24 of the Best Canva Font Pairings to Uplevel Your Brand
You find a Canva font you love. It’s free! You can’t wait to use it! But you might be wondering…
What are Canva fonts that go together?
Whether to do sans serif or serif, slab or cursive. The options are seemingly endless.
Until today.
In this post, I’ve picked all my favorite Canva fonts from my top-read Canva Font Guides and have paired them up with their (font) match made in heaven. I’m bringing you 24 swoon-worthy combos that are sure to help you find inspiration or uplevel your brand in Canva.
Fun fact: it takes our eyes 1/10th of a second to make a judgement so I’m going to share the full comparison images with the font names written out under them for faster copying and pasting. Let’s dive in!
Montserrat and Open Sans
Poppins and Lora
Playfair Display and Oswald
Bodoni FLF and Raleway
Alata and Cardo
Black Mango and Garet Book
Volkhorn Semibold and Poppins
Josefin Sans and Source Sans Pro
Oswald and EB Garamond
Tan Mon Cherie and Open Sans
Merriweather and Raleway
Libre Baskerville and Montserrat Classic
Cormorant Garamond and Muli Regular
Athachantr Semibold and Noto Sans
Helveticish and Courier Prime
Kulachat HC and Ovo
Safira March and Libre Baskerville
Quicksand and Source Sans Pro
Roboto Slab and Roboto
Roca Two and Garet
DM Serif Display and DM Sans
The Seasons Light
Garet Book and Hero
Playfair Display Black and Lato (example shows Playfair Display italicized)
What makes a good font pairing?
From a visual point of view, a good type pairing will add visual contrast to the design. From a utilitarian point of view, a good font pairing should be legible and flexible.
That’s why the general rule of thumb it’s okay for type pairings to be a bit, well, boring.
The best sans serif and serif font pairings tend to be a combination of a display font and a supporting font for body text. The body text’s main goal is to be readable, which is why you typically see sans serif and serif, not script or ornamental fonts.
When in doubt
The good news is that some sans serifs in Canva are a bit like a good pair of blue jeans and go with just about everything! Here are a few of my go-to options:
Garet
Lato
Montserrat
Open Sans
Poppins
Raleway
Source Sans Pro
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Conclusion: 24 of the Best Free Canva Font Pairings
I hope this list of my Canva font picks saves you time and helps beautify your next Canva graphic design project. If you’re looking for more Canva font inspiration, check out my other Canva font guides:
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