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  1. 1Great Vibes and Cormorant GaramondGreat Vibes and Cormorant GaramondBest for: wedding invitations and save-the-dates. Use Great Vibes only for the couple's names and let Cormorant Garamond carry the date, venue and RSVP details. Great Vibes is a flowing script with formal lowercase letters and smooth connecting ligatures, so it does the romantic work in a few…0
  2. 2Playfair Display and Source Sans 3Playfair Display and Source Sans 3Best for: dinner menus, event programs and place cards. Playfair Display is a high-contrast transitional serif drawn for large sizes, with delicate hairlines that take influence from John Baskerville and Scotch Roman designs. That drama suits dish names and section headings but turns fragile in…0
  3. 3Abril Fatface and LatoAbril Fatface and LatoBest for: café menus, chalkboard-style boards and bakery price lists. Abril Fatface takes its cue from the heavy titling fonts on 19th-century British and French advertising posters, so a single word like Coffee reads from across the room. Lato calms it down: Łukasz Dziedzic aimed for a typeface…0
  4. 4Montserrat and MerriweatherMontserrat and MerriweatherBest for: blog posts, how-to guides and printed handouts. Merriweather was designed as a text face that is pleasant to read on screens, with a very large x-height, sturdy serifs and open forms, so long paragraphs hold up on a phone or a tired office printer. Montserrat, which Julieta Ulanovsky…0
  5. 5Oswald and Open SansOswald and Open SansBest for: slide decks and team presentations. Slides need titles that fit on one line and body text that survives a projector, and this pair handles both. Oswald reworks the narrow Alternate Gothic style, so a long title stays big without wrapping. Open Sans, a humanist sans by Steve Matteson with…0
  6. 6Bebas Neue and RobotoBebas Neue and RobotoBest for: event posters, flyers and yard sale signs. Bebas Neue is an all-caps display face built for headlines, captions and packaging, and its tall, tightly spaced capitals fill the top of a poster with very little effort. Roboto handles the who, where and when underneath. Its largely geometric…0
  7. 7Lora and InterLora and InterBest for: resumes, cover letters and job applications. A resume gets skimmed in seconds, so the body font matters more than the headings. Inter was designed for computer screens, with a tall x-height that keeps bullet points readable at small sizes and tabular numbers that line up dates neatly.…0
  8. 8DM Serif Display and DM SansDM Serif Display and DM SansBest for: email newsletters and small-business announcements. Both come from Colophon Foundry, which is why they sit together so comfortably. DM Serif Display is a high-contrast transitional face shaped for super-sized poster settings, and DM Sans is a low-contrast geometric sans intended for…0
  9. 9Alegreya and Alegreya SansAlegreya and Alegreya SansBest for: family cookbooks, zines and booklets with many pages. Alegreya was originally intended for literature, with a lively rhythm that makes long reading easy, and it was chosen as one of 53 Fonts of the Decade at the ATypI Letter2 competition in 2011. Alegreya Sans follows the same humanist…0
  10. 10Fredoka and NunitoFredoka and NunitoBest for: kids' birthday invitations, classroom handouts and preschool flyers. Fredoka is a big, round, bold font made for adding fun to headlines, and Nunito, which Vernon Adams began as a rounded-terminal sans, echoes those soft ends at reading size. The shared round terminals tie them together,…0