What font does European Union use?

European Union’s website uses one typeface: arial (headings and body text), a system font.

What are European Union’s brand colours?

The main colours on europa.eu are Slate Blue (#0E47CB), Lavender (#CFDAF5), Gold (#FFCC00), Deep Crimson (#D7003D), Light Slate Blue (#0B39A2) and Midnight Blue (#030E2E).

What colour is European Union’s text and background?

Body text is #191D26 on a #FFFFFF background.

Is this European Union’s official style guide?

No. SiteStyleGuide made it from europa.eu’s public web pages on 4 November 2026, and isn’t affiliated with European Union. Members can refresh a guide after 90 days to pick up changes.

Unofficial A style guide made by SiteStyleGuide from europa.eu’s public web pages. Not affiliated with or endorsed by European Union. The real site is europa.eu ↗

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European Unionstyle guide

European Union’s website (europa.eu) uses arial for its headings and body text. Its palette is led by Slate Blue (#0E47CB), Lavender (#CFDAF5) and Gold (#FFCC00), with #191D26 text on #FFFFFF. Captured from the live site on 4 November 2026.

Website: europa.eu
Typefaces: arial
Palette: 4 neutrals, 12 colours, 3 gradients
Captured: 4 Nov 2026 · added by @sitestyleguide

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Screenshot of the europa.eu homepage on a desktop screen — Screenshot of europa.eu on a 1440 px desktop screen, 4 Nov 2026.

Screenshot of the europa.eu homepage on a phone — On a phone, 390 px.

Identity & metadata

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

Title &
description

Page title: Language selection | European Union; ● 35 / 60 characters
Meta description: Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.; ● 152 / 160 characters
Site name: European Union
og:title: Your gateway to the EU, News, Highlights | European Union
og:description: Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.
Language: en

In search results

European Unionhttps://european-union.europa.eu/select-language?destination=/node/1

Language selection | European Union

Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.

When shared

The image European Union shares with links

europa.eu

Your gateway to the EU, News, Highlights | European Union

Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; lear…

Logo & favicons

No logo could be found on the homepage.

Logo

Favicons

3 found

256 px · SVG icon
180 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
32 px · ICO icon

Language selection | European Union

Light browser tab

Language selection | European Union

Dark browser tab

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 (#191D26) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used

Cool Near Black 29.4%
White 29.3%
Slate Blue 11.9%
Cool Off White 4.8%
Cool Dark Grey 3.8%
Lavender 3.7%
Gold 3.1%
Deep Crimson 2.6%
Light Slate Blue 2.3%
Midnight Blue 2.1%
Royal Blue 1.3%
Medium Sea Green 1.3%
Coral 1.2%
Deep Slate Blue 1.1%
Light Crimson 1%
Aqua 1%

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

Cool Near Black

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
34 24 0 85

On text
—

On white
16.87:1 AAA

Text, background, border · body, .ecl button.ecl-button--neutral:is([class*=ecl-u-])
White

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 0

On text
16.87:1 AAA

On white
—

Background, text, border · .ecl button.ecl-button--inverted:is([class*=ecl-u-]), .ecl-gallery__video-title
Cool Off White

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
4 2 0 1

On text
15.58:1 AAA

On white
1.08:1 Fail

Background, text, border · .duet-date__dialog-content button.duet-date__close, .ecl-table--zebra .ecl-table__row:nth-of-type(2n)
Cool Dark Grey

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
16 11 0 62

On text
2.26:1 Fail

On white
7.45:1 AAA

Text, border, background · .ecl-featured-item--highlight .ecl-featured-item__micro-title, .ecl-u-bg-dark-80

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first

Slate Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
93 65 0 20

On text
2.23:1 Fail

On white
7.55:1 AAA

Background, text, border · .ecl button:is([class*=ecl-u-]), .ecl-inpage-navigation__title
Lavender

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
16 11 0 4

On text
12.05:1 AAA

On white
1.40:1 Fail

Background, border, text · .ecl-u-bg-primary-20, .ecl-u-type-color-primary-20
Gold

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 20 100 0

On text
11.16:1 AAA

On white
1.51:1 Fail

Background, text, border · .ecl-button--primary.ecl-button--highlight, .ecl-button--primary.ecl-button--highlight-inverted
Deep Crimson

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 100 72 16

On text
3.18:1 AA large

On white
5.31:1 AA

Background, border, text · .ecl-u-bg-error, .ecl-u-bg-error-100
Light Slate Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
93 65 0 36

On text
1.70:1 Fail

On white
9.90:1 AAA

Background, text, graphic · .ecl-u-bg-primary-140, .ecl-u-type-color-primary-140
Midnight Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
93 70 0 82

On text
1.13:1 Fail

On white
18.98:1 AAA

Background, text, border · .ecl-featured-item--highlight .ecl-featured-item__link.ecl-link--secondary-inver, .ecl-button--primary.ecl-button--neutral
Royal Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
71 49 0 16

On text
3.46:1 AA large

On white
4.87:1 AA

Background, graphic, text · .ecl-u-bg-primary-80, .ecl-u-type-color-primary-80
Medium Sea Green

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 0 28 37

On text
5.10:1 AA

On white
3.31:1 AA large

Background, text, border · .ecl-u-bg-success, .ecl-u-bg-success-100
Coral

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 49 80 0

On text
6.78:1 AA

On white
2.49:1 Fail

Background, text, border · .ecl-u-bg-warning, .ecl-u-bg-warning-100
Deep Slate Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
93 65 0 44

On text
1.49:1 Fail

On white
11.29:1 AAA

Text, background, border · .ecl-u-bg-primary-160, .ecl-u-bg-primary-130
Light Crimson

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 100 72 6

On text
3.82:1 AA large

On white
4.42:1 AA large

Background, border, text · .ecl-u-bg-error-80, .ecl-u-type-color-error-80
Aqua

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 9 0 0

On text
11.32:1 AAA

On white
1.49:1 Fail

Background, text, border · .ecl-u-bg-accent, .ecl-u-bg-accent-100

Gradients

linear-gradient(90deg,#0b39a2,#0e47cb)
radial-gradient(circle closest-side,currentcolor 85%,transparent)
linear-gradient(90deg,#155dfc,#1447e6 50%,#010492)

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.

arial

Aa 400

arial

System font, or not loaded on this page · weights 400 · headings, body · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

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

Elements

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

Elements

Corner radius

4px · 54×
50% · 26×
8px · 13×
2px · 11×
4px 4px 0 0 · 4×
0 0 4px 4px · 4×

Shadows

0 2px 4px rgba(9,49,142,.08),0 0 10px rgba(9,49,142,.04),0 4px 5px rgba(9,49,142,.04),0 -4px 4px rgba(9,49,142,.04)
0 3px 5px rgba(9,49,142,.04),0 0 18px rgba(9,49,142,.04),0 6px 10px rgba(9,49,142,.04),0 -4px 4px rgba(9,49,142,.04)
0 0 0 2px #0e47cb
0 7px 8px rgba(9,49,142,.08),0 0 22px rgba(9,49,142,.04),0 12px 17px rgba(9,49,142,.04),0 -4px 4px rgba(9,49,142,.04)

Layout

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

Grid

Breakpoints

480

767

768

995

996

1139

1140

1368

On a scale of 0 to 1440 px.

Content widths (max-width)

950 px

823 px

800 px

750 px

680 px

480 px

Notes

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

Notes

● FineThe title is 35 characters, short enough to show in full in search results.
▲ CheckThe favicon is dark on a see-through background, so it nearly disappears on dark browser tabs.

Questions

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

Questions

What font does European Union use?: European Union’s website uses one typeface: arial (headings and body text), a system font.
What are European Union’s brand colours?: The main colours on europa.eu are Slate Blue (#0E47CB), Lavender (#CFDAF5), Gold (#FFCC00), Deep Crimson (#D7003D), Light Slate Blue (#0B39A2) and Midnight Blue (#030E2E).
What colour is European Union’s text and background?: Body text is #191D26 on a #FFFFFF background.
Is this European Union’s official style guide?: No. SiteStyleGuide made it from europa.eu’s public web pages on 4 November 2026, and isn’t affiliated with European Union. Members can refresh a guide after 90 days to pick up changes.

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

europa-eu-tokens.css

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/* europa.eu design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/europa.eu) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #191D26;
  --background: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-cool-near-black: #191D26;
  --colour-white: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-cool-off-white: #F3F6FC;
  --colour-cool-dark-grey: #515560;
  --colour-slate-blue: #0E47CB;
  --colour-lavender: #CFDAF5;
  --colour-gold: #FFCC00;
  --colour-deep-crimson: #D7003D;
  --colour-light-slate-blue: #0B39A2;
  --colour-midnight-blue: #030E2E;
  --colour-royal-blue: #3E6CD5;
  --colour-medium-sea-green: #00A174;
  --colour-coral: #FF8133;
  --colour-deep-slate-blue: #0A328E;
  --colour-light-crimson: #EF0044;
  --colour-aqua: #00E9FF;
  --gradient-1: linear-gradient(90deg,#0b39a2,#0e47cb);
  --gradient-2: radial-gradient(circle closest-side,currentcolor 85%,transparent);
  --gradient-3: linear-gradient(90deg,#155dfc,#1447e6 50%,#010492);

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-headings: 'arial', sans-serif;
  --font-body: 'arial', sans-serif;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 4px;
  --radius-2: 50%;
  --radius-3: 8px;
  --radius-4: 2px;
  --radius-5: 4px 4px 0 0;
  --radius-6: 0 0 4px 4px;

  /* Layout (breakpoints can’t be used in media queries as variables; they’re here for reference) */
  --breakpoint-1: 480px;
  --breakpoint-2: 767px;
  --breakpoint-3: 768px;
  --breakpoint-4: 995px;
  --breakpoint-5: 996px;
  --breakpoint-6: 1139px;
  --breakpoint-7: 1140px;
  --breakpoint-8: 1368px;
  --max-width-1: 950px;
  --max-width-2: 823px;
  --max-width-3: 800px;
  --max-width-4: 750px;
  --max-width-5: 680px;
  --max-width-6: 480px;
}

{
    "site": "europa.eu",
    "source": "https://sitestyleguide.com/europa.eu",
    "text": "#191D26",
    "background": "#FFFFFF",
    "colours": [
        {
            "name": "Cool Near Black",
            "hex": "#191D26",
            "rgb": [
                25,
                29,
                38
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "White",
            "hex": "#FFFFFF",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                255,
                255
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Cool Off White",
            "hex": "#F3F6FC",
            "rgb": [
                243,
                246,
                252
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Cool Dark Grey",
            "hex": "#515560",
            "rgb": [
                81,
                85,
                96
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Slate Blue",
            "hex": "#0E47CB",
            "rgb": [
                14,
                71,
                203
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Lavender",
            "hex": "#CFDAF5",
            "rgb": [
                207,
                218,
                245
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Gold",
            "hex": "#FFCC00",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                204,
                0
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Deep Crimson",
            "hex": "#D7003D",
            "rgb": [
                215,
                0,
                61
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Light Slate Blue",
            "hex": "#0B39A2",
            "rgb": [
                11,
                57,
                162
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Midnight Blue",
            "hex": "#030E2E",
            "rgb": [
                3,
                14,
                46
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Royal Blue",
            "hex": "#3E6CD5",
            "rgb": [
                62,
                108,
                213
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Medium Sea Green",
            "hex": "#00A174",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                161,
                116
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Coral",
            "hex": "#FF8133",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                129,
                51
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Deep Slate Blue",
            "hex": "#0A328E",
            "rgb": [
                10,
                50,
                142
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Light Crimson",
            "hex": "#EF0044",
            "rgb": [
                239,
                0,
                68
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Aqua",
            "hex": "#00E9FF",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                233,
                255
            ]
        }
    ],
    "fonts": [
        {
            "name": "arial",
            "stack": "arial, sans-serif",
            "weights": [
                400
            ],
            "source": "System font, or not loaded on this page"
        }
    ]
}

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Captured from europa.eu on 4 November 2026. SiteStyleGuide isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by European Union; this guide describes the public website for reference.

European Unionstyle guide

Title &description

Logo

Favicons

Colour

Balance

Neutrals

Cool Near Black

White

Cool Off White

Cool Dark Grey

Colours

Slate Blue

Lavender

Gold

Deep Crimson

Light Slate Blue

Midnight Blue

Royal Blue

Medium Sea Green

Coral

Deep Slate Blue

Light Crimson

Aqua

Gradients

arial

Elements

Grid

Notes

Questions

Tokens

Share

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LMGTFY

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Title &
description