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

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Sonosstyle guide

Sonos’s website (sonos.com) uses aktiv-grotesk for its headings and body text. Its palette is led by Light Coral (#DE8579), Dark Slate Grey (#1C5F4A) and Tan (#C59C6E), with #000000 text on #FFFFFF. Captured from the live site on 27 October 2026.

Website
sonos.com
Typefaces
aktiv-grotesk, bold, SFMono-Regular
Palette
4 neutrals, 12 colours, 3 gradients
Captured
27 Oct 2026 · added by @sitestyleguide
https://www.sonos.com/en-au/home Screenshot
Screenshot of the sonos.com homepage on a desktop screen
Screenshot of sonos.com on a 1440 px desktop screen, 27 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
Sonos: Introducing Beam Ultra and Sonos Ace Ultra
● 49 / 60 characters
Meta description
Introducing our new soundbar, Beam Ultra, and our latest over ear headphones, Sonos Ace Ultra. Now available.
● 109 / 160 characters
Site name
Sonos
og:title
Sonos: Love the Sound, Feel the System - Home Sound Systems and Wireless Speakers
og:description
Introducing our new soundbar, Beam Ultra, and our latest over ear headphones, Sonos Ace Ultra. Now available.
Language
en-au

In search results

Sonoshttps://www.sonos.com/en-au/home

Sonos: Introducing Beam Ultra and Sonos Ace Ultra

Introducing our new soundbar, Beam Ultra, and our latest over ear headphones, Sonos Ace Ultra. Now available.

When shared

The image Sonos shares with links

sonos.com

Sonos: Love the Sound, Feel the System - Home Sound Systems and Wireless Speakers

Introducing our new soundbar, Beam Ultra, and our latest over ear headphones, Sonos Ace Ultra. Now available.

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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 (#000000) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used
  • White 30.4%
  • Black 25.1%
  • Charcoal 9.9%
  • Off White 9.3%
  • Light Coral 3%
  • Dark Slate Grey 2.4%
  • Tan 2.4%
  • Red 2.2%
  • Fire Brick 2.1%
  • Light Golden Rod Yellow 1.9%
  • Green Yellow 1.9%
  • Lime Green 1.9%
  • Dark Olive Green 1.9%
  • Peach Puff 1.9%
  • Coral 1.9%
  • Brown 1.9%

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
    21.00:1 AAA
    On white
    —

    Background, text, border · inline style on <article>, body

  • Black

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 100
    On text
    —
    On white
    21.00:1 AAA

    Background, text, border · .bg-black-and-soft-white, .after\:bg-black-and-soft-white:after

  • Charcoal

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 82
    On text
    1.55:1 Fail
    On white
    13.58:1 AAA

    Text, background, border · .bg-grayDarkest, .after\:bg-grayDarkest:after

  • Off White

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 7
    On text
    18.10:1 AAA
    On white
    1.16:1 Fail

    Background, text · .bg-black-and-soft-white, .after\:bg-black-and-soft-white:after

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first
  • Light Coral

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 40 45 13
    On text
    7.74:1 AAA
    On white
    2.71:1 Fail

    Background, border, text · .bg-\[\#de8579\], .bg-accentRed

  • Dark Slate Grey

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    71 0 22 63
    On text
    2.79:1 Fail
    On white
    7.54:1 AAA

    Background, text · .bg-\[\#1C5F4A\], .bg-greenDarkest

  • Tan

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 21 44 23
    On text
    8.35:1 AAA
    On white
    2.51:1 Fail

    Background, text · .bg-accentGold, .after\:bg-accentGold:after

  • Red

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 78 89 15
    On text
    4.37:1 AA large
    On white
    4.81:1 AA

    Background, text · .bg-redDarker, .after\:bg-redDarker:after

  • Fire Brick

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 95 91 30
    On text
    2.96:1 Fail
    On white
    7.09:1 AAA

    Background, text · .bg-redDarkest, .after\:bg-redDarkest:after

  • Light Golden Rod Yellow

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    11 0 21 9
    On text
    15.73:1 AAA
    On white
    1.34:1 Fail

    Background, text · .bg-greenLight, .after\:bg-greenLight:after

  • Green Yellow

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    24 0 100 1
    On text
    17.29:1 AAA
    On white
    1.21:1 Fail

    Background, text · .bg-greenMedium, .after\:bg-greenMedium:after

  • Lime Green

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    98 0 61 25
    On text
    8.64:1 AAA
    On white
    2.43:1 Fail

    Background, text · .bg-greenParakeet, .after\:bg-greenParakeet:after

  • Dark Olive Green

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    24 0 42 64
    On text
    2.84:1 Fail
    On white
    7.39:1 AAA

    Background, text · .bg-greenDark, .after\:bg-greenDark:after

  • Peach Puff

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 21 35 0
    On text
    14.03:1 AAA
    On white
    1.50:1 Fail

    Background, text · .bg-orangeLight, .after\:bg-orangeLight:after

  • Coral

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 53 86 2
    On text
    7.67:1 AAA
    On white
    2.74:1 Fail

    Background, text · .bg-orangeMedium, .after\:bg-orangeMedium:after

  • Brown

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 52 40 60
    On text
    2.04:1 Fail
    On white
    10.28:1 AAA

    Background, text · .bg-orangeDark, .after\:bg-orangeDark:after

Gradients

  • linear-gradient(135deg,#EEEEEE,#EEEEEE 50%,#000000 0,#000000)

  • linear-gradient(90deg,#FFF 0,rgba(255,255,255,0))

  • linear-gradient(270deg,#FFF 0,rgba(255,255,255,0))

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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.

aktiv-grotesk

Aa 100 Aa 900

aktiv-grotesk

Self-hosted · weights 100, 900 · body · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400

bold

System font, or not loaded on this page · 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
Body 100%

Introducing our new soundbar, Beam Ultra, and our latest over ear headphones, Sonos Ace Ultra. Now available.

Paragraph 1rem · 16 px / 18px weight 400

Introducing our new soundbar, Beam Ultra, and our latest over ear headphones, Sonos Ace Ultra. Now available.

Button 16px weight 300

Get started

Link 21px / normal weight 400

Read more about Sonos

Sizes in use

Most common across the site
  • 32pxline 1.2 · 3 rules
  • 21pxline 1.3 · 5 rules
  • 18pxline 1.4 · 8 rules
  • 16pxline 1.5rem · 6 rules
  • 15px2 rules
  • 14pxline 1.25rem · 11 rules
  • 12pxline 1rem · 3 rules
  • 10px2 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

Link

Read our latest news today.

a · #000000

Corner radius

  • 50% · 7×
  • 1.5rem · 4×
  • .25rem · 3×
  • 1rem · 2×
  • 10px · 2×
  • 200px · 2×

Shadows

  • 0 0 #0000,0 0 #0000,0 0 #0000

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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

640
768
769
1023
1024
1440
1536

On a scale of 0 to 1536 px.

Content widths (max-width)

1440 px
1226 px
1024 px
896 px
768 px
640 px

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Notes

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

Notes

  • ● FineThe title is 49 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.

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Questions

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

Questions

What font does Sonos use?
Sonos’s website uses one typeface: aktiv-grotesk (headings and body text), self-hosted.
What are Sonos’s brand colours?
The main colours on sonos.com are Light Coral (#DE8579), Dark Slate Grey (#1C5F4A), Tan (#C59C6E), Red (#D92F18), Fire Brick (#B30911) and Light Golden Rod Yellow (#CEE7B6).
What colour is Sonos’s text and background?
Body text is #000000 on a #FFFFFF background.
Is this Sonos’s official style guide?
No. SiteStyleGuide made it from sonos.com’s public web pages on 27 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with Sonos. 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

sonos-com-tokens.css

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/* sonos.com design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/sonos.com) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #000000;
  --background: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-white: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-black: #000000;
  --colour-charcoal: #2E2E2E;
  --colour-off-white: #EEEEEE;
  --colour-light-coral: #DE8579;
  --colour-dark-slate-grey: #1C5F4A;
  --colour-tan: #C59C6E;
  --colour-red: #D92F18;
  --colour-fire-brick: #B30911;
  --colour-light-golden-rod-yellow: #CEE7B6;
  --colour-green-yellow: #C0FD00;
  --colour-lime-green: #03C04A;
  --colour-dark-olive-green: #465C35;
  --colour-peach-puff: #FEC8A6;
  --colour-coral: #FB7522;
  --colour-brown: #65303D;
  --gradient-1: linear-gradient(135deg,#EEEEEE,#EEEEEE 50%,#000000 0,#000000);
  --gradient-2: linear-gradient(90deg,#FFF 0,rgba(255,255,255,0));
  --gradient-3: linear-gradient(270deg,#FFF 0,rgba(255,255,255,0));

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-body: 'aktiv-grotesk', sans-serif;
  --font-other: 'bold';

  /* Type scale */
  --text-body: 100%;
  --text-p: 1rem;
  --leading-p: 18px;
  --text-button: 16px;
  --text-a: 21px;
  --leading-a: normal;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 50%;
  --radius-2: 1.5rem;
  --radius-3: .25rem;
  --radius-4: 1rem;
  --radius-5: 10px;
  --radius-6: 200px;

  /* Layout (breakpoints can’t be used in media queries as variables; they’re here for reference) */
  --breakpoint-1: 640px;
  --breakpoint-2: 768px;
  --breakpoint-3: 769px;
  --breakpoint-4: 1023px;
  --breakpoint-5: 1024px;
  --breakpoint-6: 1440px;
  --breakpoint-7: 1536px;
  --max-width-1: 1440px;
  --max-width-2: 1226px;
  --max-width-3: 1024px;
  --max-width-4: 896px;
  --max-width-5: 768px;
  --max-width-6: 640px;
}

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Captured from sonos.com on 27 October 2026. SiteStyleGuide isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Sonos; this guide describes the public website for reference.