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ESM Style Guide

While there is no official style manual for the ESM Department, we have adopted certain conventions to maintain a consistent image for public-facing documents and marketing collateral.

Penn State Mark

Colors

ESM Print

  • Penn State Mark uses Pantone Matching System 287 for shield, black for Lettering.
  • For four-color process colors, use RGB color space. Use 0-102-255 and 0-0-153 for PMS 285 and 287, respectively.

Web

ESM

  • Use RGB 8 bit HEX #2461AA for blue text headings.
  • Use RGB 8 bit HEX #3366CC for hyperlinks, #6699CC for visited links and black for hover.
  • Use RGB 8 bit HEX #EEEEEE for sidebars and callout boxes.

PSU

  • Use RGB 8 bit HEX #0066FF for PMS 285 blue and #000099 for PMS 287 Blue.
  • Use RGB 8 bit HEX #666666 for PMS 424 for dark gray.

Typefaces

Print

  • Adobe Myriad Pro - preferred sans-serif

Use for department name and headings on printed matter. For web pages, use as a graphic only.

  • Adobe Garamond Pro - preferred serif

Use for body text of printed matter and as a graphic on web pages.

Web

  • Arial - preferred sans-serif

For font-family list, use tag “font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;”

  • The ESM web site uses only sans-serif typefaces, however, for laboratory or personal pages, Times New Roman and Georgia are preferred. Use tag: “font-family: Times New Roman, Georgia, Times, serif;”

Web Site Markup Language

  • Use strict XHTML 1.0 transitional or strict, where possible
  • ESM style sheet is /css/esm.css
  • Sample header:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>ESM Courses and Curriculum</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link href="/css/esm.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css" media="print">@import '/css/esmprint.css';</style>
</head>
esm_style_guide.txt · Last modified: 2014/01/28 18:17 by 127.0.0.1

 
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