Space Grotesk + Work Sans

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Space Grotesk 700 / Work Sans 400 — click the text to edit

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

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=Space+Grotesk:wght@700&family=Work+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
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;
}
Next.js — next/font
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",
});
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