: Font pairing for Caslon I'm tinkering with a small booklet that contains an ancient Buddhist sutta text and modern commentary, interweaved in a form of reading monologue: some sutta text, some

@Eichhorn212

Try Lato www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/lato



Or Carto Gothic



Or District Pro Thin philsfonts.com/dl/district_thin_pro.zip


Or Lane moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lab/k_m.htm

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@Murphy569

One of the problems with Caslon is that it's very old-fashioned. That is obviously what has attracted you to using it, but its age and the style of the time is that the tracking is naturally quite wide:



When trying to get a sans to go with that, which is a good idea, you need to consider the letter-shapes (like the high cross-bar on e and the upward slope of the bowl of a and perhaps the little tail of u):



But you also need to consider x-height (this sans is too great) and although the overall width here is similar, each letter is wider and natural tracking is reduced. It may be possible to use a font like this — this is Rosemary Samuels — and tweak its metrics so that the letters are slightly narrower and they are spaced a little further apart.

Pehaps something like Linotype Projekt would do, although this doesn't appear to come in a lighter weight than this, which may need a heavier version of Caslon.



On the other hand, if you can discount Caslon, there are a number of families which are available in both serif and sans form: those are bound to match. These are a couple of my favourites:

Scala:




Calluna:




All images from MyFonts.com

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