FontDiscovery 🖼️ 51: Holiday Font Pairing Style Guide🎄
I'm Hua, a designer and bootstrapping founder building Typogram, a brand design tool. As part of running Typogram, I create this digestible weekly guide with fonts, colors, and design ideas to help founders, creators, and makers step up their game in marketing and get creative!
Hi Everyone👋
I hope you had a wonderful weekend- Happy holiday week!
Instead of having our regular format this week, I created a special holiday edition — a font pairing style guide featuring fonts from FontDiscovery and holiday cocktail recipes 😌🍸. There are six different looks and feels of font pairing. I hope this can be a resource for your future projects. You can also make cocktails for your holiday parties! 🍾🥂
This will be our final newsletter edition for 2021. I will be on vacation for the rest of December. I hope you have a fantastic holiday season and a happy New Year.🎄🎊
See you in the first week of January 2022! 🍰 🎉
Best,
Hua
2021 Holiday Font Pairing Style Guide🎁
Classic & Traditional Font Pairing Palette
Fonts in Use
Cormorant Garamond & Noto Sans
- Logo Font: Cormorant Garamond Bold
- Display Font: Cormorant Garamond
- Body Font: Noto Sans
We are using Cormorant Garamond and Noto Sans to create this font pairing palette. Mulled Wine is a classy, traditional drink that dates back to the 2nd century. Romans heated wine during the winter to keep themselves warm (source). The classy tone of Cormorant Garamond and Noto Sans with its calligraphic influence.
Img: Classic font pairing palette featuring Cormorant Garamond & Noto Sans
How to Make This Drink
- Combine ingredients. Add wine, brandy, orange slices, cloves, cinnamon, star anise, and 2 tablespoons sweetener to a large saucepan.
- Stir briefly to combine.
- Cook the mulled wine on medium-high heat until it just barely reaches a simmer. Reduce heat to low, cover, and let the wine simmer for at least 15 minutes or up to 3 hours.
- Using a fine-mesh strainer, remove and discard the orange slices, cloves, cinnamon sticks, and star anise. Give the mulled wine a taste, and stir in extra sweetener if needed.
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Crafty & Fun Font Pairing Palette
Fonts in Use
- Logo Font: Oregano Italic
- Display Font: Oregano
- Body Font: Roboto
Oregano and Roboto are used to create this crafty and fun font pairing palette. Holiday Punch is a drink full of citrusy fruity flavors. The organic, brushy feeling of Oregano matches the citrusy flavorful quality of this delicious drink. The natural, calligraphic feelings of Roboto match the brushiness of Oregano really well.
Img: Crafty & Fun font pairing palette featuring Oregano & Roboto
How to Make This Drink
- Chill all liquids. Just before serving, combine the sparkling wine or white wine, ginger ale, Cointreau, and pineapple juice in a large punch bowl.
- Top with the orange wheels, lemon wheels, raspberries or cranberries, and herbs as a garnish. Serve immediately. Bubbles dissipate after about 20 minutes, so it’s best served immediately (but still tastes great without bubbles).
Sci-fi Future Font Pairing Palette
Fonts in Use
- Logo Font: Orbitron Bold
- Display Font: Orbitron
- Body Font: Dosis
Orbitron and Dosis are used to create this font pairing palette. Galaxy Cocktail is a space-themed drink with a mysterious purple gradient. The boxy characteristic of the Orbitron along with the geometric quality of Dosis communicates a futuristic vibe that perfectly communicates the vibe of this drink.
Img: Sci-fi Future font pairing palette featuring Orbitron & Dosis
How to Make This Drink
- Chill all ingredients for 2 hours
- Add all chilled ingredients to a cocktail shaker
- Shake mixture then strain into a martini glass
Soft & Airy Font Pairing Palette
Fonts in Use
- Logo Font: Averia Libre Gruesa
- Display Font: Averia Libre Gruesa & Averia Sans Libre
- Body Font: Space Grotesque
Averia Libre Grusa, Averia Libre Sans, and Space Grotesque are used to create this font pairing palette. The uneven strokes of Averia Libre Grusa and Averia Libre Sans communicate a softness and airiness tone perfect for a refreshing drink like Winter Sea Breeze.
Img: Soft & Airy font pairing palette featuring Averia & Space Grotesque
How to Make This Drink
- Fill your glass about 3/4 full with ice. A lowball glass is a perfect size.
- Add the vodka, grapefruit juice, tonic syrup* and stir.
- Pour in the soda water and garnish with the pomegranate seeds and mint leaves.
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Warm & Nostalgic Font Pairing Palette
Fonts in Use
- Logo Font: Enriqueta SemiBold
- Display Font : Enriqueta
- Body Font: IBM Plex Sans
Enriqueta and IBM Plex Sans together create this font pairing palette. The bold strokes slab serif Enriqueta along with IBM Plex Sans gives this a warm, comforting, and nostalgic vibe, perfect for a coffee-themed holiday drink!
Img: Warm & Nostalgic font pairing palette featuring Enriquetta & IBM Plex Sans
How to Make This Drink
- Make the coffee using your favorite method.
- Add the coffee to a glass or mug, leaving about an inch at the top for the whipped cream if using. Stir in the gingerbread syrup.
- Gently float the whipped cream on top using the back of a spoon.
Cheerful Font Pairing Palette
Fonts in Use
- Logo Font: Fredoka One Regular
- Display Font: Fredoka One
- Body Font: Nunito
Gingerbread Martini is a drink full of holiday spirit. The roundness and boldness of Fredoka One along with Nunito’s rounded caps communicate a cheeriness that is perfect for this sweet, winter flavored drink.
Img: Cheerful font pairing palette featuring Fredoka One & Nunito
How to Make This Drink
- Place the sprinkles or sugar on a plate. Wet the rim of the glass, then roll the rim in the sprinkles or sugar until evenly coated.
- Place the gingerbread syrup, vodka, and half and half in a cocktail shaker. Add a handful of ice and shake until cold. Strain the drink into the prepared martini glass.
That’s a wrap for our first-ever font style book. Have a wonderful holiday!
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