86% MATCH

Cormorant × DM Sans

serif  +  sans-serif

Cormorant's elegant high-contrast display serif over DM Sans's clean geometric body creates a refined modern-luxe hierarchy — the delicate serif supplies the drama while DM Sans keeps the text contemporary and legible.

Headings + Body Google Fonts Free
Open in Studio Copy CSS
Match scores

How Cormorant and DM Sans score across four checks — class contrast, role clarity, x-height harmony and mood affinity. Higher is better.

COMPOSITE MATCH
86 /100
Strong match
Class contrast 92
Role clarity 88
X-height harmony 78
Mood affinity 82
WHY IT WORKS
Structure meets readability

Cormorant's elegant high-contrast display serif over DM Sans's clean geometric body creates a refined modern-luxe hierarchy — the delicate serif supplies the drama while DM Sans keeps the text contemporary and legible.

Where it shines

Luxury, fashion and design-led sites wanting an elegant headline over a clean modern body.

Where to be careful

Cormorant's thin strokes and small x-height need size — set headings large so they don't look frail beside DM Sans.

THE TYPEFACES
Meet the pair
Ag HEADING
Cormorant
serif · Christian Thalmann (Catharsis Fonts) · 2015
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WEIGHTS
Light Regular Medium SemiBold Bold
BEST FOR Headlines, labels, UI
Ag BODY
DM Sans
sans-serif · Colophon Foundry (Jonny Pinhorn) · 2014
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 & ?!
WEIGHTS
Thin ExtraLight Light Regular Medium SemiBold
BEST FOR Body text, quotes, long reads
GET THE PAIR
Drop it into your project

Add the fonts, then two rules — Cormorant for headings, DM Sans for everything you read.

index.html
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant:wght@500;700&family=DM+Sans:wght@400;500&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
styles.css
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: "Cormorant", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: -0.01em;
}

body, p {
  font-family: "DM Sans", serif;
  font-weight: 400;
  line-height: 1.7;
}
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