Style Guide

Style Guide

Find and Install Required Fonts

  • Download the Raleway font family
  • Open the ZIP file and select the Static folder
  • Double-click Raleway-Regular.ttf
  • Select Install
  • Repeat for Raleway-Italic.ttf, Raleway-Bold.ttf and Raleway-BoldItalic.ttf

If needed Download the Libre Baskerville family also; installing each of the three font styles (Regular, Italic, Bold)

Colours

colour swatch
colour swatch

Page Background, Text on dark backgrounds

  • Mint Green
  • HEX: FAFFFA
  • RGB: 250,255,250

Further Reading, Call-outs of related content (not Network Member specific), Title Blocks on dark backgrounds

  • Opal
  • HEX: B9DCD2
  • RGB: 185,220,210
  • Pantone: 566C

Incidental Highlights and Link Hover State

  • Medium Aquamarine
  • HEX: 71CC98
  • RGB: 113,204,152
  • Pantone: 346C

Call-outs of related content (Network Member Specific)

  • Brunswick Green
  • HEX: 154734
    RGB: 21,71,52
  • Pantone: 3435C

Foreground, text and border colours

  • Rich Black
  • HEX: 101820
  • RGB: 16,24,32
  • Pantone: 6C

ALSO (not shown in swatch) – Voices Accordion Header background, (content specific to individuals)

  • HEX: 6C1D45
  • RGB: 108,29,69
  • Pantone 222C

Fonts

All text is at 1.5 line-spacing

Large page Titles:

  • Libre Baskeville (Regular 400)
  • at 80px
  • in pure white with 2px rich black outline
  • FONT SOURCE: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Libre+Baskerville

Headings:

  • Segoe UI (Serif)
  • at 40px for H2 (main section headings)
  • at 36px for H3 (sub-headings)
  • Standard (microsoft) system font

Body Text

  • Raleway (Regular 400, Regular 400 Italic, Bold 700, Bold 700 Italic)
  • at 18px for main body text
  • at 16px for call-out body text
  • FONT SOURCE: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway

Saving and Sharing

To ensure documents display the same for everyone (who may or may not have the required fonts on their systems) the use of PDF is preferred. Note if working in MS Word ensure that necessary fonts are embedded in the document.

Selct File menu, Options, Save:

At the bottom, in the Preserve fidelity… section turn on the Embed Fonts in file and Embed only the characters used… options.

Word Template

In case it is helpful, here you can download the MS Word template used to create issue 1 of Rural Recall. This has styles that can be readily used to format new documents, ensuring correct fonts faces and sizes are used.

The styles included are:

100RuralYears-Title

100RuralYears-subTitle

100RuralYears-Heading

100RuralYears-subHeading

100RuralYears-Body

100RuralYears-subBody (used in text-boxes containing off-set, or aside, information; typically used with the subHeading style when a heading is required for the aside.)

100RuralYears-Caption (used to caption images)

100RuralYears-List (for bulleted or numbered lists

rural-recall-templateDownload