tradition, the pairing feels like one typeface family where only the display cut got to be weird.
More about each face: Space Grotesk · Work Sans
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=Space+Grotesk:wght@700&family=Work+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">h1, h2, h3 {
font-family: 'Space Grotesk', 'Courier New', Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
}
body {
font-family: 'Work Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
}import { Space_Grotesk, Work_Sans } from "next/font/google";
const heading = Space_Grotesk({
subsets: ["latin"],
weight: "700",
variable: "--font-heading",
});
const body = Work_Sans({
subsets: ["latin"],
weight: "400",
variable: "--font-body",
});