Fonts that go with Big Shoulders
Of the 3,701 home pages that load Big Shoulders, 14% also load Roboto and 9.6% Inter. Big Shoulders meets 24 fonts on 50 sites or more. Weighed against how common each font is, IBM Plex Mono comes with it most: on 129 sites, where chance would give 9.9.
Fonts on the same home page, not which one sets the headings · HTTP Archive , 1 September 2026
01 / Set together
How the pairs look
Each font drawn from its own outlines, one as a heading and the other as text, then the other way round: the crawl does not say which sets the headings.
Big Shoulders + Roboto
534 sites · 0.7× chance
Heading · Big Shoulders
Big ShouldersText · Roboto
Heading · Roboto
RobotoText · Big Shoulders
Big Shoulders + IBM Plex Mono
129 sites · 13× chance
Heading · Big Shoulders
Big ShouldersText · IBM Plex Mono
Heading · IBM Plex Mono
IBM Plex MonoText · Big Shoulders
Big Shoulders + JetBrains Mono
127 sites · 6.8× chance
Heading · Big Shoulders
Big ShouldersText · JetBrains Mono
Heading · JetBrains Mono
JetBrains MonoText · Big Shoulders
02 / Most often
Used most with Big Shoulders
The share of its 3,701 home pages that load each font too, and how many times as often as chance would have it: 1× is chance.
- Roboto14%534 sites · 0.7× chance
- Inter9.6%354 sites · 0.9× chance
- Open Sans8%297 sites · 0.4× chance
- Poppins7.1%262 sites · 0.6× chance
- Montserrat6.8%253 sites · 0.5× chance
- Chivo4.9%180 sites · 55× chance
- Work Sans3.9%146 sites · 3.2× chance
- IBM Plex Mono3.5%129 sites · 13× chance
- JetBrains Mono3.4%127 sites · 6.8× chance
03 / Beyond chance
Used with it beyond chance
Weighed against how common each font is: the sites that load both, against those that would if every site picked its fonts at random, each as often as sites use it. From 50 sites, and not one theme copied.
- IBM Plex Mono13×129 sites, where chance gives 9.9
- JetBrains Mono6.8×127 sites, where chance gives 19
- Red Hat Display5.9×71 sites, where chance gives 12
- Archivo4.3×101 sites, where chance gives 23
- IBM Plex Sans4.1×91 sites, where chance gives 22
- Work Sans3.2×146 sites, where chance gives 46
- Barlow Condensed2.8×51 sites, where chance gives 18
- Space Grotesk2.4×50 sites, where chance gives 21
- Barlow2.4×110 sites, where chance gives 47
04 / Questions
Pairing Big Shoulders
Answered from HTTP Archive’s crawl of 1 September 2026 and each font’s licence
What font goes with Big Shoulders?
On the 3,701 home pages that load Big Shoulders (HTTP Archive, September 2026), the fonts loaded most often with it are Roboto (534 sites, 14% of them), Inter (354) and Open Sans (297). They are on the same page: the data does not say which one sets the headings.
What fonts pair well with Big Shoulders?
Weighed against how common each font is, sites choose IBM Plex Mono with Big Shoulders most: 13× as often as chance would have it, on 129 sites where chance gives 9.9. Then JetBrains Mono (6.8×) and Red Hat Display (5.9×).
Can I use Big Shoulders and IBM Plex Mono together for free?
Yes: both are free, commercial work included. Big Shoulders and IBM Plex Mono are both under the SIL Open Font License. Each font’s page says what its licence allows.