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un.orgstyle guide

un.org’s website (un.org) uses Helvetica Neue for its headings and body text. Its palette is led by Light Steel Blue (#337AB7), Royal Blue (#265A88) and Forest Green (#419641), with #333333 text on #FFFFFF. Captured from the live site on 26 October 2026.

Website
un.org
Typefaces
Helvetica Neue, Roboto
Palette
4 neutrals, 12 colours, 3 gradients
Captured
26 Oct 2026 · added by @sitestyleguide
https://www.un.org/ Screenshot
Screenshot of the un.org homepage on a desktop screen
Screenshot of un.org 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
Welcome to the United Nations
● 29 / 60 characters
Meta description
Missing
▲ 0 / 160 characters
og:title
Welcome to the United Nations

In search results

un.orghttps://www.un.org/

Welcome to the United Nations

When shared

The image un.org shares with links

un.org

Welcome to the United Nations

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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
  • White 25.7%
  • Off White 14.2%
  • Light Steel Blue 9%
  • Charcoal 6.3%
  • Black 5%
  • Royal Blue 4.1%
  • Forest Green 3.7%
  • Deep Sky Blue 3.7%
  • Dark Orange 3.7%
  • Fire Brick 3.7%
  • Corn Silk 3.7%
  • Honey Dew 3.7%
  • Deep Steel Blue 3.7%
  • Sky Blue 3.5%
  • Medium Sea Green 3.2%
  • Orange 3.2%

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
    12.63:1 AAA
    On white
    —

    Background, text, border · .navbar-default, .panel-default>.panel-heading

  • Off White

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 9
    On text
    10.31:1 AAA
    On white
    1.23:1 Fail

    Background, border · .navbar-default .navbar-nav>.active>a, .panel-default>.panel-heading

  • Charcoal

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

    Text, background, border · .navbar-inverse, body

  • Black

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 0 0 97
    On text
    1.59:1 Fail
    On white
    20.03:1 AAA

    Background, border, text · .navbar-inverse .navbar-nav>.active>a, .navbar-inverse .navbar-nav .open .dropdown-menu .divider

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first
  • Light Steel Blue

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    72 33 0 28
    On text
    2.77:1 Fail
    On white
    4.56:1 AA

    Background, text, border · .panel-primary>.panel-heading, .btn-primary

  • Royal Blue

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    72 34 0 47
    On text
    1.75:1 Fail
    On white
    7.24:1 AAA

    Background, text, border · .btn-primary, .progress-bar

  • Forest Green

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    57 0 57 41
    On text
    3.41:1 AA large
    On white
    3.71:1 AA large

    Background, border · .btn-success, .progress-bar-success

  • Deep Sky Blue

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    80 19 0 18
    On text
    4.73:1 AA
    On white
    2.67:1 Fail

    Background, border · .btn-info, .progress-bar-info

  • Dark Orange

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 37 91 8
    On text
    5.24:1 AA
    On white
    2.41:1 Fail

    Background, border · .btn-warning, .progress-bar-warning

  • Fire Brick

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 76 78 24
    On text
    2.22:1 Fail
    On white
    5.69:1 AA

    Background, border · .btn-danger, .progress-bar-danger

  • Corn Silk

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 2 10 1
    On text
    11.84:1 AAA
    On white
    1.07:1 Fail

    Background, text · .panel-warning>.panel-heading, .alert-warning

  • Honey Dew

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    7 0 10 6
    On text
    10.58:1 AAA
    On white
    1.19:1 Fail

    Background, text · .panel-success>.panel-heading, .alert-success

  • Deep Steel Blue

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    72 34 0 36
    On text
    2.31:1 Fail
    On white
    5.47:1 AA

    Background, border, text · .panel-primary>.panel-heading, .navbar .navbar-nav .open .dropdown-menu>.active>a

  • Sky Blue

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    59 14 0 13
    On text
    6.04:1 AA
    On white
    2.09:1 Fail

    Background, text, border · .btn-info, .progress-bar-info

  • Medium Sea Green

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    50 0 50 28
    On text
    5.09:1 AA
    On white
    2.48:1 Fail

    Background, text · .btn-success, .progress-bar-success

  • Orange

    HEX
    RGB
    HSL
    OKLCH
    CMYK
    0 28 68 6
    On text
    6.49:1 AA
    On white
    1.95:1 Fail

    Background, text · .btn-warning, .progress-bar-warning

Gradients

  • linear-gradient(top,#337ab7 0,#2e6da4 100%)

  • linear-gradient(top,#f5f5f5 0,#e8e8e8 100%)

  • linear-gradient(45deg,rgba(255,255,255,.15) 25%,transparent 25%,transparent 50%,rgba(255,255,255,.15) 50%,rgba(255,255,255,.15) 75%,transparent 75%,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.

Helvetica Neue

Aa 400

Helvetica Neue

System font, or not loaded on this page · weights 400 · body · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 100 Aa 900

Roboto

Google Fonts · weights 100, 300, 400, 500, 700, 900 · body

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

Type scale

From the site’s CSS · root 10 px
Heading 1 36px / 1.1 weight 500

un.org

Heading 2 30px / 1.1 weight 500

Welcome to the United Nations

Heading 3 24px / 1.1 weight 500

Welcome to the United Nations

Heading 4 18px / 1.1 weight 500

Welcome to the United Nations

Heading 5 14px / 1.1 weight 500

Welcome to the United Nations

Heading 6 12px / 1.1 weight 500

Welcome to the United Nations

Body 14px / 1.42857143 Roboto

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Paragraph 21px weight 200

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Small 85%

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Link 12px / 1.5 weight 400

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Sizes in use

Most common across the site
  • 36px3 rules
  • 21pxline inherit · 3 rules
  • 20px4 rules
  • 18pxline 1.3333333 · 10 rules
  • 16pxline 1.4 · 4 rules
  • 14pxline 1.42857143 · 9 rules
  • 12pxline 1.5 · 13 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

Button

Get started

.btn-primary · #337AB7

Link

Read our latest news today.

a · #337AB7

Corner radius

  • 4px · 24×
  • 6px · 10×
  • 3px · 8×
  • 4px 4px 0 0 · 3×
  • 10px · 3×
  • 50% · 1×

Shadows

  • 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.075)
  • 0 6px 12px rgba(0,0,0,.175)
  • 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.05)
  • 0 3px 9px rgba(0,0,0,.5)

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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

450
767
768
991
992
1199
1200
1600

On a scale of 0 to 1600 px.

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Notes

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

Notes

  • ● FineThe title is 29 characters, short enough to show in full in search results.
  • ▲ CheckThere is no meta description, so search engines will pick text from the page.
  • ▲ CheckThe page doesn’t declare its language (the lang attribute on <html>).

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Questions

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

Questions

What font does un.org use?
un.org’s website uses two typefaces: Helvetica Neue (headings and body text), a system font; Roboto, google Fonts.
What are un.org’s brand colours?
The main colours on un.org are Light Steel Blue (#337AB7), Royal Blue (#265A88), Forest Green (#419641), Deep Sky Blue (#2AABD2), Dark Orange (#EB9316) and Fire Brick (#C12E2A).
What colour is un.org’s text and background?
Body text is #333333 on a #FFFFFF background.
Is this un.org’s official style guide?
No. SiteStyleGuide made it from un.org’s public web pages on 26 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with un.org. 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

un-org-tokens.css

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/* un.org design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/un.org) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #333333;
  --background: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-white: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-off-white: #E8E8E8;
  --colour-charcoal: #333333;
  --colour-black: #080808;
  --colour-light-steel-blue: #337AB7;
  --colour-royal-blue: #265A88;
  --colour-forest-green: #419641;
  --colour-deep-sky-blue: #2AABD2;
  --colour-dark-orange: #EB9316;
  --colour-fire-brick: #C12E2A;
  --colour-corn-silk: #FCF8E3;
  --colour-honey-dew: #DFF0D8;
  --colour-deep-steel-blue: #2E6DA4;
  --colour-sky-blue: #5BC0DE;
  --colour-medium-sea-green: #5CB85C;
  --colour-orange: #F0AD4E;
  --gradient-1: linear-gradient(top,#337ab7 0,#2e6da4 100%);
  --gradient-2: linear-gradient(top,#f5f5f5 0,#e8e8e8 100%);
  --gradient-3: linear-gradient(45deg,rgba(255,255,255,.15) 25%,transparent 25%,transparent 50%,rgba(255,255,255,.15) 50%,rgba(255,255,255,.15) 75%,transparent 75%,transparent);

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

  /* Type scale */
  --text-h1: 36px;
  --leading-h1: 1.1;
  --text-h2: 30px;
  --leading-h2: 1.1;
  --text-h3: 24px;
  --leading-h3: 1.1;
  --text-h4: 18px;
  --leading-h4: 1.1;
  --text-h5: 14px;
  --leading-h5: 1.1;
  --text-h6: 12px;
  --leading-h6: 1.1;
  --text-body: 14px;
  --leading-body: 1.42857143;
  --text-p: 21px;
  --text-small: 85%;
  --text-a: 12px;
  --leading-a: 1.5;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 4px;
  --radius-2: 6px;
  --radius-3: 3px;
  --radius-4: 4px 4px 0 0;
  --radius-5: 10px;
  --radius-6: 50%;

  /* Layout (breakpoints can’t be used in media queries as variables; they’re here for reference) */
  --breakpoint-1: 450px;
  --breakpoint-2: 767px;
  --breakpoint-3: 768px;
  --breakpoint-4: 991px;
  --breakpoint-5: 992px;
  --breakpoint-6: 1199px;
  --breakpoint-7: 1200px;
  --breakpoint-8: 1600px;
}

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Captured from un.org on 26 October 2026. SiteStyleGuide isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by un.org; this guide describes the public website for reference.