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by kendalk 4475 days ago
I am working on a MVP and am going for an elegant look. I have the <p> in Georgia 22px but would like something a little less common. Georgia is a nice font but it is everywhere.

My current main fonts are:

      p { font-family: Georgia, Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", Times, "Times New Roman", serif; 
          font-size: 22px; }

      h2 { font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 
          font-size: 22px; }
Has anyone found a font combination with an elegant, "classical" look?

Edited: for spacing

2 comments

Have a look at this book:

http://practicaltypography.com/

But it says in the opening salvo, "The fastest, eas­i­est, and most vis­i­ble im­prove­ment you can make to your ty­pog­ra­phy is to ig­nore the fonts that came free with your com­put­er... and buy a pro­fes­sion­al font". Not quite "in the spirit" of the OP!
Playfair Display has a very elegant and classical look. Especially set in italics for headers. It actually pairs fairly well with Georgia. Look into Alegreya as well.