What font does heise online use?

heise online’s website uses two typefaces: Source Sans Pro (headings and body text), self-hosted; Source Sans VF, self-hosted.

What are heise online’s brand colours?

The main colours on heise.de are Deep Royal Blue (#0056A4), Light Midnight Blue (#14315B), Forest Green (#27A209), Light Slate Blue (#004D80), Fire Brick (#CE001E) and Light Royal Blue (#0068C7).

What colour is heise online’s text and background?

Body text is #323232 on a #FFFFFF background.

Where is heise online’s logo from?

The logo shown in this guide was found on heise.de’s homepage. For official logo files and usage rules, check heise online’s own brand or press page.

Is this heise online’s official style guide?

No. SiteStyleGuide made it from heise.de’s public web pages on 23 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with heise online. Members can refresh a guide after 90 days to pick up changes.

Unofficial A style guide made by SiteStyleGuide from heise.de’s public web pages. Not affiliated with or endorsed by heise online. The real site is heise.de ↗

Unofficial style guide

heise onlinestyle guide

heise online’s website (heise.de) uses Source Sans Pro for its headings and body text. Its palette is led by Deep Royal Blue (#0056A4), Light Midnight Blue (#14315B) and Forest Green (#27A209), with #323232 text on #FFFFFF. Captured from the live site on 23 October 2026.

Website: heise.de
Typefaces: Source Sans Pro, Source Sans VF, SFMono-Regular
Palette: 4 neutrals, 12 colours, 3 gradients
Captured: 23 Oct 2026 · added by @sitestyleguide

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Screenshot of the heise.de homepage on a desktop screen — Screenshot of heise.de on a 1440 px desktop screen, 23 Oct 2026.

Screenshot of the heise.de 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: heise online - IT-News, Nachrichten und Hintergründe | heise online; ▲ 67 / 60 characters
Meta description: News und Foren zu Computer, IT, Wissenschaft, Medien und Politik. Preisvergleich von Hardware und Software sowie Downloads bei Heise Medien.; ● 140 / 160 characters
Site name: heise online
og:title: heise online - IT-News, Nachrichten und Hintergründe | heise online
og:description: News und Foren zu Computer, IT, Wissenschaft, Medien und Politik. Preisvergleich von Hardware und Software sowie Downloads bei Heise Medien.
Language: de
Theme colour: #202020

In search results

heise onlinehttps://www.heise.de/

heise online - IT-News, Nachrichten und Hintergründe | heise …

News und Foren zu Computer, IT, Wissenschaft, Medien und Politik. Preisvergleich von Hardware und Software sowie Downloads bei Heise Medien.

When shared

The image heise online shares with links

heise.de

heise online - IT-News, Nachrichten und Hintergründe | heise online

News und Foren zu Computer, IT, Wissenschaft, Medien und Politik. Preisvergleich von Hardware und Software so…

Logo & favicons

Found as: image in the header. SVG, 566 × 499.

Logo

On white

On black

On Deep Royal Blue

Favicons

7 found

512 px · PNG manifest
320 px · SVG icon
192 px · PNG manifest
180 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
32 px · ICO icon
32 px · PNG icon
16 px · PNG icon

heise online - IT-News, Nachrichten und Hintergründe | heise online

Light browser tab

heise online - IT-News, Nachrichten und Hintergründe | heise online

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 (#323232) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used

White 33.7%
Charcoal 12.4%
Deep Royal Blue 11.4%
Black 9.9%
Off White 8.9%
Light Midnight Blue 3.4%
Forest Green 2.9%
Light Slate Blue 2.7%
Fire Brick 2.3%
Light Royal Blue 2.1%
Cornflower Blue 2.1%
Deep Slate Blue 1.9%
Brown 1.7%
Deep Midnight Blue 1.7%
Red 1.5%
Tomato 1.5%

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
12.82:1 AAA

On white
—

Text, background, border · --brand-button-text, --brand-button-accent-text
Charcoal

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 80

On text
—

On white
12.82:1 AAA

Text, background, border · --brand-button-hover, --brand-button-accent-hover
Black

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 100

On text
1.64:1 Fail

On white
21.00:1 AAA

Background, text, border · --brand-alternative, --brand-alternative-dark
Off White

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 12

On text
9.71:1 AAA

On white
1.32:1 Fail

Background, text, graphic · .supporter__submit[type=submit].is-disabled, --tw-shadow

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first

Deep Royal Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 48 0 36

On text
1.75:1 Fail

On white
7.32:1 AAA

Background, text, border · a-clipboard button, --brand
Light Midnight Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
78 46 0 64

On text
1.01:1 Fail

On white
12.96:1 AAA

Text, background, border · --brand, --brand-branding
Forest Green

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
76 0 94 36

On text
3.82:1 AA large

On white
3.36:1 AA large

Background, border, text · a-gift-link dialog .cta-btn, .supporter__submit[type=submit]
Light Slate Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 40 0 50

On text
1.45:1 Fail

On white
8.85:1 AAA

Text, background · a-clipboard button:hover, a-notify
Fire Brick

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 100 85 19

On text
2.22:1 Fail

On white
5.76:1 AA

Used · --brand, --brand-branding
Light Royal Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 48 0 22

On text
2.32:1 Fail

On white
5.52:1 AA

Background, text · --brand-light, .bg-blue-700
Cornflower Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
61 36 0 0

On text
5.06:1 AA

On white
2.53:1 Fail

Text, background, border · .before\:bg-heisehellblau-400::before, .text-heisehellblau
Deep Slate Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 48 0 52

On text
1.23:1 Fail

On white
10.43:1 AAA

Background, text, graphic · --brand-dark, .dark\:bg-brand-dark:is(.dark *)
Brown

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 82 82 40

On text
1.54:1 Fail

On white
8.31:1 AAA

Background, text, border · --brand-dark, --brand-button-hover
Deep Midnight Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 52 0 71

On text
1.21:1 Fail

On white
15.51:1 AAA

Border · --brand-dark, --brand-button-hover
Red

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 100 88 11

On text
2.59:1 Fail

On white
4.94:1 AA

Background, border, text · .bg-\[\#e2001a\], .bg-\[\#e42322\]
Tomato

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 73 77 2

On text
3.58:1 AA large

On white
3.58:1 AA large

Used · --brand-light, --brand

Gradients

linear-gradient(to top, )
linear-gradient(to bottom, )
linear-gradient(to left, )

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.

Source Sans Pro

Aa 400 Aa 600

Source Sans Pro

Self-hosted · weights 400, 600 · body · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 200 Aa 900

Source Sans VF

Self-hosted · weights 200, 400, 900 · body · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400

SFMono-Regular

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

Small 80%

News und Foren zu Computer, IT, Wissenschaft, Medien und Politik. Preisvergleich von Hardware und Software sowie Downloads bei Heise Medien.

Button 100% none

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Sizes in use

Most common across the site

30pxline 2.25rem · 2 rules
28pxline 1.75rem · 7 rules
24pxline 2rem · 2 rules
20pxline 1.75rem · 3 rules
18pxline 1.75rem · 6 rules
16pxline 1.5rem · 19 rules
14pxline 1.25rem · 12 rules
12pxline 1rem · 3 rules

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

a-gift-link dialog .cta-btn · #27A209 · radius 0.1875rem

Corner radius

0.1875rem · 12×
50% · 5×
0.3125rem · 4×
3px · 3×
16px · 2×

Shadows

0 0 #0000, 0 0 #0000, 0 0 #0000
0 0 0 0.125rem rgba(0,86,164,.5)
0 0 0 0.125rem rgba(29.835,123.93,6.885,.5)
0 0 0.625rem #959595

Layout

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

Grid

Breakpoints

576

640

768

992

1024

1104

1280

1536

On a scale of 0 to 1536 px.

Content widths (max-width)

1104 px

768 px

672 px

600 px

576 px

512 px

Notes

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

Notes

▲ CheckThe title is 67 characters. Google usually cuts titles near 60, so the end may not show in results.

Questions

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

Questions

What font does heise online use?: heise online’s website uses two typefaces: Source Sans Pro (headings and body text), self-hosted; Source Sans VF, self-hosted.
What are heise online’s brand colours?: The main colours on heise.de are Deep Royal Blue (#0056A4), Light Midnight Blue (#14315B), Forest Green (#27A209), Light Slate Blue (#004D80), Fire Brick (#CE001E) and Light Royal Blue (#0068C7).
What colour is heise online’s text and background?: Body text is #323232 on a #FFFFFF background.
Where is heise online’s logo from?: The logo shown in this guide was found on heise.de’s homepage. For official logo files and usage rules, check heise online’s own brand or press page.
Is this heise online’s official style guide?: No. SiteStyleGuide made it from heise.de’s public web pages on 23 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with heise online. 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

heise-de-tokens.css

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/* heise.de design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/heise.de) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #323232;
  --background: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-white: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-charcoal: #323232;
  --colour-black: #000000;
  --colour-off-white: #E0E0E0;
  --colour-deep-royal-blue: #0056A4;
  --colour-light-midnight-blue: #14315B;
  --colour-forest-green: #27A209;
  --colour-light-slate-blue: #004D80;
  --colour-fire-brick: #CE001E;
  --colour-light-royal-blue: #0068C7;
  --colour-cornflower-blue: #64A4FF;
  --colour-deep-slate-blue: #00407A;
  --colour-brown: #991B1B;
  --colour-deep-midnight-blue: #00244B;
  --colour-red: #E2001A;
  --colour-tomato: #F9423A;
  --gradient-1: linear-gradient(to top, );
  --gradient-2: linear-gradient(to bottom, );
  --gradient-3: linear-gradient(to left, );

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-body: 'Source Sans Pro', system-ui, -apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, 'Segoe UI', 'Roboto';
  --font-other: ui-monospace, 'SFMono-Regular', 'Menlo', 'Monaco', 'Consolas', 'Liberation Mono';

  /* Type scale */
  --text-small: 80%;
  --text-button: 100%;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 0.1875rem;
  --radius-2: 50%;
  --radius-3: 0.3125rem;
  --radius-4: 3px;
  --radius-5: 16px;

  /* Layout (breakpoints can’t be used in media queries as variables; they’re here for reference) */
  --breakpoint-1: 576px;
  --breakpoint-2: 640px;
  --breakpoint-3: 768px;
  --breakpoint-4: 992px;
  --breakpoint-5: 1024px;
  --breakpoint-6: 1104px;
  --breakpoint-7: 1280px;
  --breakpoint-8: 1536px;
  --max-width-1: 1104px;
  --max-width-2: 768px;
  --max-width-3: 672px;
  --max-width-4: 600px;
  --max-width-5: 576px;
  --max-width-6: 512px;
}

{
    "site": "heise.de",
    "source": "https://sitestyleguide.com/heise.de",
    "text": "#323232",
    "background": "#FFFFFF",
    "colours": [
        {
            "name": "White",
            "hex": "#FFFFFF",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                255,
                255
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Charcoal",
            "hex": "#323232",
            "rgb": [
                50,
                50,
                50
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Black",
            "hex": "#000000",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                0,
                0
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Off White",
            "hex": "#E0E0E0",
            "rgb": [
                224,
                224,
                224
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Deep Royal Blue",
            "hex": "#0056A4",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                86,
                164
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Light Midnight Blue",
            "hex": "#14315B",
            "rgb": [
                20,
                49,
                91
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Forest Green",
            "hex": "#27A209",
            "rgb": [
                39,
                162,
                9
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Light Slate Blue",
            "hex": "#004D80",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                77,
                128
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Fire Brick",
            "hex": "#CE001E",
            "rgb": [
                206,
                0,
                30
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Light Royal Blue",
            "hex": "#0068C7",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                104,
                199
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Cornflower Blue",
            "hex": "#64A4FF",
            "rgb": [
                100,
                164,
                255
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Deep Slate Blue",
            "hex": "#00407A",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                64,
                122
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Brown",
            "hex": "#991B1B",
            "rgb": [
                153,
                27,
                27
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Deep Midnight Blue",
            "hex": "#00244B",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                36,
                75
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Red",
            "hex": "#E2001A",
            "rgb": [
                226,
                0,
                26
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Tomato",
            "hex": "#F9423A",
            "rgb": [
                249,
                66,
                58
            ]
        }
    ],
    "fonts": [
        {
            "name": "Source Sans Pro",
            "stack": "\"Source Sans Pro\", system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", Arial, \"Noto Sans\", sans-serif, \"Apple Color Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Symbol\", \"Noto Color Emoji\"",
            "weights": [
                400,
                600
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        },
        {
            "name": "Source Sans VF",
            "stack": "\"Source Sans VF\", system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", Arial, \"Noto Sans\", sans-serif, \"Apple Color Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Symbol\", \"Noto Color Emoji\"",
            "weights": [
                200,
                400,
                900
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        },
        {
            "name": "SFMono-Regular",
            "stack": "ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, \"Liberation Mono\", \"Courier New\", monospace",
            "weights": [],
            "source": "System font, or not loaded on this page"
        }
    ]
}

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Sniply

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accessify.com · set in Source Sans Pro
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Websites whose lead colour is closest to heise online’s

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CDC

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Captured from heise.de on 23 October 2026. SiteStyleGuide isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by heise online; this guide describes the public website for reference.

heise onlinestyle guide

Title &description

Logo

Favicons

Colour

Balance

Neutrals

White

Charcoal

Black

Off White

Colours

Deep Royal Blue

Light Midnight Blue

Forest Green

Light Slate Blue

Fire Brick

Light Royal Blue

Cornflower Blue

Deep Slate Blue

Brown

Deep Midnight Blue

Red

Tomato

Gradients

Source Sans Pro

Type scale

Sizes in use

Elements

Grid

Notes

Questions

Tokens

Share

Run heise.de?

Also set in Source Sans Pro

Hunter Store

Internal Revenue Service

Sniply

Accessify

Similar colours

ndr.de

Das Örtliche

华声在线

CDC

Title &
description