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.
Picked by Font Brainy and Boon
See the post on Instagram6 pairs, 12 fonts, 5 free for commercial use
Butterbloom
Slide 2Espresso & cardamom buns from 7am
Little Fern
Slide 3Oat lattes & 3 kinds of toast
TEALHOUSE
Slide 4Coffee & cake since 1962
Pip & Plum
Slide 5Gelato, 24 flavours, till 11pm
- Pip & Plum

Honeycrumb
Slide 6Croissants out of the oven at 8
MIREILLE
Slide 7Café 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.
Sign in free to see where to get each one
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.









