Paired: Figma plugin
Font pairing without the rabbit hole
Raleway & Merriweather
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen jugs.
Chonburi & Domine
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen jugs.
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Overview
Paired is a Figma plugin that takes designers from a blank canvas to a usable font pairing in one click. I owned it end to end: problem framing, product decisions, design, and build.
- Tools
- Figma, Cursor
- Team
- Solo project
- Year
- 2025
- Status
- Live plugin
Context
Font pairing shouldn't take hours
Existing tools like Fontjoy and Fontpair optimize for completeness, not speed. I wanted a tool that helped designers go from zero ideas to font pairings fast.
Research + strategy
Finding the real problem
Design communities showed designers losing whole afternoons cycling through combinations and second-guessing themselves. The problem wasn't too few options. It was too many.
This validation shaped the plugin's core philosophy: good enough to get moving.
Development
From concept to working plugin
Figma’s API only returns font names, so I classified fonts myself using curated Google Fonts lists. Rule-based pairing then builds Editorial, Clean, and Classy combinations from each user’s installed fonts, with caching to keep switching fast.
Final plugin
Fast font pairing in Figma
Paired combines exploration with recommended pairings, reducing friction and decision fatigue by adding fonts to the Figma canvas with a single click.
Reflection
Designing with AI as a partner
Cursor handled implementation and debugging, which freed my time for the product calls AI can't make, like what "good enough" looks like. My front-end background let me spot when its suggestions broke the pairing logic and steer it back. The result was a faster build without giving up control of how the plugin works.
Want to hear more about Paired?
Ask me how I found the real problem and used AI as a partner to go from concept to a live plugin.