# Literary serif pair — type pairing recipe

## The idea
- A soft, characterful display serif over a sturdy text serif keeps a single bookish voice from headline to footnote, with contrast coming from shape rather than category.

## Use it for
- Long-form essays and magazines
- Book and author sites
- Cultural programmes

## Avoid it when
- The page is a dense app interface
- The brand should feel technical or futuristic

## The faces
- Headings: Fraunces (@fontsource/fraunces), weights 600
- Body: Source Serif 4 (@fontsource/source-serif-4), weights 400 and 600

## Scale and rhythm
- Scale: 16px, 18px, 22px, 30px, 42px, 58px
- Heading line height: 1.1
- Body line height: 1.7

## Principles
- Keep a comfortable measure of about 60 to 70 characters per line for the body serif.
- Make the size jump between body and headings large so two serifs never look like a mistake.
- Use the heading serif for drop caps and pull quotes as well as headings.
- Keep interface bits such as buttons in the body serif at semibold; do not bring in a third face.