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Type Tip: Contrast of Weight

February 16, 2010
by John McLachlan

Type Tuesday

Contrasting two weights of a typeface can be very effective. You just need to make sure you make the contrast truly remarkable.

Below is an example where I’ve used a face called Gotham Ultra against Gotham Thin:

Example of Ultra weight font with a thin font

Below is an example of what not to do — use two weights of type that are almost the same:

Example of two fonts with "about" the same weight.

Contrast of weight with type means thinking “night and day,” “highlight and shadow.”

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