Retiring Playfair from primary use (it's become the AI-design tell). Cinzel carries the titling voice, Iowan Old Style / Georgia the editorial headline, Inter the UI, IBM Plex Mono the technical layer. The signature CTA: a teal button ringed by a slow gold sweep. Toggle the theme, top-left.
Teal says "act" (the interaction color); the gold sweep says "premium, earned." A continuous conic-gold ring, masked to a 1.6px border, on a depth-treated teal fill. Honors reduced-motion.
Cinzel is an engraved Roman capitals face. It sings in eyebrows, wordmarks, section labels, and short all-caps statements — and gets hard to read as a long sentence-case headline. Two headline treatments to compare:
Monumental, classical, campaign-like. Great for posters, section dividers, short lines — heavier to read in a paragraph-length hero.
Cinzel gives the classical signature up top; Iowan keeps the headline readable and warm, with one italic-gold accent. This is the pairing I'd carry across Website + Platform.
Different surfaces, different registers — a system with range, not a single locked look.
Cinzel eyebrow + Iowan headline. Editorial cream, gold-moving-border teal CTA. Calm, premium, classical.
Cinzel labels + Iowan question titles + Inter UI + Plex Mono. Luminous ink. CTA sweep reserved for the one primary action per screen.
Playfair lives here — quote cards, posts, thumbnails — plus Cinzel for wordmark lockups. More expressive, higher-contrast.
Cinzel + Iowan, minimal chrome (the Sovereign register). Hairlines, whitespace, one gold accent.