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Font Pairings for Cafés

Font Pairings for Cafés: 6 font pairs picked by Font Brainy and Boon, 5 of 12 fonts free for commercial use. Set for Espresso & cardamom buns from 7am; Oat lattes & 3 kinds of toast; Coffee & cake since 1962 and more.

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Butterbloom: Casserole and Instrument SerifLittle Fern: Lumios Marker and Mr GabeTEALHOUSE: Bodega Serif and Oleo ScriptPip & Plum: Hamilton and RadleyHoneycrumb: Gambado and SatisfyMIREILLE: Sinete and Grand HotelSlide 8
The fonts

6 pairs, 12 fonts, 5 free for commercial use

  1. Butterbloom

    Slide 2

    Espresso & cardamom buns from 7am

  2. Little Fern

    Slide 3

    Oat lattes & 3 kinds of toast

  3. TEALHOUSE

    Slide 4

    Coffee & cake since 1962

  4. Pip & Plum

    Slide 5

    Gelato, 24 flavours, till 11pm

  5. Honeycrumb

    Slide 6

    Croissants out of the oven at 8

  6. MIREILLE

    Slide 7

    Café crème & tarte tatin, 8 to 6

How to use them

Butterbloom

Set the headline in Casserole, a display by James Edmondson, and the text under it in Instrument Serif, a serif by Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Jordan Egstad.

A display over a serif keeps the two roles apart by shape, so the pair still reads clearly at small sizes.

Little Fern

Set the headline in Lumios Marker, a script by Elena Genova, and the text under it in Mr Gabe, a serif by Andrea Leksen.

A script over a serif keeps the two roles apart by shape, so the pair still reads clearly at small sizes.

TEALHOUSE

Set the headline in Bodega Serif, a serif by Greg Thompson, and the text under it in Oleo Script, a display by soytutype fonts.

A serif over a display keeps the two roles apart by shape, so the pair still reads clearly at small sizes.

Pip & Plum

Set the headline in Hamilton, a typeface, and the text under it in Radley, a serif by Vernon Adams.

A typeface over a serif keeps the two roles apart by shape, so the pair still reads clearly at small sizes.

Honeycrumb

Set the headline in Gambado, a serif by Nick Shinn, and the text under it in Satisfy, a handwriting by Sideshow.

A serif over a handwriting keeps the two roles apart by shape, so the pair still reads clearly at small sizes.

MIREILLE

Set the headline in Sinete, a serif by Natanael Gama, and the text under it in Grand Hotel, a handwriting by Astigmatic.

A serif over a handwriting keeps the two roles apart by shape, so the pair still reads clearly at small sizes.

The licences

  • Casserole is on Adobe Fonts. A Creative Cloud plan covers it for commercial work while you are subscribed; activate it from Adobe Fonts rather than installing a copy.
  • Instrument Serif is free for commercial use (SIL Open Font License 1.1): client work, logos and products included.
  • Lumios Marker is on Adobe Fonts. A Creative Cloud plan covers it for commercial work while you are subscribed; activate it from Adobe Fonts rather than installing a copy.
  • Mr Gabe is on Adobe Fonts. A Creative Cloud plan covers it for commercial work while you are subscribed; activate it from Adobe Fonts rather than installing a copy.
  • Bodega Serif is on Adobe Fonts. A Creative Cloud plan covers it for commercial work while you are subscribed; activate it from Adobe Fonts rather than installing a copy.
  • Oleo Script is free for commercial use (SIL Open Font License 1.1): client work, logos and products included.
  • Hamilton comes with Envato Elements. Download it while subscribed and register the project it is for, which is what licenses that use.
  • Radley is free for commercial use (SIL Open Font License 1.1): client work, logos and products included.
  • Gambado is on Adobe Fonts. A Creative Cloud plan covers it for commercial work while you are subscribed; activate it from Adobe Fonts rather than installing a copy.
  • Satisfy is free for commercial use (Apache License 2.0): client work, logos and products included.
  • Sinete is on Adobe Fonts. A Creative Cloud plan covers it for commercial work while you are subscribed; activate it from Adobe Fonts rather than installing a copy.
  • Grand Hotel is free for commercial use (SIL Open Font License 1.1): client work, logos and products included.

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5 of 12 are free for commercial use. The rest come with Adobe Fonts or Envato Elements, and Boon shows you the way to each, with its licence.

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