Typography

Our primary font for all materials is Open Sans, available for free embed and download at Google fonts.

Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. Open Sans was designed with an upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance. It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, and has excellent legibility characteristics in its letterforms.

Open Sans has several font weights:

  • Light - used for text summaries.
  • Regular - used for body text
  • Semi-bold
  • Bold - used for subheadings
  • Extra-bold - used for main headings

Decor font:

In contrast, the decor font we use - Caveat -  should be used sparingly, and preferrably after discussion with the design team. It is also a free font available at Google fonts.

Caveat is a handwriting type family designed by Pablo Impallari. It is designed for both short annotations and body text usage.

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Our logos are custom, but the co-brand logos use Rubik as a base for typing out the secondary brand names.

Co-brand logos should always be downloaded, and not typed.

Custom typograhy styles & decor

We use a red line below main, and certain subheadings.

  • Do not overdo this. We have no firm rules, but the general rule is to only use this for main headings. Sub-headings only if they relate to sections or modules.
  • The three dots, if used, should never be set in the red accent color. Ref update September 2021.
    If you want to try something else - contact the design team.

 

All Caps headings

  • Use for short headings only, and sparingly
  • Be aware of conflicts and reading issues if the sentence contains abbreviations
  • Never write texts online in all-caps: this will give a bad score for usability. Use CSS-styles, or ask for them.

Colors:

  • Body text should be set in black, or dark gray
  • Blue colors in texts only for links. 
  • Ensure good readability - check contrasts and bleed, especially for digital applications.
  • If white text is used on other background colors than the blue options, font size and weight must be increased. 
  • Digital durfaces should respect WCAG for contrast and readability. See contrast checker

Extrabold fonts:

  • Again, to be used sparingly for main headings, only if text is large.

 

If you have questions, please do not hestitate to contact the design department.

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