Elegant font pairings

Elegance in typography usually comes from contrast: high-contrast serifs with delicate hairlines set large, answered by something quiet underneath. These pairings borrow from fashion mastheads and wedding stationery — drama in the display sizes, restraint everywhere else.

The trap with elegant faces is using them for body text; hairline strokes disintegrate at small sizes. Every pairing here keeps the decorative voice in headlines only and hands paragraphs to a face designed for reading, so the page stays as usable as it is beautiful.