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

Unofficial style guide

thetimes.comstyle guide

thetimes.com’s website (thetimes.com) uses Arial for its headings and body text. Its palette is led by Red (#FF0000) and Dodger Blue (#3498DB), with #333333 text on #F9F9F9. Captured from the live site on 30 October 2026.

Typefaces
Arial
Palette
2 neutrals, 2 colours
Captured
30 Oct 2026 · added by @sitestyleguide
https://www.thetimes.com/ Screenshot
Screenshot of the thetimes.com homepage on a desktop screen
Screenshot of thetimes.com on a 1440 px desktop screen, 30 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
Verifying Device
● 16 / 60 characters
Meta description
Missing
▲ 0 / 160 characters
Language
en

In search results

thetimes.comhttps://www.thetimes.com/

Verifying Device

When shared

No og:image, so no picture

thetimes.com

Verifying Device

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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 (#333333) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used
  • Off White 58.5%
  • Red 19.5%
  • Dodger Blue 12.2%
  • Charcoal 9.8%

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
  • Off White

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 2
    On text
    12.00:1 AAA
    On white
    1.05:1 Fail

    Background, text · body, #verification-retry

  • Charcoal

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 80
    On text
    —
    On white
    12.63:1 AAA

    Text · .text

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first
  • Red

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 100 100 0
    On text
    3.16:1 AA large
    On white
    4.00:1 AA large

    Text · #verification-error, #no-js-msg

  • Dodger Blue

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    76 31 0 14
    On text
    4.01:1 AA large
    On white
    3.15:1 AA large

    Background · #verification-retry

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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.

Arial

Aa 400

Arial

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

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

Type scale

From the site’s CSS
Body — Arial

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Sizes in use

Most common across the site
  • 19px1 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

  • 4px · 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

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 16 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 thetimes.com use?
thetimes.com’s website uses one typeface: Arial (headings and body text), a system font.
What are thetimes.com’s brand colours?
The main colours on thetimes.com are Red (#FF0000), Dodger Blue (#3498DB), Off White (#F9F9F9) and Charcoal (#333333).
What colour is thetimes.com’s text and background?
Body text is #333333 on a #F9F9F9 background.
Is this thetimes.com’s official style guide?
No. SiteStyleGuide made it from thetimes.com’s public web pages on 30 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with thetimes.com. 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

thetimes-com-tokens.css

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/* thetimes.com design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/thetimes.com) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #333333;
  --background: #F9F9F9;
  --colour-off-white: #F9F9F9;
  --colour-charcoal: #333333;
  --colour-red: #FF0000;
  --colour-dodger-blue: #3498DB;

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-body: 'Arial', sans-serif;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 4px;
}

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Other websites using Arial as their main typeface
Websites whose lead colour is closest to thetimes.com’s

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