What font does LifeHack use?

LifeHack’s website uses three typefaces: Barlow (headings and body text), self-hosted; Argent CF, self-hosted; Arsenal, self-hosted.

What are LifeHack’s brand colours?

The main colours on lifehack.org are Light Slate Grey (#2A6354), Black (#111827), Gold (#EBCC5E), Deep Slate Grey (#1A5344), Coral (#EE7546) and White (#FFFFFF).

What colour is LifeHack’s text and background?

Body text is #111827 on a #FAF9F5 background.

Where is LifeHack’s logo from?

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

Is this LifeHack’s official style guide?

No. SiteStyleGuide made it from lifehack.org’s public web pages on 30 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with LifeHack. Members can refresh a guide after 90 days to pick up changes.

LifeHack Style Guide: Colours, Fonts & Logo

Identity & metadata

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

Title &
description

Page title: LifeHack - Make what you know finally stick.; ● 44 / 60 characters
Meta description: LifeHack helps you rebuild routines, focus, energy, and priorities when work, health, family, and money all pull at once.; ● 121 / 160 characters
Site name: LifeHack
og:title: LifeHack - Make what you know finally stick.
og:description: Rebuild routines, focus, energy, and priorities when work, health, family, and money all pull at once.
Language: en

In search results

LifeHackhttps://www.lifehack.org/

LifeHack - Make what you know finally stick.

LifeHack helps you rebuild routines, focus, energy, and priorities when work, health, family, and money all pull at once.

When shared

No og:image, so no picture

lifehack.org

LifeHack - Make what you know finally stick.

Rebuild routines, focus, energy, and priorities when work, health, family, and money all pull at once.

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Logo & favicons

Found as: image in the header. SVG, 640 × 160.

Logo

On white

On black

On Light Slate Grey

Favicons

2 found

180 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
48 px · ICO icon

LifeHack - Make what you know finally stick.

Light browser tab

LifeHack - Make what you know finally stick.

Dark browser tab

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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 (#111827) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used

Light Slate Grey 27.2%
Black 23.9%
White 20.5%
Cool Dark Grey 14.4%
Gold 6.2%
Deep Slate Grey 3.3%
Warm Charcoal 2.1%
Black 1.7%
Coral 0.7%

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
17.74:1 AAA

On white
—

Background, text, border · html, body
Cool Dark Grey

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
24 14 0 61

On text
2.35:1 Fail

On white
7.56:1 AAA

Text · .article-body :where(p,h6).gb-headline, .hero p
Warm Charcoal

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
26 0 10 84

On text
1.20:1 Fail

On white
14.82:1 AAA

Text · .nav-group summary, .article--post .article-body
Black

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 100

On text
1.18:1 Fail

On white
21.00:1 AAA

Text, background · .lh-hello-bar[data-astro-cid-5xku6frc], .lh-hello-bar__cta[data-astro-cid-5xku6frc]

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first

Light Slate Grey

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
58 0 15 61

On text
2.54:1 Fail

On white
6.97:1 AA

Text, background, border · .article-references h2, .article-read-more__title
Black

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
56 38 0 85

On text
—

On white
17.74:1 AAA

Text, background · body, h1
Gold

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 13 60 8

On text
11.26:1 AAA

On white
1.58:1 Fail

Text, background, border · .lh-eop__heading[data-astro-cid-bta7dw2n], .embed-facade-play
Deep Slate Grey

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
69 0 18 67

On text
2.00:1 Fail

On white
8.88:1 AAA

Background, text · .embed-facade, .home-proof
Coral

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 51 71 7

On text
6.14:1 AA

On white
2.89:1 Fail

Background, border · .lh-eop__submit[data-astro-cid-bta7dw2n], --lh-orange

Gradients

radial-gradient(900px 600px at 92% -10%, #ebcc5e29, transparent 55%), radial-gradient(700px 500px at -10% 12%, #2a635417, transparent 60%)
linear-gradient(135deg,#2a63541a,#ebcc5e1f)
radial-gradient(540px 320px at 110% -10%,#ebcc5e4d,#0000 65%),radial-gradient(440px 360px at -20% 0,#2a63541a,#0000 65%)

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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.

Barlow

Aa 300 Aa 800

Barlow

Self-hosted · weights 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 · headings, body, buttons · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400 Aa 800

Argent CF

Self-hosted · weights 400, 700, 800 · headings · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400 Aa 700

Arsenal

Self-hosted · weights 400, 700 · headings · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

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

Type scale

From the site’s CSS

Heading 1 clamp(44px,6.5vw,78px) · 78 px / 1.04 weight 800 · Argent CF

LifeHack

Heading 2 clamp(32px,4vw,48px) · 48 px / 1.08 weight 800 · Argent CF

LifeHack - Make what you know finally stick.

Heading 3 24px / 1.2 weight 700 · Barlow

LifeHack - Make what you know finally stick.

Body 17px / 1.6 weight 400 · Barlow

LifeHack helps you rebuild routines, focus, energy, and priorities when work, health, family, and money all pull at once.

Paragraph 17px / 1.5

LifeHack helps you rebuild routines, focus, energy, and priorities when work, health, family, and money all pull at once.

Link 14px / 1.35 weight 700 · none · Argent CF

Sizes in use

Most common across the site

22pxline 1.1 · 4 rules
18pxline 1.35 · 7 rules
17pxline 1.6 · 5 rules
16pxline 1.3 · 14 rules
15pxline 1.55 · 22 rules
14pxline 1.4 · 12 rules
13pxline 1.2 · 13 rules
12pxline 1.35 · 10 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

Corner radius

8px · 18×
14px · 10×
999px · 10×
10px · 8×
6px · 5×
50% · 4×

Shadows

0 1px 2px #1118270d
0 18px 38px -10px #2a63542e, 0 8px 16px -8px #11182714
0 4px 14px -2px #2a63541f, 0 2px 4px -2px #1118270f
0 10px 24px -8px #2a635473

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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

Content widths (max-width)

880 px

760 px

720 px

640 px

540 px

520 px

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Notes

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

Notes

● FineThe title is 44 characters, short enough to show in full in search results.

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Questions

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

Questions

What font does LifeHack use?: LifeHack’s website uses three typefaces: Barlow (headings and body text), self-hosted; Argent CF, self-hosted; Arsenal, self-hosted.
What are LifeHack’s brand colours?: The main colours on lifehack.org are Light Slate Grey (#2A6354), Black (#111827), Gold (#EBCC5E), Deep Slate Grey (#1A5344), Coral (#EE7546) and White (#FFFFFF).
What colour is LifeHack’s text and background?: Body text is #111827 on a #FAF9F5 background.
Where is LifeHack’s logo from?: The logo shown in this guide was found on lifehack.org’s homepage. For official logo files and usage rules, check LifeHack’s own brand or press page.
Is this LifeHack’s official style guide?: No. SiteStyleGuide made it from lifehack.org’s public web pages on 30 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with LifeHack. 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

lifehack-org-tokens.css

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/* lifehack.org design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/lifehack.org) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #111827;
  --background: #FAF9F5;
  --colour-white: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-cool-dark-grey: #4B5563;
  --colour-warm-charcoal: #1F2A26;
  --colour-black: #000000;
  --colour-light-slate-grey: #2A6354;
  --colour-black-2: #111827;
  --colour-gold: #EBCC5E;
  --colour-deep-slate-grey: #1A5344;
  --colour-coral: #EE7546;
  --gradient-1: radial-gradient(900px 600px at 92% -10%, #ebcc5e29, transparent 55%), radial-gradient(700px 500px at -10% 12%, #2a635417, transparent 60%);
  --gradient-2: linear-gradient(135deg,#2a63541a,#ebcc5e1f);
  --gradient-3: radial-gradient(540px 320px at 110% -10%,#ebcc5e4d,#0000 65%),radial-gradient(440px 360px at -20% 0,#2a63541a,#0000 65%);

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-headings: 'Barlow', system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;
  --font-body: 'Barlow', system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;
  --font-buttons: 'Barlow', system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;

  /* Type scale */
  --text-h1: clamp(44px,6.5vw,78px);
  --leading-h1: 1.04;
  --text-h2: clamp(32px,4vw,48px);
  --leading-h2: 1.08;
  --text-h3: 24px;
  --leading-h3: 1.2;
  --text-body: 17px;
  --leading-body: 1.6;
  --text-p: 17px;
  --leading-p: 1.5;
  --text-a: 14px;
  --leading-a: 1.35;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 8px;
  --radius-2: 14px;
  --radius-3: 999px;
  --radius-4: 10px;
  --radius-5: 6px;
  --radius-6: 50%;
}

{
    "site": "lifehack.org",
    "source": "https://sitestyleguide.com/lifehack.org",
    "text": "#111827",
    "background": "#FAF9F5",
    "colours": [
        {
            "name": "White",
            "hex": "#FFFFFF",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                255,
                255
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Cool Dark Grey",
            "hex": "#4B5563",
            "rgb": [
                75,
                85,
                99
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Warm Charcoal",
            "hex": "#1F2A26",
            "rgb": [
                31,
                42,
                38
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Black",
            "hex": "#000000",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                0,
                0
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Light Slate Grey",
            "hex": "#2A6354",
            "rgb": [
                42,
                99,
                84
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Black",
            "hex": "#111827",
            "rgb": [
                17,
                24,
                39
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Gold",
            "hex": "#EBCC5E",
            "rgb": [
                235,
                204,
                94
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Deep Slate Grey",
            "hex": "#1A5344",
            "rgb": [
                26,
                83,
                68
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Coral",
            "hex": "#EE7546",
            "rgb": [
                238,
                117,
                70
            ]
        }
    ],
    "fonts": [
        {
            "name": "Barlow",
            "stack": "\"Barlow\", system-ui, -apple-system, \"Segoe UI\", sans-serif",
            "weights": [
                300,
                400,
                500,
                600,
                700,
                800
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        },
        {
            "name": "Argent CF",
            "stack": "\"Argent CF\", \"Fraunces\", Georgia, serif",
            "weights": [
                400,
                700,
                800
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        },
        {
            "name": "Arsenal",
            "stack": "\"Arsenal\", Georgia, serif",
            "weights": [
                400,
                700
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        }
    ]
}

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description

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Favicons

Colour

Balance

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Warm Charcoal

Black

Colours

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Gold

Deep Slate Grey

Coral

Gradients

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