Color Palette
These colors were carefully selected for use on Evergreen’s official web pages. The Web Team strongly encourages use of the palette we’ve developed to create an integrated look and feel on all official the college’s web pages. Consistent, methodical use of color provides users of our web pages with an experience that’s intuitive, predictable and connected to Evergreen.
If you have questions about using the colors shown in your section of the Evergreen website, please contact us by email or contact Justin McDowell (Information & Media Designer) at 867-6632.
The hexadecimal code (#HEX in the key) is used by HTML documents to refer to the swatch color.
Each swatch contains several notes:
- Current usage notes describe what the swatch color is currently used for on the site, and are italicized
- Suggested usage notes describe appropriate uses for the swatch color (although there may be appropriate uses not listed on this page)
- discouraged usage notes refer to inappropriate uses of the swatch color and are bold
Key
#HEX
- current usage notes are in italic
- suggested usage notes are not italic
- discouraged usage notes are bold
Black and White
#FFFFFF
- page background
- text on dark backgrounds
- should NOT be used for page text!
#000000
- default text color
- text
- borders
- should NOT be used for ANY background! (note the eye strain reading white text off a black background)
Evergreen Home Page, v4 Templates & CMS
#46502B
- New Evergreen Green
- usage guidelines in development
#7C1300
- page header: text
- table header background
- header background or text
- should NOT be used as page background OR as background for large elements!
#B9DAE8
- backgrounds: pale blue
- "what's new" background
- should NOT be used as text color OR as background for large elements!
#996600
- "tabs" background
- home page main tabs background
- usage guidelines in development