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30 Years of Curiositystyle guide

30 Years of Curiosity’s website (reference.com) sets its headings in Playfair Display and its body text in Inter. It uses #1A1A1A text on #FCFCFC. Captured from the live site on 26 October 2026.

Typefaces
Inter, Playfair Display
Palette
2 neutrals, 0 colours
Captured
26 Oct 2026 · added by @sitestyleguide
https://www.reference.com/ Screenshot
Screenshot of the reference.com homepage on a desktop screen
Screenshot of reference.com on a 1440 px desktop screen, 26 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
A Farewell to Ask.com | 30 Years of Curiosity
● 45 / 60 characters
Meta description
Missing
▲ 0 / 160 characters
Language
en

In search results

30 Years of Curiosityhttps://www.reference.com/

A Farewell to Ask.com | 30 Years of Curiosity

When shared

No og:image, so no picture

reference.com

A Farewell to Ask.com | 30 Years of Curiosity

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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 (#1A1A1A) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used
  • White 55.6%
  • Near Black 44.4%

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 1
    On text
    16.96:1 AAA
    On white
    1.03:1 Fail

    Background · body

  • Near Black

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 90
    On text
    —
    On white
    17.40:1 AAA

    Text · body

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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.

Playfair Display

Aa 400

Inter

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

Aa 400

Playfair Display

Google Fonts · weights 400 · headings

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

Type scale

From the site’s CSS
Heading 1 — Playfair Display

30 Years of Curiosity

Heading 2 — Playfair Display

A Farewell to Ask.com | 30 Years of Curiosity

Heading 3 — Playfair Display

A Farewell to Ask.com | 30 Years of Curiosity

Body — Inter

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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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

No button, link, radius or shadow styles could be read.

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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

No breakpoints or content widths could be read.

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Notes

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

Notes

  • ● FineThe title is 45 characters, short enough to show in full in search results.
  • ▲ CheckThere is no meta description, so search engines will pick text from the page.
  • ▲ CheckThere is no og:image, so links shared on social media show no picture.
  • ▲ CheckNo favicon could be found.

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Questions

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

Questions

What font does 30 Years of Curiosity use?
30 Years of Curiosity’s website uses two typefaces: Inter (body text), a system font; Playfair Display (headings), google Fonts.
What are 30 Years of Curiosity’s brand colours?
The main colours on reference.com are White (#FCFCFC) and Near Black (#1A1A1A).
What colour is 30 Years of Curiosity’s text and background?
Body text is #1A1A1A on a #FCFCFC background.
Is this 30 Years of Curiosity’s official style guide?
No. SiteStyleGuide made it from reference.com’s public web pages on 26 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with 30 Years of Curiosity. 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

reference-com-tokens.css

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/* reference.com design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/reference.com) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #1A1A1A;
  --background: #FCFCFC;
  --colour-white: #FCFCFC;
  --colour-near-black: #1A1A1A;

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-body: 'Inter', sans-serif;
  --font-headings: 'Playfair Display', serif;
}

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Captured from reference.com on 26 October 2026. SiteStyleGuide isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by 30 Years of Curiosity; this guide describes the public website for reference.