What font does Sam Thies use?

Sam Thies’s website uses one typeface: Quadrant Text Mono (headings and body text), self-hosted.

What are Sam Thies’s brand colours?

The main colours on samthies.com are Steel Blue (#007AFF), Chocolate (#CD6238), White (#FFFFFF), Charcoal (#2B2728), Near Black (#121212) and Black (#000000).

What colour is Sam Thies’s text and background?

Body text is #2B2728 on a #121212 background.

Is this Sam Thies’s official style guide?

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

Sam Thies 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: Australian Film Maker & Photographer | Sam Thies; ● 48 / 60 characters
Meta description: A collection of visual stories across people, place, and culture.; ● 65 / 160 characters
og:title: Australian Film Maker & Photographer
og:description: A collection of visual stories across people, place, and culture.
Language: en

In search results

Sam Thieshttps://samthies.com/

Australian Film Maker & Photographer | Sam Thies

A collection of visual stories across people, place, and culture.

When shared

samthies.com

Australian Film Maker & Photographer

A collection of visual stories across people, place, and culture.

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Logo & favicons

No logo could be found on the homepage.

Logo

Favicons

8 found

384 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
256 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
192 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
144 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
96 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
72 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
48 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
32 px · PNG icon

Australian Film Maker & Photographer | Sam Thies

Light browser tab

Australian Film Maker & Photographer | Sam Thies

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 (#2B2728) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used

White 48%
Charcoal 22.8%
Near Black 20.3%
Black 3.7%
Steel Blue 2.7%
Chocolate 2.6%

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
14.75:1 AAA

On white
—

Text, background · .masthead, .hero-caption
Charcoal

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 9 7 83

On text
—

On white
14.75:1 AAA

Text, background · body, .masthead.dark
Near Black

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 93

On text
1.27:1 Fail

On white
18.73:1 AAA

Background · body, .hero--banner
Black

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 100

On text
1.42:1 Fail

On white
21.00:1 AAA

Text · body ::selection, --swiper-preloader-color

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first

Steel Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 52 0 0

On text
3.67:1 AA large

On white
4.02:1 AA large

Border · --swiper-theme-color, .swiper-lazy-preloader
Chocolate

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 52 73 20

On text
3.79:1 AA large

On white
3.89:1 AA large

Background · body ::selection

Gradients

linear-gradient(270deg,rgba(0,0,0,.5),transparent)
linear-gradient(90deg,rgba(0,0,0,.5),transparent)
linear-gradient(0deg,rgba(0,0,0,.5),transparent)

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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.

Quadrant Text Mono

Aa 400

Quadrant Text Mono

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

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

Type scale

From the site’s CSS

Body 12px / 1.3 Quadrant Text Mono

A collection of visual stories across people, place, and culture.

Sizes in use

Most common across the site

18px1 rules
16px1 rules
12pxline 1.3 · 1 rules
10px1 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

50% · 1×

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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

768

On a scale of 0 to 1440 px.

Content widths (max-width)

1600 px

580 px

550 px

380 px

350 px

300 px

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Notes

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

Notes

● FineThe title is 48 characters, short enough to show in full in search results.
▲ CheckBody text (#2B2728 on #121212) has a contrast of 1.27:1, under the 4.5:1 WCAG asks for.

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Questions

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

Questions

What font does Sam Thies use?: Sam Thies’s website uses one typeface: Quadrant Text Mono (headings and body text), self-hosted.
What are Sam Thies’s brand colours?: The main colours on samthies.com are Steel Blue (#007AFF), Chocolate (#CD6238), White (#FFFFFF), Charcoal (#2B2728), Near Black (#121212) and Black (#000000).
What colour is Sam Thies’s text and background?: Body text is #2B2728 on a #121212 background.
Is this Sam Thies’s official style guide?: No. SiteStyleGuide made it from samthies.com’s public web pages on 4 November 2026, and isn’t affiliated with Sam Thies. 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

samthies-com-tokens.css

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/* samthies.com design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/samthies.com) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #2B2728;
  --background: #121212;
  --colour-white: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-charcoal: #2B2728;
  --colour-near-black: #121212;
  --colour-black: #000000;
  --colour-steel-blue: #007AFF;
  --colour-chocolate: #CD6238;
  --gradient-1: linear-gradient(270deg,rgba(0,0,0,.5),transparent);
  --gradient-2: linear-gradient(90deg,rgba(0,0,0,.5),transparent);
  --gradient-3: linear-gradient(0deg,rgba(0,0,0,.5),transparent);

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-body: 'Quadrant Text Mono';

  /* Type scale */
  --text-body: 12px;
  --leading-body: 1.3;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 50%;

  /* Layout (breakpoints can’t be used in media queries as variables; they’re here for reference) */
  --breakpoint-1: 768px;
  --max-width-1: 1600px;
  --max-width-2: 580px;
  --max-width-3: 550px;
  --max-width-4: 380px;
  --max-width-5: 350px;
  --max-width-6: 300px;
}

{
    "site": "samthies.com",
    "source": "https://sitestyleguide.com/samthies.com",
    "text": "#2B2728",
    "background": "#121212",
    "colours": [
        {
            "name": "White",
            "hex": "#FFFFFF",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                255,
                255
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Charcoal",
            "hex": "#2B2728",
            "rgb": [
                43,
                39,
                40
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Near Black",
            "hex": "#121212",
            "rgb": [
                18,
                18,
                18
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Black",
            "hex": "#000000",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                0,
                0
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Steel Blue",
            "hex": "#007AFF",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                122,
                255
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Chocolate",
            "hex": "#CD6238",
            "rgb": [
                205,
                98,
                56
            ]
        }
    ],
    "fonts": [
        {
            "name": "Quadrant Text Mono",
            "stack": "Quadrant Text Mono",
            "weights": [
                400
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        }
    ]
}

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