Web Guidelines: MIT Libraries

Fonts & Text Colors

Fonts

These are the fonts we use throughout our web sites:

"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"

Text and link colors

For most pages in the site, these are the defined text & link colors:

text="#333333"
link="#336699"
vlink="#000033"

Orange text is used for some navigation and headings: "#CC6600"

Emphasizing text

If you also want to use color to emphasize something, use the orange color defined above. (Do not use red).
Use this sparingly.

Don't use color alone to emphasize something (there may be issues for color blind people). Use it in combination with bold or some other way to emphasize the text.

Table colors

If you create a table for displaying information on a page, use the following colors:

Pale gray (#CCCCCC) for the header row and pale yellow (#FFFFCC) for other cells that need highlighting.

Examples:
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