SiteStyleGuide

Unofficial A style guide made by SiteStyleGuide from designmuseum.org’s public web pages. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Design Museum. The real site is designmuseum.org ↗

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Unofficial style guide

Design Museumstyle guide

Design Museum’s website (designmuseum.org) sets its headings in din-pro-alternate and its body text in din-pro. Its palette is led by Deep Yellow (#E8E316), Fuchsia (#FF00FF) and Light Yellow (#ECE953), with #000000 text on #FFFFFF. Captured from the live site on 27 October 2026.

Typefaces
din-pro, din-pro-alternate, Arial
Palette
4 neutrals, 3 colours, 1 gradient
Captured
27 Oct 2026 · added by @sitestyleguide
https://designmuseum.org/ Screenshot
Screenshot of the designmuseum.org homepage on a desktop screen
Screenshot of designmuseum.org on a 1440 px desktop screen, 27 Oct 2026.

Identity & metadata

What browsers, search engines and social cards show before anyone reaches the page, from the homepage’s <head>.

Title &
description

Page title
Home - Design Museum
● 20 / 60 characters
Meta description
The Design Museum is a multifaceted museum, an ever-changing space for the public, industry and education to come together and explore new ideas. Located in London, it's the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form.
▲ 242 / 160 characters
Site name
Design Museum
og:title
Home
og:description
The Design Museum is a multifaceted museum, an ever-changing space for the public, industry and education to come together and explore new ideas. Located in London, it's the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form.
Language
en
Theme colour
#e8e315

In search results

Design Museumhttps://designmuseum.org/

Home - Design Museum

The Design Museum is a multifaceted museum, an ever-changing space for the public, industry and education to come together and explore new ideas. Located in Lond…

When shared

No og:image, so no picture

designmuseum.org

Home

The Design Museum is a multifaceted museum, an ever-changing space for the public, industry and education to …

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Colour

Read from the site’s stylesheets and weighted by where each colour is used. Names are the nearest standard colour name. Click a swatch to copy its hex code.

Contrast is against the site’s text colour (#000000) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used
  • White 44.7%
  • Black 28.5%
  • Deep Yellow 13%
  • Fuchsia 7.7%
  • Light Yellow 2.3%
  • Grey 2%
  • Off White 1.8%

By how often each colour appears in the site’s CSS, weighted by where (body, headings, buttons), not by area on the screen.

Neutrals

Text, backgrounds and structure
  • White

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 0
    On text
    21.00:1 AAA
    On white
    —

    Text, background, graphic · .menu .openings-hours a.dark, .menu .openings-hours a.featured

  • Black

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 100
    On text
    —
    On white
    21.00:1 AAA

    Text, background, border · .component .doty-form button, .menu .huge.has-childs:after

  • Grey

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 45
    On text
    6.33:1 AA
    On white
    3.32:1 AA large

    Text, background · #adopt-content-page .component.donate .component-content .progress h2, slider

  • Off White

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 15
    On text
    14.88:1 AAA
    On white
    1.41:1 Fail

    Text, background · #adopt-content-page .component-content h4.grey, #adopt .popover .move-progress

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first
  • Deep Yellow

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 2 91 9
    On text
    15.43:1 AAA
    On white
    1.36:1 Fail

    Background, theme, text · .menu, .menu .openings-hours a:focus

  • Fuchsia

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 100 0 0
    On text
    6.70:1 AA
    On white
    3.14:1 AA large

    Background · .menu .openings-hours a.featured:focus, .billboard-component .component-content .cta.featured:focus

  • Light Yellow

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 1 65 7
    On text
    16.35:1 AAA
    On white
    1.28:1 Fail

    Background · #adopt-content-page .component.donate #donate button, #adopt section#legend label:after

Gradients

  • linear-gradient(to bottom,#c4c4c4 0,#fff 100%)

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Typography

Faces from Google Fonts are shown in the real thing. Others are licensed to the site, so they show in your device’s copy if you have one, or a stand-in if not.

din-pro-alternate

Aa 400 Aa 500

din-pro

Self-hosted · weights 400, 500 · body · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400 Aa 500

din-pro-alternate

Self-hosted · weights 400, 500 · headings · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400

Arial

System font, or not loaded on this page · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 ! ? & @ % $ – ’ “ ”

Type scale

From the site’s CSS · root 15 px
Heading 1 2em · 30 px weight 400 · din-pro-alternate

Design Museum

Heading 2 25px / 36px weight 400

Home - Design Museum

Heading 3 15px weight 700

Home - Design Museum

Heading 4 22px weight 400

Home - Design Museum

Paragraph 16px / 55px weight 500 · uppercase

The Design Museum is a multifaceted museum, an ever-changing space for the public, industry and education to come together and explore new …

Small 80%

The Design Museum is a multifaceted museum, an ever-changing space for the public, industry and education to come together and explore new …

Button 2em · 30 px / 50px weight 700 · uppercase

Get started

Link 13px weight 500 · uppercase

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Sizes in use

Most common across the site
  • 30px2 rules
  • 20px5 rules
  • 18pxline 40px · 8 rules
  • 16px3 rules
  • 15px9 rules
  • 14px2 rules
  • 13px27 rules
  • 12pxline 20px · 17 rules

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Elements

The main button and link as the site’s CSS draws them, and the corner radii and shadows it uses most.

Elements

Button

Get started

#adopt-content-page .component.donate #donate button · #ECE953

Corner radius

  • 100% · 3×
  • 50% · 1×
  • 50px · 1×

Shadows

  • 2px 0 0 rgba(232,227,22,.8),-2px 0 0 rgba(232,227,22,.8)
  • 2px 0 0 rgba(255,0,255,.8),-2px 0 0 rgba(255,0,255,.8)
  • 1px 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,.8),-1px 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,.8)
  • 2px 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,.8),-2px 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,.8)

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Layout

Breakpoints from the site’s media queries and the widths its content is held to, with how often each appears.

Grid

Breakpoints

380
400
600
760
770
900
1150
1200

On a scale of 0 to 1440 px.

Content widths (max-width)

1200 px
884 px
800 px
660 px
600 px
400 px

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Notes

Plain checks on what was found. Worth fixing if you look after this site.

Notes

  • ● FineThe title is 20 characters, short enough to show in full in search results.
  • ▲ CheckThe description is 242 characters. Search results usually show about 160.
  • ▲ CheckThere is no og:image, so links shared on social media show no picture.

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Questions

Quick answers, from the same capture as the rest of this guide.

Questions

What font does Design Museum use?
Design Museum’s website uses two typefaces: din-pro (body text), self-hosted; din-pro-alternate (headings), self-hosted.
What are Design Museum’s brand colours?
The main colours on designmuseum.org are Deep Yellow (#E8E316), Fuchsia (#FF00FF), Light Yellow (#ECE953), White (#FFFFFF), Black (#000000) and Grey (#8D8D8D).
What colour is Design Museum’s text and background?
Body text is #000000 on a #FFFFFF background.
Where is Design Museum’s logo from?
The logo shown in this guide was found on designmuseum.org’s homepage. For official logo files and usage rules, check Design Museum’s own brand or press page.
Is this Design Museum’s official style guide?
No. SiteStyleGuide made it from designmuseum.org’s public web pages on 27 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with Design Museum. Members can refresh a guide after 90 days to pick up changes.

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Design tokens

Everything above as CSS variables, ready to paste into a project. Members can download the tokens as files for Figma (Tokens Studio), Style Dictionary and Tailwind.

Tokens

designmuseum-org-tokens.css

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/* designmuseum.org design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/designmuseum.org) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #000000;
  --background: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-white: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-black: #000000;
  --colour-grey: #8D8D8D;
  --colour-off-white: #D9D9D9;
  --colour-deep-yellow: #E8E316;
  --colour-fuchsia: #FF00FF;
  --colour-light-yellow: #ECE953;
  --gradient-1: linear-gradient(to bottom,#c4c4c4 0,#fff 100%);

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-body: 'din-pro', sans-serif;
  --font-headings: 'din-pro-alternate', 'din-pro', sans-serif;
  --font-other: 'Arial';

  /* Type scale */
  --text-h1: 2em;
  --text-h2: 25px;
  --leading-h2: 36px;
  --text-h3: 15px;
  --text-h4: 22px;
  --text-p: 16px;
  --leading-p: 55px;
  --text-small: 80%;
  --text-button: 2em;
  --leading-button: 50px;
  --text-a: 13px;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 100%;
  --radius-2: 50%;
  --radius-3: 50px;

  /* Layout (breakpoints can’t be used in media queries as variables; they’re here for reference) */
  --breakpoint-1: 380px;
  --breakpoint-2: 400px;
  --breakpoint-3: 600px;
  --breakpoint-4: 760px;
  --breakpoint-5: 770px;
  --breakpoint-6: 900px;
  --breakpoint-7: 1150px;
  --breakpoint-8: 1200px;
  --max-width-1: 1200px;
  --max-width-2: 884px;
  --max-width-3: 800px;
  --max-width-4: 660px;
  --max-width-5: 600px;
  --max-width-6: 400px;
}

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Captured from designmuseum.org on 27 October 2026. SiteStyleGuide isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Design Museum; this guide describes the public website for reference.