I assumed that anyone who read this article should know Google Fonts already. This article will talk about 5 great combinations of top 5 fonts (at the date this article posted) for your inspiration and/or you next design/website project.

Let’s talk about the first one.

1) Rubik & Roboto

Roboto has a dual nature. It has a mechanical skeleton and the forms are largely geometric. At the same time, the font features friendly and open curves. Roboto is great at readability.

You might be familiar with this typeface when using an android device.

Rubik is a sans-serif font family with slightly rounded corners designed by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer at Hubert & Fischer as part of the Chrome Cube Lab project. Rubik Black is great for Headline.

2) Raleway & Open Sans

Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the complete 897 character set, which includes the standard ISO Latin 1, Latin CE, Greek and Cyrillic character sets. Open Sans was designed with an upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance. It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, and has excellent legibility characteristics in its letterforms. Open Sans is great for readability.

Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface family intended for headings and other large size usage. Initially designed by Matt McInerney as a single thin weight, it was expanded into a 9 weight family by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida in 2012 and iKerned by Igino Marini. Uppercase raleway is great for headline.

3) Playfair Display & Lato

Lato is a sans serif typeface family started in the summer of 2010 by Warsaw-based designer Łukasz Dziedzic (“Lato” means “Summer” in Polish). In December 2010 the Lato family was published under the Open Font License by his foundry tyPoland, with support from Google.

Playfair is a transitional design. From the time of enlightenment in the late 18th century, the broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens. This influenced typographical letterforms to become increasingly detached from the written ones. Developments in printing technology, ink, and paper making, made it possible to print letterforms of high contrast and delicate hairlines.

4) Cardo & Slabo 27px

The Slabo project is led by Tiro Typeworks, a type design foundry based in Canada. To contribute, see Slabo on GitHub.

Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. It also works well for general typesetting in situations where a high-quality Old Style font is appropriate. Its large character set supports many modern languages as well as those needed by scholars. Cardo also contains features that are required for high-quality typography such as ligatures, text figures (also known as old style numerals), true small capitals and a variety of punctuation and space characters.

5) Oswald & Eczar

Oswald is a reworking of the classic style historically represented by the ‘Alternate Gothic’ sans serif typefaces. The characters of Oswald were initially re-drawn and reformed to better fit the pixel grid of standard digital screens. Oswald is designed to be used freely across the internet by web browsers on desktop computers, laptops and mobile devices.

Eczar is designed by Vaibhav Singh, produced by David Březina, and published by Rosetta Type Foundry. It began as a student project in 2010 during Vaibhav’s MA Typeface Design studies at the University of Reading (UK). Eczar was designed to bring liveliness and vigor to multi-script typesetting in Latin and Devanagari, and providing an alternative to existing designs by imparting a strong mix of personality and performance at both text and display sizes. The display qualities of the design intensify in the heavier weights, and the heaviest is best suited for headline and display purposes.