RANK #05 85% MATCH

Raleway × Lora

sans-serif  +  serif

Raleway's elegant geometric headlines over Lora's warm, literary serif body pair refined modern display with a comfortable reading face — the stylish sans leads while Lora carries warm, balanced text, the sans/serif cont...

Headings + Body Google Fonts Free
Match scores

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

COMPOSITE MATCH
85 /100
Strong match
Class contrast 90
Role clarity 86
X-height harmony 80
Mood affinity 82
WHY IT WORKS
Structure meets readability

Raleway's elegant geometric headlines over Lora's warm, literary serif body pair refined modern display with a comfortable reading face — the stylish sans leads while Lora carries warm, balanced text, the sans/serif contrast giving clean hierarchy.

Where it shines

Blogs, portfolios and editorial sites wanting an elegant headline over a warm serif body.

Where to be careful

Head with a heavier Raleway weight so the delicate caps lead Lora's even body.

THE TYPEFACES
Meet the pair
Ag HEADING
sans-serif · Matt McInerney, Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida · 2010
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 — Raleway 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=Raleway:wght@500;700&family=Lora:wght@400;500&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
styles.css
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: "Raleway", 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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