Specimens

Live specimens of every role in the scale.

Everything below is set in the live webfonts, not exported as images. If a specimen looks wrong on your machine, the font failed to load — and that is worth knowing.

HeroClash Display 600 · one per site
Build in public
DisplayPoppins 600 · one per page
Systems beat willpower
Heading 1Poppins 600
What actually shipped this month
Heading 2Poppins 600
The part nobody posts about
EyebrowManrope 700 · 0.2em tracking · uppercase
Field notes
BodyManrope 400 · 1.7 line height
Most of the work is invisible. You write the thing, you ship the thing, and the only proof it happened is that something is slightly easier next week than it was last week.
Italic phrasePlayfair Display 400 italic · inside a heading, never alone
with intention
MonoJetBrains Mono 400 · numbers and instrument data
#d7fd64 · 13.37:1 · 400ms

Mixing the italic in

The italic phrase is set inline inside a Poppins heading, at the same size, so the two faces share a baseline. It reads as emphasis, not as a second headline.

Ship the work, then talk about it