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Read controls typography: which fonts your app uses and how their sizes relate to each other. Instead of picking a font family and a type scale separately, you choose a personality and Archie maps it to a pairing that already works.

Font feel

Four presets, each previewed with a live “Aa” sample:
  • Editorial — serif or serif-adjacent headings, built for long-form reading and a considered, print-influenced tone.
  • Modern — clean geometric or humanist sans, the default for most SaaS products.
  • Expressive — more distinctive display type, for brands that want typography to carry personality.
  • Technical — precise, often monospace-influenced, suited to developer tools and data-dense products.
Read panel showing the four Font feel presets, each previewed with a live Aa sample Picking a font feel resets any custom font families you set below it — see Advanced editing.

Advanced editing

Click Edit font families & type scale to set specific font families and the type scale directly, instead of using a Font feel preset. Use this when you have a specific typeface in mind, or need a size relationship the presets do not cover.

FAQ

Yes — use Edit font families & type scale to set any font family directly.
They’re independent. Read sets font family and the type scale; Feel sets spacing and padding around that type.