Headline Newsreader Regular + Italic
Aa
The beauty mark of a place.
Roman, sentence case · Line height 110–120% · Letter spacing +2% on headlines, +5% on house names and footers · Small caps only, +24% · Italic for one word at most
Label · Interface Albert Sans SemiBold
Aa
Artful Homes
Uppercase · Letter spacing 20–30% · Navigation, buttons, data
Body Albert Sans Regular
Aa
Morning light entering a room, a conversation around a table, a view across the landscape, the comfort of feeling welcome.
Line height 150–160% · Letter spacing 0% · Running text, tables, prices, menus, forms
Montserrat is reserved for the logo, drawn in outlines. Never type the logo, and never use Montserrat for text. Serif speaks, sans informs: never set long running text in Newsreader.
Reference · Iconic.house Internal
What makes their type and colour work
Read, not copied. Their system, measured on the live site, and what Pinta House can learn from it with its own fonts and palette.
1 · The serif speaks
A light serif carries almost everything: titles, places, descriptions. Roman and italic mix inside one line (“Life. Together.”), which gives warmth without decoration.
2 · The sans only serves
A plain grotesque at 12 px, uppercase, almost no tracking, for menus and buttons. A mono for numbers and places. Small, quiet, functional.
3 · One ground, two inks
A warm sand ground everywhere, black for primary text, a muted taupe for secondary text. No brand colour on the page; colour comes from photography.
What we could take, with our own tools
Roman + italic Newsreader in one headline, for editorial moments (claim, hero lines). “Natural Joy” could live this way.
Smaller, tighter labels: 11–12 px, tracking 0.04–0.08em instead of 0.3em.
A second ink for secondary text (Lua at 65%), so hierarchy comes from tone, not size.
Let photography bring the colour; keep Tangerina for the one action. Our difference stays: greens as grounds, Miguel’s colour sense, the pinta.
Decision for you: keep A, move to B, or B for editorial pages and A for the brand book.