RANK #02 86% MATCH

League Spartan × Lora

sans-serif  +  serif

League Spartan's bold geometric headlines over Lora's warm literary body pair strong display with a comfortable reading face — the impactful sans leads while Lora carries warm, balanced text, the sans/serif contrast givi...

Headings + Body Google Fonts Free
Match scores

How League Spartan and Lora 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 90
Role clarity 88
X-height harmony 80
Mood affinity 82
WHY IT WORKS
Structure meets readability

League Spartan's bold geometric headlines over Lora's warm literary body pair strong display with a comfortable reading face — the impactful sans leads while Lora carries warm, balanced text, the sans/serif contrast giving clean hierarchy.

Where it shines

Blogs, editorial and brand sites wanting bold headlines over a warm serif body.

Where to be careful

Keep headlines short and confident so League Spartan's weight leads Lora's even body.

THE TYPEFACES
Meet the pair
Ag HEADING
sans-serif · Micah Rich, Tyler Finck (The League of Moveable Type) · 2014
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 & ?!
WEIGHTS
Thin ExtraLight Light Regular Medium SemiBold
BEST FOR Headlines, labels, UI
Ag BODY
serif · Cyreal (Olga Karpushina, Alexei Vanyashin) · 2011
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 & ?!
WEIGHTS
Regular Medium SemiBold Bold
BEST FOR Body text, quotes, long reads
GET THE PAIR
Drop it into your project

Add the fonts, then two rules — League Spartan for headings, Lora for everything you read.

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

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