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Red Hat Display + Red Hat Text font pairing

Red Hat Display and Red Hat Text are a sans-serif pairing with a harmonious, low-contrast match. Red Hat Display for headings, Red Hat Text for body text. Red Hat's type system: Display for impact, Text for readability. Designed for enterprise open-source at scale. Great for enterprise products, open-source projects, and technical platforms.

RED HAT DISPLAY + RED HAT TEXT

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Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, as well as modifying the space between pairs of letters.

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The quiet power of good type.

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Type does its work quietly. Before anyone reads a word, the shapes on the page have already set a tone, calm or loud, plain or dressed up. A good pairing gives a headline its voice and lets the body text settle into a calm, effortless reading rhythm.

The reader never notices the type, only the ease of it.

Choose the wrong pair and the seams show. The eye snags, the tone wobbles, and trust leaks away one sentence at a time. Most failures are not one loud mistake, but a hundred quiet ones hiding in plain sight.

The craft is to be felt, not seen. When a headline and its text agree, the page feels effortless, and the reader stays. That agreement is the whole game — an act of respect for the reader’s attention, paid in advance and never mentioned again.

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USE THIS PAIR

# npm
npm install @fontsource/red-hat-display @fontsource/red-hat-text

# yarn
yarn add @fontsource/red-hat-display @fontsource/red-hat-text

# pnpm
pnpm add @fontsource/red-hat-display @fontsource/red-hat-text

# Then import in your app entry point:
import '@fontsource/red-hat-display';
import '@fontsource/red-hat-text';

# CSS usage:
# h1, h2, h3 { font-family: 'Red Hat Display', sans-serif; }
# body { font-family: 'Red Hat Text', sans-serif; }

RECOMMENDED WEIGHTS · RED HAT DISPLAY

Regular 400The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Bold 700The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Black 900The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

RED HAT TEXT

Regular 400The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Medium 500The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Bold 700The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

CHARACTER SET · RED HAT DISPLAY

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ABOUT

Red Hat Display

The display face of Red Hat's type system, designed by MCKL. Its wide proportions and clear letterforms reflect Red Hat's commitment to open, accessible design at large sizes.

MCKL, 2019

sans-serif · 14 styles

Variable · Italic

Recommended: 400, 700, 900

Available: 300900

→ Google Fonts ↗

Red Hat Text

The text companion to Red Hat Display, optimized for smaller sizes and longer reading. Shares DNA with its display sibling but with adjusted proportions for body text clarity.

MCKL, 2019

sans-serif · 10 styles

Variable · Italic

Recommended: 400, 500, 700

Available: 300700

→ Google Fonts ↗

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