What fonts pair with Bricolage Grotesque?

Bricolage Grotesque works well alongside Fraunces for lifestyle and wellness brands where you need display typography that holds up against body content. The library has other curated combinations if you want to explore further.

Is Fraunces good for body text?

Yes. Fraunces is designed for sustained reading and pairs cleanly with Bricolage Grotesque as the heading face. You can preview Fraunces with your own text to confirm it fits the project.

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Q: Where does the Bricolage Grotesque and Fraunces pairing work best?

This pairing fits lifestyle and wellness brands, independent magazines, modern hospitality. Bricolage Grotesque is a contemporary grotesque with subtle quirks that suggest craft; Fraunces is a flexible display serif with strong character. See the use cases above for specific guidance on how to deploy Bricolage Grotesque and Fraunces together.

Two of the most expressive faces on Google Fonts. Bricolage for confident headlines, Fraunces for body that still has personality. A pairing for modern lifestyle brands.

Spring quarterly.From the editor

Living a little better.

Asmall magazine of features, photographs, and conversations about everyday things made well. We publish four times a year on uncoated paper, with a single advertiser per issue, who buys the back page or no page. The pairing carries every feature, every caption, every contributor's note.

By the editor

Slow.

Set in Bricolage Grotesque, with body in Fraunces.

Each issue includes a feature on a place, a profile of a maker, an essay on a question, a portfolio of photographs, and a closing recipe. The format has not changed since the founding issue. The contributors do change, season to season, but slowly.

“A lifestyle magazine that does not reach for the obvious is the only kind worth keeping.”

From the masthead

Contributors

Who wrote this issue

A short essay on slow food from a cookbook author, a portfolio from a documentary photographer, a profile of an independent paper maker, and a closing piece by the founding editor on what changes when the magazine reaches its tenth anniversary.

Spring number. Contributors.

1,247

subscribers this week

$42.10

average order value

98.6%

on-time delivery

Numerals matter. Bricolage Grotesque’s figures sit cleanly alongside Fraunces in tabular contexts and reading text both. You can use them in dashboards, annual reports, and pricing tables without retreating to a separate face.

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Built to last

A modern goods brand built on quality materials, considered design, and the kind of restraint that earns its place on the shelf.

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The pairing, in detail

A side-by-side study of Bricolage Grotesque and Fraunces.

Two fonts, line by line. Designer, foundry, year, classification, weights, and the background that explains why they read together the way they do. The Bricolage Grotesque font pairing with Fraunces is one of the curated combinations on this site, drawn from a library of over two hundred Google Fonts.

Bricolage Grotesque

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Designer: Mathieu Triay
Foundry: Not on record
Released: 2023
Origin: Not on record
Category: Display
Classification: Editorial display sans
Weights: 7 weights
Styles: Not on record
Background: A variable display grotesque designed by Mathieu Triay for editorial use.
License: SIL Open Font License

Fraunces

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Designer: Phaedra Charles & Flavia Zimbardi
Foundry: Not on record
Released: 2020
Origin: Not on record
Category: Serif
Classification: Display serif (variable)
Weights: 9 weights plus italic
Styles: Not on record
Background: An old-style flare serif inspired by Cooper, with a bold display axis.
License: SIL Open Font License

On a finished product

Bricolage Grotesque and Fraunces on a business card.

A real-world specimen of the pairing in print. The wordmark uses Bricolage Grotesque for its display character; the contact details use Fraunces for reading scale.

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Why this pairing works

Bricolage Grotesque is a contemporary grotesque with subtle quirks that suggest craft; Fraunces is a flexible display serif with strong character. The pairing reads as lifestyle-magazine modern - distinctive headline voice supported by friendly interface typography.

If you want to dig deeper into how to combine type, the best Google Fonts guide and the typography rules page cover the principles in detail. Both Bricolage Grotesque and Fraunces are free Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.

Best uses for Bricolage Grotesque and Fraunces

Where this pairing actually ships in real design work:

Lifestyle and wellness brands Fraunces for the brand voice, Bricolage Grotesque for product copy.
Independent magazines Fraunces for feature heads, Bricolage Grotesque for body.
Modern hospitality Fraunces for the venue name, Bricolage Grotesque for menus.
Boutique e-commerce Fraunces for category names, Bricolage Grotesque for product details.
Personal brand sites Fraunces for the headline, Bricolage Grotesque for body.

Want to see this pairing on a real product? Apply it to business cards with Bricolage Grotesque for the name and Fraunces for the role and contact, or test it on custom stickers for brand applications.

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